We are an electrophysiology group, which means that we record the electrical activity that our nervous system generates and we relate this activity with the actions created by the experimental subject. With these operations, we expect to make a progress in understanding how the nervous system works.
We use different experimental models: from little animals, such as mice, to humans. We register the activity of an individual neuron with implanted electrodes in the brain, the simultaneous activity of thousands cells with electrodes placed over the head or/and over the muscles.
We are specialised in the use of non-invasive neuromodulation techniques (magnet or electrical stimulation) which allow us to increase or decrease the activity of concrete areas of the cerebral cortex, while we study the effect in other areas. These techniques, that we usually employ as tools in our experiments, are now used in a spin off created by our group as a treatment for several patologies.
Our investigation interests include:
- Non invasive brain stimulation in epilepsy models
- Role of thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuit in visual processing and its relationship with atention processes
- Motor control in children with neurodevelopment alterations (or risk of suffering them) and possible therapeutical strategies and contextualization in their environment
- Importance of feedback systems of working memory within different structures which form part of the visual system
- The treatment of epilepsy with static magnetic fields of moderate intensity
- Study of fatigue in activities of daily living
- Evaluation of therapeutical potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in tobacco addiction
- Food and cognitive functioning
