Author Archives: Raúl Delgado-Morales

Raúl Delgado-Morales holds a PhD in Neuroscience. He completed his doctoral studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona working on the field of epigenetics on depression. After that and thanks to a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, he continued his research as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, focused on Alzheimer’s disease. After 4 years in Germany, currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), in Barcelona (Spain) on the field of neuroepigenomics.

Website:http://www.rauldm.es
Twitter:@drrauldm

Getting to know Rett syndrome #RareDiseaseDay

Raúl Delgado-Morales February 29, 2016

Today February 29th is celebrated worldwide the Rare Disease Day. This year’ slogan is “Join us in making the voice of rare diseases heard”. So this is my small contribution to such campaign, essential nowadays to increase support to all […]

It’s all your parents’ fault (II): how Darth Vader programmed Luke to have depression

Raúl Delgado-Morales March 16, 2015

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering”.
Grand Master Yoda
This is the second chapter of a series of 2 articles that pretends to illustrate […]

Alzheimer’s disease: 3D culture system brings hope to drug discovery

Raúl Delgado-Morales October 29, 2014

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most devastating human pathologies. AD is the leading cause of age-related dementia and currently afflicts more than 44 million persons worldwide (World Alzheimer Report 2014). It is characterized by a cognitive […]

It is all your parents’ fault (I): how mummy alters your brain development

Raúl Delgado-Morales October 10, 2014

‘Yo soy yo y mi circumstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo’
José Ortega y Gasset (Meditaciones del Quijote, 1914)
In my first article for Mapping Ignorance I stated that “destiny” was an […]

Epigenetic alterations in Alzheimer’s disease, nature vs. nurture on the path to dementia

Raúl Delgado-Morales May 30, 2014

Nowadays there are still people that believe in destiny. However the scientific community more and more is bringing light to that subject showing that although the genetic material could program ourselves to suffer some pathologies, the day-to-day experiences are the […]