The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
7 November 2014
Ghosts only exist in our minds, and we know precisely where to look for them. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often reported a strange “feeling of a presence”. EPFL researchers have now succeeded in recreating this illusion Read more…
30 September 2014
In an article published in Neuron, Kim Do and her group reveal that deficits related to schizophrenia can be corrected by protecting a specific group of vulnerable neurons from oxidative stress. Prof. Kim Do’s lab from the Centre for Psychiatric Read more…
25 March 2014
Professor Carleton’s group have just revealed that olfactory training leads to enhanced odorant detection and discrimination. They show that this happens by plasticity at early stages of odour processing in the sensory periphery in adults and endures after training. The Read more…
14 January 2014
Bogdan Draganski’s team, from the ‘Laboratoire de recherche en neuroimagerie (LREN)’ at CHUV/UNIL, publishes an article highlighting the potential effects of electroconvulsive therapy on the brain. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a treatment with electroshock for mood disorders, is controversial in psychiatry. Read more…
14 August 2013
Researchers from the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the EPFL show that people can be tricked into feeling that an image of a human figure -an avatar- is their own body. The study is published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Read more…
