NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Two young researchers awarded at the 2nd DNF Symposium

Best poster reward

P. Bezzi, C. Bellone, F. Petrelli, S. Habbas During the 2nd DNF Symposium held at the DNF/CHUV, two young scientists working within the NCCR Synapsy received the 1st and 2nd poster prizes : Samia Habbas (Prof. Volterra lab) and Francesco Read more…


There’s more to a child than its reproductive beginnings

Ansermet New Book

In his book “La fabrication des enfants, un vertige technologique (Making children, A technological vertigo)”, published by Editions Odile Jacob, Prof. François Ansermet considers the novel situations arising from new advances in medically assisted procreation. Professor François Ansermet whose research Read more…


Regulating the brain’s redox state to prevent schizophrenia

brain redox

Kim Q. Do’s group show that cell-specific regulation of redox state balances critical periods of brain plasticity; essential as disruption of natural critical periods in brain development may be at the root of schizophrenia. Prof. Kim Q. Do’s team from Read more…


The tragic death of Professor Dominique Muller

Dominique Muller

It is with heavy hearts that we learned that Professor Dominique Muller, Head of the Department of Basic Neurosciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva and co-director of the NCCR-Synapsy sadly died after a gliding accident Read more…