UAB to host forum on brain health and neurorestoration

The forum is entitled Brain Health and Neurorestoration and aims to promote the creation of international consortiums which can work together in the preparation and presentation of proposals for future calls in Europe. Its working areas include mental health and neurorehabilitation, cognitive stimulation, non-invasive monitoring of human activities, robotics applied to neurorestoration and bioengineering focused on achieving personal autonomy.

The meeting has been organised by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Spanish Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Bioengeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and the Institut Guttmann.

“Ideas will be presented to find solutions to problems related to neurodegenerative diseases, mental disorders and medullary lesions. All these disorders become worse with the increase in age of the population and their extremely high economic, medical and social cost”, explains Jordi Aguiló, UAB researcher and co-organiser of the forum.

Researchers from Spain, France, Italy, England, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia and Korea will be participating in the forum. Some thirty European firms will also be present, as well as representatives of the project COWIN (Converging resources to support the value creation in Europe of microsystems and smart miniaturised systems research projects). The project, financed by the European Union, makes it possible to commercialise the results of collaborative research projects conducted in the field of Miniature Intelligent Systems.