WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN THE NEWS
From science to yoga — and back to science
17 December 2020
After initial studies in science, Zeynep Knight-Celen opts for a life practicing and teaching yoga. Ten years later her interest in the workings of the mind rekindles her scientific curiosity...
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Confined planet: a challenge for women
14 July 2020
Following the WHO's announcement on the coronavirus pandemic, our planet entered several weeks of confinement. Since then, the scientific community has been studying the consequences of this health crisis, particularly...
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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 on anxiety that is based on the expertise of two...
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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 help develop future treatments. Transmitting information, you do not have...
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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. What training did you do to become a doctor in...
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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 her studies would take. Silvia tells us how she intends...
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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 traces in the brain, and remembering it causes a feeling...
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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 anxiety is a personality dimension related to the extent to...
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Two Synapsy Neuroscientists Win Prestigious European Grants
21 January 2020
Camilla Bellone, member of the NCCR-Synapsy and researcher at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), was awarded the European Research Council's ERC Consolidator grant. Additionally, Alan Carleton, also a member of...
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Virginie Perizzolo’s work awarded prize
10 December 2019
The 11th French Congress of Psychiatry (CFP) awarded Best Scientific Publications of 2019 by Young Researchers Prize, 3rd Place to Virginie Perizzolo (née Pointet) of the University of Geneva, for...
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New EEG Study on Euthymic Bipolar Disorder Patients
25 November 2019
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a common and severe psychiatric disorder. A better understanding of the underlying pathophysiology is needed to identify objective biomarkers of BD that would improve diagnostic and...
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Kerstin Von Plessen – Treatments Based on Self-Regulation
9 September 2019
Kerstin von Plessen studies early biomarkers and potential resilience pathways for treating neurodevelopmental illnesses - areas that require a translational approach. As well as being a full professor in the...
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Empowerment: Three Questions for Bita Moghaddam
8 September 2019
Bita Moghaddam is a full professor at Oregon Health and Science University where she holds the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience. In the past 26 years, she focused...
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Nathalie Ginovart – Translational Research Using Neuroimaging
8 September 2019
Nathalie Ginovart uses neuroimaging as a research tool to investigate mental disorders and as a way of bringing the clinical and fundamental worlds closer together. Nathalie Ginovart started by studying...
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Antje Horsch – Deciphering the Inter-Generational Transmission of Stress and Trauma
8 September 2019
Antje Horsch holds the position of assistant professor at the Institute of Higher Education and Research in Health Care at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and in the Women and...
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Radio show with Marie Schaer
7 September 2019
Every Friday, the CQFD swiss radio show receives a scientist to talk about his or her work and research. The 6th of September 2019, the journalist Adrien Zerbini invited Marie...
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A gene to better understand autism and schizophrenia
5 August 2019
Claudia Bagni’s laboratory, Synapsy member and director of the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences of the University of Lausanne, published a "Nature Communications" paper demonstrating that an alteration of the CYFIP1...
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Workshop “Gender Equity in Science”
17 June 2019
Friday, 5 July 2019 9am – 4pm, Sciences III, Geneva. The NCCR Chemical Biology organizes the 1st edition of the workshop “Gender Equity in Science” to: · help future lab leaders develop gender...
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Bita Moghaddam invited speaker at Synapsy-LWiN
16 March 2019
Bita Moghaddam was the guest of Synapsy-LWiN seminars and lunches at both Geneva University and EPFL last March. Bita Moghaddam is full professor at Oregon Health and science university where...
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Affiliated member : Nadia Micali
15 March 2019
“Research isn’t the icing on the cake, it’s an integral part of clinical work" Nadia Micali was appointed head of HUG’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department in late 2017, joining...
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