Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Quantifying and Mapping Ecosystem Services Flows

25 p.

Never-resting microglia: physiological roles in the healthy brain and pathological implications

Microglia are largely known as the major orchestrators of the brain inflammatory response. As such, they have been traditionally studied in various contexts of disease, where their activation has been assumed to induce a wide range of detrimental effects. In the last few years, a series of discoveries have challenged the current view of microglia, showing their active and positive contribution to normal brain function. This Research Topic will review the novel physiological roles of microglia in the developing, mature and aging brain, under non-pathological conditions. In particular, this Research Topic will discuss the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which microglia contribute to the formation, pruning and plasticity of synapses; the maintenance of the blood brain barrier; the regulation of adult neurogenesis and hippocampal learning; and neuronal survival, among other important roles. Because these novel findings defy our understanding of microglial function in health as much as in disease, this Research Topic will also summarize the current view of microglial nomenclature, phenotypes, origin and differentiation, sex differences, and contribution to various brain pathologies. Additionally, novel imaging approaches and molecular tools to study microglia in their non-activated state will be discussed. In conclusion, this Research Topic seeks to emphasize how the current research in neuroscience is challenged by never-resting microglia.

Familia y Escuela. Encuesta de participación en un centro concertado de clase media

[es] El presente trabajo se ha realizado con el propósito de conocer mejor una de las realidades del ámbito educativo: la participación de las familias en los centros escolares. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en las relaciones de comunicación entre la familia y la escuela, teniendo en cuenta a ambos colectivos como contextos de socialización fundamentales en el desarrollo del niño. Así, partiendo de un marco teórico basado en la conceptualización de la participación a partir de diferentes aproximaciones teóricas y del marco jurídico que regula este ámbito a nivel estatal, hemos realizado un trabajo de campo en un centro concertado de clase media que busca sondear las formas y la práctica de participación de las familias a fin de obtener un diagnóstico sobre los niveles de participación existentes hoy en día en este tipo de centros.