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The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) at the University of Granada, in collaboration with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, has conducted a study to investigate the relationship between stress and the physical and mental quality of life of caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and the performance of these children in activities of daily living.

Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has launched six novel and exciting multidisciplinary collaborative projects in Psychology and Neuroscience, which tackle frontier questions across areas.

As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting six postdoctoral researchers for the implementation of six new collaborative projects between different research groups at CIMCYC

A new investigation, conducted by Aranzazu Vinas and Helena Matute of the University of Deusto, Bilbao, and Fernando Blanco of the CIMCYC at the University of Granada, highlights the dangers of incorrectly classifying patients. These dangers range from fostering the unfair distribution of healthcare resources to modifying the perceived efficacy of treatments.

The Master in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience invites to the CIMCYC Talks  "Plasticity of the attentive mind" with Dr. Heleen Slagter, researcher from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 

If you would like to enroll in a PhD program at the CIMCYC, ”la Caixa” Foundation grants 60 fellowships for researchers of any nationality who wish to pursue a doctorate at research centres in Spain or Portugal.

The Master in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience invites to the CIMCYC Talks "The dynamics of musical interactions: From caregiver-infant bonds to collective audience experiences" with Laurel Trainor, researcher from McMaster University, Canada.

The Center for Research and Community Action at the University of Seville (CESPYD), the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), and members of the Human Behavior Modeling and Measurement research group at the Mind Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) at the University of Granada (UGR) have developed the first study on mental health in Foreigner Internment Centers (CIEs) in Spain.

The University of Granada (UGR) has secured funding in the national call for Research Projects in the Field of Artificial Intelligence 2025 to develop NeurSpeechXAI, a project that seeks to create speech neuroprostheses capable of decoding a person's communicative intention directly from their brain activity. The initiative, led by José Andrés González, a researcher in the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communications at the Higher Technical School of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, received 478,900 euros. It was among the 69 proposals funded out of a total of 840 applications and is one of only three awarded to the UGR.

A scientific team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) at the UGR has studied how gender violence affects the verbal memory of women survivors