Angel Toval

📣 Call for Abstracts is OPEN! III Int’l Congress “Promoting Brain Health Through Exercise Across the Lifespan” 📍Granada | 📅 Oct 7–9, 2026 🗓 Deadline: Apr 24, 2026 Submit: webcongreso.com/brain2026 #BHE2026

Check out the anatomy and structural complexity of the brain at different scales 👀👀

Our animation shows how brain cells form new connections, a process called synaptogenesis. As neurons grow, their long extensions (axons) reach out and connect with tiny contact points on neighboring neurons, helping build the brain’s communication network 🧠🎇

Very happy and proud to share our latest work, recently published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association! 🧠💪 Can strength training help maintain cognitive function in older adults? 🧵👇 @alzdemjournals #AlzResearch

📍Hemos celebrado con @FECYT_Ciencia un encuentro sobre oportunidades de financiación en investigación en salud en Horizonte Europa. cc @druiziruela 📲 La jornada completa, en Youtube #ISCIII ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=JGmyGc… 📰 Léelo en #NoticiasISCIII ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=JGmyGc…

@JosemyRivera Rosa María Alonso Cuenca, Lucía Sánchez Aranda, Emilio Barranco Moreno, Sara Corpas Pérez, Ángel Toval, Eduardo Moreno Escobar y Francisco Bartolomé Ortega

#NeuroHormesis @JLTrejo2 blog, entrada #7: Recién llegados a los mecanismos mediadores del ejercicio en el cerebro @CSICdivulga @InstitutoCajal @SENC_ neurohormesis.blogspot.com/2025/09/recien…

PIs, next time when your PhD students and postdocs help with your peer review for these journals, please consider using the co-review model! This way, you can share the credit with your trainees! @NatureAging

🚨New publication🚨 “Gait Variability Is Associated With Gray Matter Volumes Implicated in Cognitive Function” A cross-sectional analysis from the @aguedaproject, now in Innovation in Aging doi.org/10.1093/geroni… 🧵1/7

Does it make new neurons in the adult brain? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚀 Very proud to share our latest work in @JAMANetworkOpen! 📖Time-Restricted Eating and Sleep, Mood, and Quality of Life in Adults with Overweight or Obesity: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial Read the full paper here! 🤩 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Thrilled to share our latest Spotlight in @TrendsNeuro 🧠🏃@ortegaporcel @estebancornejoi ! We highlight and summarize the recent work by Kim et al. (jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…) and delve into promising future research directions. Check it out here: cell.com/trends/neurosc… 1/4🧵

🚨‍‍New publication by @aguedaproject !🚨 🧠1/6 “Association of 24h-movement behaviors with cerebral and hippocampal amyloid beta (Aβ) levels and executive function in cognitively normal older adults: a compositional data analysis from the AGUEDA trial” jsams.org/article/S1440-…

✨ Featured articles from our newsletter 🫀 Toval et al. (Eur Heart J, 2025): Prescribing exercise - especially through in-person programs - improves health-related quality of life, and reduces anxiety and depression in individuals with coronary artery disease; but there’s room to optimize home-based interventions for better brain-related benefits. 🚺 Marçal et al. (CJC Open, 2025): Only 34% of participants in Canadian exercise trials are women - a number unchanged over the past decade. It’s time to close the gender gap in research and prioritize equitable representation in cardiovascular care. 📬 You can read these open-access articles and more in the May edition of The Insider: mailchi.mp/439f60ef8d81/t…

Ejercitar la fuerza muscular durante el envejecimiento ayuda a tener un cerebro más saludable 👉 Un estudio de la @CanalUGR y el @hospital_hvn muestra que un cuerpo más fuerte puede tener un impacto protector en el volumen de materia gris ⬇️ elindependientedegranada.es/economia/ejerc…

How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @TheLancet reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more thelancet.com/journals/lance… @AtefeTari @UWisloff @CERG_NTNU @NTNU

Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes 🐣🦎🐀, published in @ScienceMagazine! A great learning experience in brain evolution 🧠. Huge thanks and congrats to @PhyloBrain and @RuedaEneritz for leading this outstanding work!

BRAIN EVODEVO ALERT! So thrilled to share our newest articles about brain evolution, published by @ScienceMagazine! Briefly, we have found that pallial circuits are formed by different developmental programs and comprise different neurons. Not all brains are the same!

Morning 🌞 or evening 🌛 training 🏃‍♂️, does it make a difference? Check out this new work led by @jlferran and @YevheniyKutsenko Full-text link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…