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”.

Cancer immunotherapy research wins the first edition of the new BIAL Foundation prize, worth 300,000 Euros

A research project led by the immunologist Caetano Reis e Sousa, who leads the Francis Crick Institute's Immunobiology Laboratory in London, has won the first edition of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine. The prize was established by the BIAL Foundation with a value of 300,000 euros and recognises biomedical findings of outstanding importance.

The journal Current Opinion in Neurobiology published results of project supported by the BIAL Foundation

Carlos Ribeiro published in the scope of project 279/16 - Harnessing the power of closed-loop neuronal control to identify the circuit basis of decision making, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Nutrient homeostasis — translating internal states to behavior in the journal Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in the journal Nature Communications

The research team of the project 261/18 - Phenomenological experience and neurophysiological correlates of shamanic trance in healthy individuals, led by Olivia Gosseries, published in Nature Communications the paper Behavioural and brain responses in cognitive trance: A TMS-EEG case study.