Pioneering research on Alzheimer’s disease prevention

The Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC) is the research institute of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. It is devoted to the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and the study of cognitive functions affected in healthy and pathological aging.

ABOUT BBRC

Highlights

ALFA STUDY

More than 2,700 healthy research participants want to change the history of the disease.

CLINICAL TRIALS

Discover the innovative clinical studies carried out at BBRC to prevent Alzheimer’s.

PUBLICATIONS

Check out the scientific production of BBRC programs on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Memory.

Research Heroes

“Every time I enter this center, I have the feeling that I will take part in the solution for Alzheimer’s”

ENCARNA Research participant of the Alfa Study

“It is my duty do whatever I can for the research against Alzheimer’s. I will not probably benefit from the solution, but maybe my grandchildren will”.

JUAN PEDRO Research participant of the Alfa Study

LATEST NEWS

30 May | 2019

Eider Arenaza-Urquijo has been elected Communication Chair of a Professional Interest Area of ISTAART

She will participate in the ‘Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors’ PIA of the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment, created by the Alzheimer’s Association

Researchers Raffaele Cacciaglia, Juan Domingo Gispert and José Luis Molinuevo

28 May | 2019

New finding on the gene conferring the highest risk for Alzheimer’s and its link with cognition and brain morphology

The Ɛ4 variant of the APOE gene modifies the association between cognitive performance and brain structure in middle-aged individuals at risk for developing the disease, research led by the BBRC shows

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