Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

Maria de Sousa Award is accepting applications until May 31

The Portuguese Medical Association and the BIAL Foundation are promoting the second edition of the Maria de Sousa Award, launched in 2020 to honour the memory of the physician and great researcher Maria de Sousa, a victim of Covid-19.

How motivated behavior is influenced by reinforcement/reward?

Carina Soares-Cunha, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 175/20 – The role of nucleus accumbens in the perception of natural rewards, concluded that, in rodents, the optogenetic modullation of the D2-MSN-VP projections has different effects in the distinct phases of motivated behavior.

The BIAL Foundation has already supported a total of 775 projects in the domains of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology?

Did you know that in the scope of its Grants programme for Scientific Research, since 1994, the BIAL Foundation has already supported 775 projects in the domains of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology?