Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Schizophrenia research in 2026: report from the annual meeting of the Schizophrenia International Research Society

Abstract SIRS 2026, held under the theme “Schizophrenia Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,” brought together researchers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to take stock of a field whose tools for measuring, predicting, and intervening in psychosis have e...

Mindfulness meditation does not make people more present-biased

One essential aspect of mindfulness practice is to help people focus on the present moment. Although this present-focused attention has been linked to several positive outcomes, it also raises the possibility that mindfulness could increase present bias, with potentially negative...

Returns to Caring? Health and Well‐Being Effects of Subsidized Long‐Term Care

ABSTRACT We estimate the health and well‐being effects of subsidized access to long‐term care (LTC). Our analysis exploits the staggered implementation of Spain's 2007 System of Autonomy and Care for Dependent People (SAAD), which expanded publicly funded and universal LTC subsid...

An Intersectional Theory of Gendered Political Violence Under Sectarian Systems

Abstract Political violence against women is often analyzed primarily through gender, leaving underexplored how other systems of domination shape its production and enforcement. This article develops an intersectional feminist institutionalist framework to explain how patriarchal...

Targeted DNA Sequencing Reveals Distinct Rare-Variant Profiles in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Chronic Lung Diseases

The mechanisms underlying the development and severity of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) remain poorly understood. To investigate the contribution of genetic factors, we performed targeted sequencing...

Everyday climate change as an embodied, intersectional, and situated experience: Insights from Catalonia

Climate change is not a distant risk but an everyday lived experience. This article examines climate change in Catalonia, Spain by focusing on daily routines, relationships, and emotions. In doing so, it moves beyond predominantly abstract, technical, and quantitative approaches...

The Role of Sex Ratios in Refugee Inflows and Gendered Host Attitudes: A Vignette Survey Experiment in a German State

This study investigates how the sex ratio of refugee populations can shape attitudes toward refugee inflows in a German state. We use an online vignette survey experiment to examine respondents’ nonacceptance of refugee arrivals and four types of perceived threats: job competitio...

Efficient and robust control with spikes that constrain free energy

Animal brains exhibit remarkable efficiency in perception and action, while being robust to both external and internal perturbations. The means by which brains accomplish this remains, for now, poorly understood, hindering our understanding of animal and human cognition, as well...

Targeting food addiction through an intensive energy-reduced Mediterranean diet lifestyle intervention: evidence from the 3-year PREDIMED-plus trial

Food addiction (FA) has been proposed as a behavioural phenotype linked to obesity, potentially influencing adherence and response to lifestyle interventions. Its role within long-term, multicomponent weight-loss programmes remains unclear. This study evaluated the impact of an i...

Federated EGA in the European and Global Human Data Ecosystem

This Federated EGA in the European and Global Human Data Ecosystem white paper sets out our vision for the future role of Federated EGA (FEGA) in supporting secure, responsible and FAIR reuse of controlled-access human data. It describes how FEGA has developed into an operational...

Speak to a Protein: An Interactive Multimodal Co-Scientist for Protein Analysis

Abstract Building a working mental model of a protein typically requires weeks of reading, cross-referencing crystal and predicted structures, and inspecting ligand complexes, an effort that is slow, unevenly accessible, and often requires specialized computational skills. We int...

Mental health and substance use in Europe: initial steps towards a common European approach

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Comorbid substance use and other mental health disorders contribute to more than one million years lived with disability in Europe according to the Global Burden of Disease study. They require a comprehensive approach, yet, in Europe, there is considerable va...

Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach

Abstract Social behaviour is a heritable trait linked to well-being and mental health, yet it varies across social context, including social domains, informants and development, which may shape its underlying genomic architecture. Here, we conducted a genome-wide meta-regression...

Fluctuation–dissipation of the Kuramoto model on fruit-fly connectomes

We investigate the distance from equilibrium using the Kuramoto model via the degree of fluctuation–dissipation violation as the consequence of different levels of edge weight anisotropies. This is achieved by solving the synchronization equations on the raw, homeostatic weighted...

Into the woods of ancient Corinth: wood charcoal analysis & human-woodland associations in Hellenistic and early Roman Greece

This paper explores the historical periods of Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece, which brought important changes to the region during the second half of the 1st millennium BCE. While these periods hold great historical and cultural importance, the understanding of how individual...

Mental disorders, service use, and perceived treatment need among college students after the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of social connection: an epidemiological study

Abstract Background College students affected by mental disorders can be very impaired; yet, treatment rates remain low. The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtably posed strain on students, limiting their social life, which is an important determinant of health. However, recent estimates...

The Myokine Landscape: Sources, Signaling, and Context-Dependent Actions

In addition to its contractile role, skeletal muscle has important secretory functions and communicates with local and distant tissues through myokines, a heterogeneous group of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, peptides, and extracellular-matrix-associated proteins released...

The GPCRVP score reliably predicts the impact of GLP1R human variants on receptor function

Abstract Aims/hypothesis The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP1R) is a key regulator of glucose homeostasis and body weight, and a major therapeutic target for type 2 diabetes and obesity. Individual disease risk and response to treatments may vary widely depending on the pre...

Initial impact of a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team on patients with intermediate- to high-risk pulmonary embolism

Acute pulmonary embolism represents a major form of pulmonary vascular disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams (PERTs) have been increasingly implemented to improve the management of intermediate- and high-risk pulmonary embo...

M3: Conversational LLMs simplify secure clinical data access, understanding, and analysis

Large-scale clinical databases offer opportunities for medical research, but their complexity creates barriers to effective use. The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC-IV), one of the world’s largest open-source electronic health record databases, traditionally re...