NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

FBM-UNIL Clinical Sciences Award to Patric Hagmann

Patric Hagmann FBM prize

Nicolas Fasel and Patric Hagmann The FBM-UNIL Clinical Sciences Award was handed to Patric Hagmann for his work in the field of neuroradiology and brain connection studies through NMR diffusion techniques. The 2016 Honorary Professor, Giorgio Zanetti, outgoing director of the Read more…


2016 Koetser Award to Christian Lüscher

Christian Lüscher Koetser prize 2016

The Betty and David Koetser Foundation for research on the brain rewards this year Christian Lüscher, Professor at the Department of fundamental neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine at UNIGE (his group web page). Professor Lüscher, a specialist of neural Read more…


SHANK3 controls maturation of social reward circuits in the VTA

shShank3 Imagery

The autism spectrum disorders are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders whose main characteristic alterations in social communication, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. If the assumptions to identify alterations in brain circuits that could be responsible for autism disorders are Read more…