Publications
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Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders: Convergence of preclinical and clinical evidence
(2015)
Neuropsychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and etc., represent a serious medical and socioeconomic problems. These diseases are often accompanied by impairments of cognitive function, e.g., ...
Cognitive Event-Related Potentials in Psychopathology: New Experimental and Clinical Perspectives
(2017)
A common feature of many psychopathological states (going from anxiety, depression to schizophrenia or addictions) is to show cognitive alterations. These cognitive deficits clearly impact on the onset of clinical symptoms. ...
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory
(2017)
Visual working memory allows us to temporarily maintain and manipulate visual information in order to solve a task. The study of the brain mechanisms underlying this function began more than half a century ago, with Scoville ...
The Emerging Discipline of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
(2015)
In 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with leaders from the pharmaceutical industry and the academic community, published a white paper describing the emerging discipline of Quantitative Systems ...
Emerging Functions of Septins
(2017)
Together with the microfilament, microtubule and intermediate-filament networks, septins constitute an integral part of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Historically identified as proteins critical for septum formation in the ...
Emerging Enterobacteriaceae Infections: Antibiotic Resistance and Novel Treatment Options
(2017)
Enterobacteriaceae are spread worldwide and the diseases they cause may be fatal especially in immunocompromised patients. Moreover, the high prevalence of ESBL producing Salmonella and Shigella species diseases worldwide ...
Emerging immune functions of non-hematopoietic stromal cells
(2014)
The development and function of the immune system is dependent on interactions between haematopoietic cells and non-hematopoietic stromal cells. The non-hematopoietic stromal cells create the microenvironment in which the ...
Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines
(2017)
Plant gene transfer achieved in the early ‘80s paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of gene engineering to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For ...
Engineering Synthetic Metabolons: From Metabolic Modelling to Rational Design of Biosynthetic Devices
(2016)
The discipline of Synthetic Biology has recently emerged at the interface of biology and engineering. The definition of Synthetic Biology has been dynamic over time ever since, which exemplifies that the field is rapidly ...