NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

How a wine taster gets a good nose

wine-flavors

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…


Micah Murray is awarded the Research Prize of the Swiss Brain League

micah murray hirnliga award 2014

Profs. Magistretti and Murray The 2014 Research Prize of the Swiss Brain League (Hirnliga) is awarded to Prof. Micah M. Murray (UNIL-CHUV) and to Prof. Christoph S. Herrmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany). Vision, and perception more generally, should not be Read more…