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The production of new astrocytes in the adult human brain may contribute to an improvement in depressive and anxious behavior in patients with neuropsychiatric diseases, as well as to the restitution of neural cells in the hippocampus, a brain region important for the control of emotional and cognitive behaviors. These are the main conclusions of a study carried out by a research team from the ICVS, and recently published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

Egídio Torrado and Consuelo Micheli, researchers at the ICVS at the UMinho School of Medicine, were awarded the Research Grant 2024 from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) for their work on tuberculosis.

A team from the Institute for Research in Life and Health Sciences (ICVS) at the University of Minho created software that converts echocardiography from two to three dimensions, which could prove decisive in evaluating patients in emergency and intensive care.

Ana João Rodrigues, researcher at the ICVS at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho, was elected to join the Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET) of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), which begins work with the first meeting at the end of August.

More than 170 participants attended the ICVS Retreat 2024 at the Monastery of Tibães in Braga, between the 4th and 5th of July.  The program included presentations, debates, poster sessions, well-being and team building activities.

A team of researchers from ICVS recently published an article in the journal “Neurobiology of Aging” that addresses how the presence of psychosis indicates a more negative prognosis and greater cognitive decline in patients diagnosed with the disease of Alzheimer's.

More than 570,000 adults live with asthma in Portugal, a disease that has a prevalence of 7.1%. Of these thousands of people, almost seven in 10 (68%) do not have their disease under control, show data from “EPI-ASTHMA - Prevalence and characterization of people with asthma, according to the severity of the disease, in Portugal”, a study developed in collaboration by ICVS, CINTESIS of the University of Porto and AstraZeneca Portugal.

Vitória Baptista, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the Centre of Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS) and the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) at the University of Minho, has been awarded an “EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant” and a “FEMS Research and Training Grant".

ICVS researcher and employee of the University of Minho School of Medicine, Magda Castelhano-Carlos, was re-elected President of the Portuguese Society of Laboratory Animal Sciences (SPCAL).

In a work, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the Life and Health Science Research Institute (ICVS) at the University of Minho, in Portugal, used animal models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 or Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD) to test a promising drug: the compound tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA for short).