The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases
16 August 2013
A gene appears to be associated with overweight and obesity in psychiatric patients, as well as the general population, according to a report of Prof. Chin-Bin Eap’s group, published in JAMA Psychiatry. The CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 1 (CRTC1) gene is Read more…
Visual retentivity of an orchid in the brain Alan Carleton’s team (UNIGE) has just shown that the representation of an odor evolves after the first breath, and that an olfactory retentivity persists at the central level. This research is published 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…
