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Body ownership is not impaired in schizophrenia
27 July 2017
Schizophrenia patients often experience an altered sense of self, for example, as if someone else is controlling their actions. This impairment is described as a deficit in the “sense of...
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Low-dose diazepam can increase social competitiveness
19 July 2017
EPFL scientists have discovered how low-dose anxiolytics increase the social competitiveness of high-anxious individuals by boosting the energy output of mitochondria in an area of the mammalian brain that controls...
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How social rank can trigger vulnerability to stress
14 July 2017
EPFL scientists have identified rank in social hierarchies as a major determining factor for vulnerability to chronic stress. They also show that energy metabolism in the brain is a predictive...
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Some genes evolved from an immune function to an olfactory role
26 June 2017
Researchers demonstrate how some genes evolved from an immune function to an olfactory role in some mammals. Mammals possess several lines of defense against microbes. One of them is activated...
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The brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures
26 June 2017
A team of researchers from the Swiss Blue Brain Project — a group focusing on supercomputer-powered reconstruction of the human brain — have used a classic branch of maths in a completely...
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Outstanding Mentoring Award to Stephanie Clarke
17 June 2017
In recognition of her exceptional contribution to the training of young talents and for commitment to the new generation of academics, Prof. Stephanie Clarke has been awarded the Outstanding Mentoring...
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Scientists discover hidden patterns of brain activity
13 June 2017
In a collaboration led by EPFL’s Blue Brain, scientists discover patterns of brain activity – never before observed – with the help of mathematics, providing insight into how neurons collectively...
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François Ansermet appointed Honorary Professor
1 June 2017
François Ansermet has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Lausanne. Whole speech by Prof. Jacques Gasser, Chef du Département de psychiatrie du CHUV. UNIL News (FR)> < Back...
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A new tool for discovering nanoporous materials
25 May 2017
EPFL scientists have developed a mathematical “face-recognition” method for identifying and discovering nanoporous materials based on their pore size. Materials classified as “nanoporous” have structures (or “frameworks”) with pores up to 100...
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3D Imaging removes secrets of communication between brain cells
20 May 2017
Prof. Andrea Volterra and his team from the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience (UNIL) have pioneered a new approach allowing correct study of astrocyte-synapse-blood vessel interactions: 3D volumetric two-photon imaging. This...
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GliaPharm moves to Campus Biotech
5 May 2017
C. Finsterwald, A. Magistretti, P. Magistretti, S. Lengacher GliaPharm, tackling Stephen Hawking's disease, moves to Campus Biotech, Geneva. There are approximately 800 people working in the Campus Biotech building, say...
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Immersive virtual-reality creation software for everyone
5 May 2017
IMVERSE, an EPFL spinoff, has developed a software that lets users convert 360-degree images from 2D into 3D and both manipulate and create virtual-reality content in real time with the...
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Charles Quairiaux awarded by the Swiss League Against Epilepsy
5 May 2017
The research grant 2017 from the Swiss League Against Epilepsy goes to Dr. Charles Quairiaux, Dr. Abbas Khani and Prof. Christoph Michel of the Department of Basic Neurosciences of the...
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iTango: A switch to illuminate the neurons
3 April 2017
The blue light activates the iTango system. Mouse implanted with an optical fiber that directs light to the parts of the brain involved in the addictive behavior. Swiss and American...
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Biaggi de Blasys 2016 Award to Sebastiano Bariselli
30 March 2017
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...
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To have flair: Practice makes perfect!
27 March 2017
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...
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Caring touch helps premature brains mature
17 March 2017
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,...
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Is everything decided in childhood?
1 March 2017
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...
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Winners of the Pfizer Prize for Research 2017
31 January 2017
Alan Carleton, Nixon Abraham, Olivier Gschwend Pfizer Award 2017 - 25 young Swiss researchers were awarded for their outstanding scientific work, including three teams from the HUG and UNIGE. These...
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Deciphering the emergence of neuronal diversity
30 January 2017
Inhibitory interneurons labelled with a fluorescent molecule (in green) are distributed in the cerebral cortex. These cells were individually isolated and single cell transcriptomics revealed markers (in white) specifically expressed...
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