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”.

Luís Portela awarded with the Health Services Management Award

Luís Portela, Chairman of the BIAL Foundation, was awarded on October 23 with the Health Services Management Award, given by the Portuguese Medical Association's Competence in Health Services Management, as a tribute for his life as an entrepreneur.

Paper published in high impact journal Molecular Psychiatry

In the scope of the research project 427/14 - Gliogenesis control of brain neuroplasticity, neurophysiology and cognitive function, supported by the BIAL Foundation, and carried out by the principal investigador Luísa Pinto, from the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, it was published the paper Hippocampal cytogenesis abrogation impairs inter-regional communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and promotes the time-dependent manifestation of emotional and cognitive deficits in the high impact journal Molecular Psychiatry.

Analysis of individual variability in eye movements

Maurizio Corbetta and Andrea Zangrossi, team members of the research project 361/18 - When style matters: do oculomotor fingerprint and brain dynamics explain visual exploration and memory strategies?, analyze individual variability in eye movements when healthy participants view images of natural scenes.