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”.

UK, Portugal and USA were the countries with most supported projects

Did you know that the United Kingdom, Portugal and USA were the countries with most research projects supported by the BIAL Foundation over time?

The BIAL Foundation has been present in 29 countries

Did you know that the BIAL Foundation has already supported 775 research projects from 29 countries? In the latest edition of the Grants programme for Scientific Research 2020/21, 3 countries joined the list - Denmark, Finland and New Zealand.

The effects of long-term meditation

The research team of the project Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation, coordinated by Antonino Raffone, published in Scientific Reports the paper Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise.