Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

Neural signature of attentional reorienting

Spectral signature of attentional reorienting in the human brain, published in the journal NeuroImage, reports some of the main findings of the research project 159/16 - Unraveling the neural mechanisms of human memory decisions with magnetoencephalography, carried out by Carlo Sestieri and Stefania Della Penna, with the financial support of the BIAL Foundation.

Bestseller of Luís Portela in audiobook

The bestseller “Ser Espiritual - Da Evidência à Ciência”, by the Chairman of the BIAL Foundation, Luís Portela, is now available in audiobook (Portuguese version only). In this talking book, with narration by the author, Luís Portela crosses traditional knowledge with the results of recent scientific research and suggests a prior depriving of concepts and prejudices so that the reader can see the Universe from his spiritual self of a harmonious, consistent and useful form for future life.

New mechanisms for preventing tau protein aggregation

In the scope of the research project 343/14 - Proteotoxic insults and synaptic dysfunction in the aging brain, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Cláudio Gomes published the paper “Dynamic interactions and Ca2+-binding modulate the holdase-type chaperone activity of S100B preventing tau aggregation and seeding” in the journal Nature Communications.