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”.

Paper published in high impact journal

In the scope of the research project 44/16 - Inducing and measuring plasticity in response control mechanisms in the human brain, supported by the BIAL Foundation and carried out by the principal investigator Alejandra Sel, from the University of Oxford, it was published the paper Increasing and decreasing interregional brain coupling increases and decreases oscillatory activity in the human brain in the high impact journal PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The impact of neuromodulators on exploitative and exploratory actions

Dichotomous dopaminergic and noradrenergic neural states mediate distinct aspects of exploitative behavioral states is the more recent paper stemming from the research project 413/14 - The role of dopamine in behavioral exploration and action selection led by the principal investigator Aaron Koralek and supported by the BIAL Foundation.

University of Lisbon awards Doctor Honoris Causa degree to Luís Portela

The Chairman of the BIAL Foundation, Luís Portela, was distinguished with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Lisbon, under a proposal from the Faculty of Medicine. The ceremony took place on September 9, in the Salão Nobre of the Rectory of the University of Lisbon, and can be watched on the University’s Youtube.