Addictive disorders are a complex psychiatric condition with great personal and social impact. In Spain, it is estimated that they affect 5% of the population, with an estimated economic cost of 1,500 euros per person per year. Now, an editorial published in the journal Adicciones reviews the studies carried out combining neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques as a therapeutic alternative for...
Zurich Seguros combines sport and solidarity by setting up a charity running project, promoted by Z Zurich Foundation. Zurich Seguros will sponsor 17 races in the form of marathons, half marathons and women's races in different cities. For each city, Zurich Foundation will choose an organization to which it will give 1 euro for every participant that reaches the finish line. Institut Guttmann has...
Representatives of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, accompanied by members of the Catalan Federation of Adapted Sport (FCEDF) and the Catalan Sports Federation of Cerebral Palsy (FECPC), met with hospital professionals to present the Olympic Relay project. The aim of this project is to help new talent to emerge among people with a disability who wants to dedicate themselves to sport...
The Conseller of Social Rights of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Hon. Mr. Carles Campuzano, has visited the centre that the Institut Guttmann has in Barcelona, in the district of La Sagrera, which includes the Institute of Brain Health and Neurorehabilitation Guttmann Barcelona and the apartments for the promotion of independent living for people with disabilities, Guttmann Barcelona Life...
The Institut Guttmann will start in the coming weeks a study, funded by La Marató de TV3, to assess the feasibility of the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at home and without medical staff for cases of resistant depression. The project, led by the researcher Gabriele Cattaneo and in collaboration with the principal investigator of the BBHI and professor of the Faculty...
Throughout December, 343,598 customers of the Bonpreu and Esclat supermarket chain made a donation in solidarity with the Fundació Institut Guttmann. The contribution was made thanks to all the people who, when paying with a bank card, rounded up the final amount and voluntarily decided to make this donation. The amount raised will go to the project "The Heart of Guttmann", which has already begun...
At the Institut Guttmann, once again this year, we have celebrated the arrival of the festive season with Christmas celebrations for everyone. At the neurorehabilitation hospital, patients, relatives, and professionals have shared a very pleasant afternoon with a very participative magic show that has made everyone laugh. Also the inpatients enjoyed the volunteers' parade, who once again this year...
The PARTICIPA project held the first meeting of its Reference Group on December 1st, whose main objective was to develop the qualitative research of the project and gather information about the experience of the volunteers to define new lines of action. The meeting was held in Guttmann Barcelona and was attended by the whole team and a group of 13 volunteers, selected according to different...
For the second year in a row we have the collaboration of Espinaler and we have made two proposals of Christmas gifts for people and companies who want to show their solidarity with the Friends of the Institut Guttmann and to wish their family, friends, colleagues and workers a Merry Christmas, while helping us to make our hospital a more comfortable place, to carry out innovative care projects...
A Institut Guttmann research project has been selected in the latest edition of La Marató de TV3, held in December 2021 and dedicated to mental health. The selected teams received their awards at a ceremony held on 3 November. The project awarded is "Non-invasive home-based brain stimulation to treat treatment-resistant depression: feasibility, efficacy and biomarkers of treatment response", led...
