In this final project, a business model of a mobile application that helps to control the
arterial hypertension (a chronic disease that unfortunately affects between 16 % and 37
% of the world population) is presented ...
3D printing seems to be the tool that will lead personalize medicine in the near
future; combined with the potential of medical imaging, now it is possible to use
the images of each patient to create 3D specific printed ...
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart
disease, and one of the first to be successfully repaired by congenital heart surgeons.
Even though the long-term outcome is favourable in ...
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects 50 million people worldwide. Some of
these patients are pharmacoresistant and continue to suffer from seizures even under
antiepileptic drugs treatment. For these patients, ...
Today, there are approximately 75 million wheelchair users worldwide. From
this collective, there is a percentage of people, the severely disabled, whose motor
capabilities below the neck are damaged, and despite the ...
Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is related to cognitive function and seems to have
an important role in decision-making. After training, rhesus macaques can serve as a good
model to study choice behaviour. During ...
Small aggregates of 300-500 mouse embryonic stem cells are able to self-organize into polarized structures that exhibit collective behavior that mirrors those observed in early mouse embryos. This includes symmetry breaking, ...
The study of Place Cells, hippocampal neurons tuned to spatial locations in the environment,
is central to elucidate how the brain encodes and retrieves spatial information.
Advances in genetic and imaging technologies ...
The characterization of neuronal activity is challenging due to the intrinsic complexity of
The brain and its dynamics. It is important to understand the activity in brain functions
and also in brain diseases. Epilepsy ...
Osteonecrosis of the femoral is a musculoskeletal disorder that has been described as
a loss of subchondral bone integrity caused by an irreversible loss of osteocytes. Although there
exist several pathogenic mechanisms ...
Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disease, imposing an important toll in terms of mortality and morbidity, especially among young subjects. A third of epileptic patients do not fully respond to anticonvulsants ...
Introduction: Hip osteoarthritis is a pathology related to hip-cartilage degeneration. Although the etiology of this disease is not well defined, it is known that age is a determinant risk factor. However, hip arthritis ...
This project aims at building an automatic vessel segmentation pipeline to be used in medical images. Such a goal is shared by many disciplines within medicine, facing considerable amounts of images containing tubular ...
The standard assessment of myocardial perfusion has several limitations since it is mainly based on its relative distribution. In the clinical practice, the evaluation of perfusion by using Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging ...
Nowadays, healthcare professionals face many challenges providing care while managing expenses. The capability to track the location of patients and medical equipment in real time and over time gives the hospital the ability ...
Historically, declarative memory has been indirectly studied using spatial navigation experiments in rodents. Theories of hippocampal function expanded with the discovery of neural ensembles (place cells, grid cells) able ...
Over the last ten years, knowledge management (KM) has penetrated increasingly in organisational and management processes in healthcare as a concept and a set of good practices in order to systematically identify, capture ...
The biology is complex and there is a sort of organisms that interacts worldwide. In that big system, there are the viruses, organisms that are not “alive” while they are out of the host organism. When viruses enter inside ...
Nowadays, it exist the necessity to understand the intrinsic mechanism that governs stem cells which constitutes a regeneration system. The expression of genes, transcription factors, microRNAs and pathways acting as a ...
Plasmids are small double-stranded DNA molecules that are present in a high variety of bacteria. They usually encode non-essential proteins, such as antibiotic resistances or toxins, which can become an advantage during ...