Marta Navarrete Llinás (born 12, September 1980 Salvaleón ) is a Spanish neuroscientist. She is senior investigator at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. She won the Olympus Prize for Young Researchers.
Life
She studied at the University of Extremadura. and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Research
She is working on the study of the role played by astrocytes (the most abundant cells in the central nervous system ) in memory and learning processes and their implications, both physiological and pathological , in brain function.
One of her main achievements is the contribution to the development of a new concept in neuroscience. Because brain physiology does not result exclusively from neuronal activity but from the concerted activity of astroneuronal networks, revealing a greater computational capacity of the brain in learning and memory processes. Astrocytes, ignored until recently, serve as a bridge between neurons that are not directly connected.
What has been discovered so far may represent a fundamental change in the treatment of everything from brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, in which the connection and communication between cells is thought to be disrupted, to drug addiction. drugs, as well as increasing knowledge of the fundamental processes in the functioning of the nervous system, identifying cellular and molecular elements as targets for the development of therapeutic strategies in the treatment of the nervous system.
