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Theodore Ott prize 2017 to Christian Lüscher and Andrea Volterra
12 December 2016
Andrea Volterra & Christian Lüscher The Theodore Ott Award 2017 will be granted to two researchers for their remarkable works in neurosciences : Prof. Andrea Volterra from the Lausanne university....
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Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 2017
1 November 2016
Kathryn Hess Bellwald -professor at the BMI at EPFL- is among the 65 mathematical scientist from around the world who have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)...
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Early Diagnosis of ASD : what the studies on social orientation and on joint attention may bring to the issue
13 October 2016
The diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is based on behavioral observations. It is hard to make such a diagnosis for sure before the age of 3. However, the first...
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FBM 2016 Grant to Philipp Baumann (et al.)
26 September 2016
Philipp Baumann, Pascal Steullet (basic neuroscience) and Meritxel Bach Cuadra (bioengineering) are the happy beneficiaries of the 2016 FBM Interdisciplinary Grant of CHF 200'000 for their research : "Thalamus abnormalities...
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2016 Leenaards Grant to Philipp Baumann
22 September 2016
The Leenaards grant for clinic continuation wishes to promote academic careers in clinical medicine within the Biological and Medical Faculty of the Lausanne University. These grants allow doctors to combine...
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A UNIL faculty prize to Luis Alameda
15 September 2016
Luis Alameda, CHUV psychiatrist, receives the UNIL Faculty of Biology and Medicine’s Award for his work on schizophrenia performed in collaboration with Kim Do. Luis Alameda's publication: "Childhood sexual and...
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Swiss Media Award 2016 to documentary on schizophrenia
1 September 2016
Media Award 2016 from the Swiss Academies of Art and Sciences to Lison Méric's documentary on schizophrenia “J'entends des voix (I hear voices)” broadcasted on RTS1 - 36.9°, 16 December...
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Making mental health a global priority
15 August 2016
Who hasn’t felt a sense of loss or detachment from our families, friends, and regular routines, or experienced nervousness and anxiety about changes in our personal and professional lives? For...
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Max Cloëtta Foundation Prize 2016 to Andreas Lüthi
26 July 2016
The Max Cloëtta prize 2016 awards two researchers from Basel and Lausanne. The Professor Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation has awarded the 2016 Cloëtta Prize to two prestigious scientists: Professor Michel...
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Prof. Carmen Sandi nominated President-elect of the FENS
15 July 2016
On July 2, 2016, Prof. Carmen Sandi, Director of the Brain Mind Institute at the School of Life Sciences, EPFL, was elected President-elect (term as President starting in 2018)...
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Claudia Bagni, new UNIL-DNF Director
10 July 2016
Claudia Bagni has been nominated full Professor at the University of Lausanne on the first of July. She is officially Head of the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (DNF >). UNIL News...
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FBM-UNIL Clinical Sciences Award to Patric Hagmann
28 June 2016
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...
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2016 Koetser Award to Christian Lüscher
26 June 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...
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SHANK3 controls maturation of social reward circuits in the VTA
22 June 2016
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...
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2016 Ernest Solvay prize for Prof. Claudia Bagni
17 May 2016
Prof. Claudia Bagni has been awarded the Ernest Solvay prize for 2016 by Queen Elizabeth Medical Foundation, for the project “CYFIP1-pathies: shared pathways in intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disorders”. Q.E.M.F...
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Hirnliga Research Award 2016 to Anthony Holtmaat
20 March 2016
Prize “ Ligue Suisse sur le Cerveau - Hirnliga “ 2016 awarded to Anthony Holtmaat. The Swiss League for the Brain awards a prize every two years for outstanding brain research....
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Pfizer Award 2016 to Meaghan Creed & Vincent Pascoli
1 February 2016
Pfizer Award System : Neuroscience and nervous system illnesses. To treat addiction by electric shocks Deep brain stimulation involves implanting electrodes into the brains of patients and outputting electric shocks...
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SNN Best Poster Award 2016 to Thomas Stefanelli
23 January 2016
Thomas Stefanelli (Christian Lüscher PhD student, ex- Dominique Müller) won the best poster prize awarded by the Swiss Society for Neuroscience. The study examines neural ensemble involved in memory processes:...
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Hierarchy in animals: Anxiety can kill your social status
1 December 2015
Mitochondria in the neurons of the nucleus accumbens. Neuroscientists at EPFL identify a brain region that links anxious temperament to low social status. The researchers were able to tweak social...
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Could “forgetting” be the cure to addictions
30 November 2015
The research groups of Dr Benjamin Boutrel, PD, MER1 from the Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, CHUV and Prof. Pierre Magistretti from the University of Lausanne and the...
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