NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

A breakthrough in understanding brain-learning processes

plasticity astrocytic

Plasticity of the astrocytic processes (green) around a dendritic spine (red) in a post-synaptic receiving neuron structure transferring a sensory impulse. Professor Dominique Muller, co-director of the NCCR-Synapsy, and his team at the University of Geneva, have discovered a new Read more…


Carmen Sandi awarded the Behavioral Brain Research Prize

carmen sandi at the FENS

Carmen Sandi, project leader on the “Developmental stress” project of Synapsy and head of the Brain Mind Institute (EPFL), received the Behavioral Brain Research Prize last Sunday. On the occasion of the biannual Forum 2014 of the FENS-Federation of the Read more…