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Mental Health Science Award to Dr. Johannes Gräff
15 November 2015
Mental Heath Science was very proud to announce the winners of their 2015 Fellows Awards. This is the third year of the MQ’s annual Fellows Award programme, which supports the...
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ESDM: A Game-changing therapy for autism
1 November 2015
The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) is an innovative therapy for autism that makes a difference in the treatment of very young patients. The method is now used successfully in...
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Impaired regulation of serotonin affects positioning of brain cells
30 October 2015
In a study of infant mice, researchers have found that the positioning of brain cells is affected by early-life impairment of the system that regulates serotonin — a key brain...
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Pierre Magistretti wins 2016 IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity prize
24 September 2015
Professor Pierre Magistretti, from EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute, has been awarded the prestigious IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity prize for 2016. The 2016 Neuronal Plasticity prize is awarded jointly to Professor Pierre...
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Better learning through distinguishing
1 September 2015
A study published in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience describes work led by the University of Geneva’s (UNIGE) Faculties of Medicine and Sciences, on the indisputable role of the...
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Jan Cabungcal awarded by SSBP Young Investigator
1 September 2015
The Young Investigator Award 2015 of the Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry has been awarded to Jan Cabungcal. Dr. Jan Cabungcal, member of Prof. Kim Do team has been rewarded...
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Michael Herzog nominated Full Professor of Life Sciences at EPFL
23 July 2015
The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of eight professors at EPFL. Michael Herzog is a world-renowned expert on the processes of visual perception...
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A novel pathway between stress and cognition
26 June 2015
A team of neuroscientists from EPFL, MIT and Stanford uncovered a new stress-related mechanism involved in memory deterioration. In ever faster moving societies, an increasing number of people is becoming...
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Professor Carmen Sandi has been awarded the Valkhof Chair 2015
22 June 2015
Prof. Carmen Sandi has been awarded the Valkhof Chair 2015. On June 22nd, she had the opportunity to give this year's Valkhof Lecture, entitled: "The stressed social brain: from rodents...
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The brain, a mirror of the mother’s trauma
15 June 2015
Previous studies have shown it is more difficult for mothers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to a history of violent life events to react appropriately to their...
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Christian Lüscher becomes a member of the SAMS
9 June 2015
Professor Christian Lüscher from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a NCCR Synapsy member joins the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) The senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical...
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Two young researchers awarded at the 2nd DNF Symposium
27 May 2015
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...
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There’s more to a child than its reproductive beginnings
23 May 2015
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...
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Regulating the brain’s redox state to prevent schizophrenia
18 May 2015
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...
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The tragic death of Professor Dominique Muller
5 May 2015
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...
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Stress and the social brain : effects and mechanisms
20 April 2015
Prof. Carmen Sandi has published a review article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience on stress and the social brain. As noted in a review article by Carmen Sandi (> LGC lab),...
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Modeling the brain’s energy with glia cells (astrocytes)
26 March 2015
Glial cells Scientists at EPFL, KAUST and UCL have created the first computer model of the metabolic coupling between neuron and glia, an essential feature of brain function. Confirming previous...
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How stress affect self-confidence during competition time
19 February 2015
How does stress affect our self-confidence when we compete? An EPFL study shows how stress could actually be both a consequence and a cause of social and economic inequality, affecting...
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Adapting optogenetics to reverse cocaine behavior
6 February 2015
Borrowing ideas from optogenetics, which uses light to control neurons, Christian Lüscher and colleagues have developed a combination therapy to treat cocaine-induced behaviors in mice. Recent research has shown that...
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Profs. Bellone and Gräff are part of the first FENS-Kavli Scholars (2014-2018)
7 January 2015
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the Kavli Foundation have selected 20 young European neuroscience researchers for the excellence of their research. NCCR-Synapsy is very proud to announce...
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