NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Biaggi de Blasys 2016 Award to Sebastiano Bariselli

The Biaggi de Blasys Award for the best thesis in neuroscience in 2016 went to two LNDS alumni: Dr. Sebastiano BARISELLI (right) for his thesis “SHANK3 CONTROLS MATURATION OF SOCIAL REWARD CIRCUITS IN THE VTA” defended at the University of Read more…


To have flair: Practice makes perfect!

Alan Carleton link to video

The human brain has the ability to recognize and process a very wide range of sensory stimuli, from which it builds a mental representation. But do these representations change over time? Can we learn to classify and interpret stimuli more Read more…


Caring touch helps premature brains mature

Caring touch

Every year 15 million preterm infants are born, and most spend their first weeks in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Although essential for the support and survival of these infants, the sensory environment of a NICU is dramatically different from Read more…


Is everything decided in childhood?

claudia bagni portrait

Meeting with Claudia Bagni, Head of the UNIL Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, whose inaugural lecture will take place during the Brain Awareness Week 2017 (program pdf). Without knowing why, it is often said that everything is decided in childhood. Claudia Read more…