NCCR-SYNAPSY The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
Researchers and psychiatrists of the Swiss National Centre Competence in Research NCCR-SYNAPSY have joined forces to study the biologifdfdsfasfdsafdsafsacal basis of psychiatric disorders.
In order to offer patients new perspectives of a cure and a higher quality of life, this innovative union between psychiatry and neuroscience is seeking to better understand the origins of mental disorders, and thus settle upon better diagnosis and treatments.
The Harmful Effects of Stress Unraveled – Alexandre Dayer
18 February 2020
The 12th Synapsy newsletter is rich with interviews and portraits of students, clinical scientists and more senior researchers from the...
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Halfway between cell biology and patient care
18 February 2020
Zoé Schilliger was one of the three 2019 winners of the Synapsy clinician-researcher grant. She is embarking on a PhD...
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Anti-stress meditation
18 February 2020
Is meditation effective as an early intervention to reduce reactivity to stress and anxiety? The Mindfulteen study investigates the question...
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Breaking the transmission of trauma
18 February 2020
Children of mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder have difficulty processing their emotions. Defining the neural bases of this dysfunction will...
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Making a living on two wheels and electroencephalography
18 February 2020
Virginie Perizzolo tells us how cycling and speech therapy helped her recently graduate from the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School. ...
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No clinical work without understanding the basics
18 February 2020
Silvia Monari explains the difficult choice she had to make between medicine and life sciences when deciding on what direction...
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Mapping the emotional management of trauma
18 February 2020
Trauma can induce fear pathologies, which are treated using psychotherapeutic approaches whose brain pathways have recently been identified. Fear leaves...
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Tracking neurogliaform cells and their role in the cortical microcircuit
18 February 2020
Studying neurogliaform-type interneurons involves the five key elements of stress-related pathologies: brain development, the prefrontal cortex, serotonergic pathway, interneurons and...
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Neural signature of trait anxiety
18 February 2020
The neurological basis of trait anxiety, a risk factor for the development of neuropsychiatric diseases, revealed by Synapsy researchers. Trait...
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