The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
29 March 2022
A Synapsy article has demonstrated that mothers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders resulting from domestic violence often convert their mental suffering into physical pain and pass on this somatisation to their children. Adults who have suffered childhood trauma exhibit a Read more…
23 March 2022
Individuals can respond to stress in diametrically opposed ways. A NCCR-Synapsy study shows that the behavioral response depends on the level of anxiety and identifies the cerebral mechanisms involved. People often have different responses to stress. These distinct behavioral reactions Read more…
9 March 2022
Scientists at EPFL have found a biological connection explaining why there is an increased predisposition to develop obesity and being less sociable in individuals that have experienced stress during early puberty. Between the end of childhood and the beginning Read more…
1 February 2022
A Synapsy study shows that mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder due to interpersonal violence misread their children’s emotions due to a lack of emotional comprehension, a difficulty that, in turn, has been associated with their children’s level of aggressive behavior Read more…
21 May 2021
Older traumatic experiences are harder to get over compared to recent ones, and Synapsy scientists based at EPFL have started to understand why – at the level of brain circuits in mice. The results point the way for treating long-term Read more…
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 her paper with Synapsy member Daniel Schechter: “EEG recording during Read more…
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 treatment. Evidence from brain imaging studies consistently points to abnormalities Read more…
3 September 2019
The Valle Foundation has chosen EPFL Professor and Synapsy member Johannes Gräff among the winners of its scholarships. The Vallee Foundation was founded in 1996 by Bert and Kuggie Vallee “to foster originality, creativity, and leadership within biomedical scientific research and medical Read more…
29 August 2019
Carmen Sandi, professor at EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute and co-director of the NCCR-Synapsy, published a review on the connection between anxiety and brain mitochondriain the Journal Trends in Neurosciences with her colleague Michaela Filiou from the Max Planck Institute.They highlight Read more…
