Dream and daydream: differences and similarities

Did you know that daydreams reflect events from the previous two days and “night” dreams resemble a fictional plot?

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”.

Results of a project funded by the BIAL foundation presented in Neuron

The article Postingestive Modulation of Food Seeking Depends on Vagus-Mediated Dopamine Neuron Activity has been published in the journal Neuron. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 176/10 - Dopaminergic regulation of dietary learning in humans and rodents, supported by the BIAL Foundation and led by Albino Oliveira-Maia.

Researchers supported by the BIAL foundation published in The Journal of Headache and Pain

Isabel Pavão Martins et al. published in the scope of the research project 63/10 - Mindful ageing. Avoiding age related cognitive decline, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Cognitive aging in migraine sufferers is associated with more subjective complaints but similar age-related decline: a 5-year longitudinal study in The Journal of Headache and Pain.

Cell Reports presents results of a project supported by BIAL Foundation

The research team of project 253/14 - The impact of lipid signaling modulation in cognition, led by Tiago Gil Oliveira, published in Cell Reports the paper Phospholipase D1 Ablation Disrupts Mouse Longitudinal Hippocampal Axis Organization and Functioning.