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Micah Murray is awarded the Research Prize of the Swiss Brain League
14 March 2014
Profs. Magistretti and Murray The 2014 Research Prize of the Swiss Brain League (Hirnliga) is awarded to Prof. Micah M. Murray (UNIL-CHUV) and to Prof. Christoph S. Herrmann (University of...
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Brain changes tied to electroconvulsive therapy
14 January 2014
Bogdan Draganski’s team, from the 'Laboratoire de recherche en neuroimagerie (LREN)' at CHUV/UNIL, publishes an article highlighting the potential effects of electroconvulsive therapy on the brain. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a...
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François Ansermet appointed to the French Committee of Ethics
16 December 2013
François Ansermet, psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist and member of Synapsy, is the first non-French expert to serve on the French ethics advisory board. Progress in research brings with it ethical...
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Neurons switches states to turn on and off learning
13 December 2013
Pico Caroni and his team show how a network of neurons in hippocampus and cortex switches states to turn on and off learning in the adult. They further show how...
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Two Synapsy project leaders nominated at EPFL
9 December 2013
Richard Frackowiak and Richard Petersen At its meeting held in December, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed seven professors at EPFL. Among them, two project leaders...
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The synaptic interactions driving the neural circuit computations underlying any goal-directed sensorimotor transformation
23 October 2013
The research undertaken by Prof. Carl Petersen and his group about the causal description of the synaptic interactions driving the neural circuit computations underlying any learned, goal-directed sensorimotor transformation is...
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Nobel Prize 2013 : Thomas Südhof, a pioneer of synaptic mechanisms
20 October 2013
Thomas Südhof Ralf Schneggenburger shares his views on the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. The 2013 Nobel Prize honours three scientists who have solved the mystery of...
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Cocaine tampers with the brain’s brakes
7 October 2013
New results from Christian Lüscher and his group show that cocaine not only acts on excitatory transmission but also affects inhibitory transmission provoking loss of an intrinsic brake in the...
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Stéphane Baudouin receives the 2013 Life Sciences Award
5 September 2013
The Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards 2013 was awarded during the annual EPFL Life Science Symposium (LSS2013), to the PostDoc student from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel....
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Gene appears to be associated with obesity in psychiatric patients
16 August 2013
A gene appears to be associated with overweight and obesity in psychiatric patients, as well as the general population, according to a report of Prof. Chin-Bin Eap's group, published in...
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Sense of smell : nose and brain make quite a team… in disconnection
16 August 2013
Visual retentivity of an orchid in the brain Alan Carleton's team (UNIGE) has just shown that the representation of an odor evolves after the first breath, and that an olfactory...
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Full body illusion is associated with a drop in skin temperature
14 August 2013
Researchers from the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the EPFL show that people can be tricked into feeling that an image of a human figure -an avatar- is their own body....
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Pico Caroni receives prestigious Théodore Ott Prize
7 June 2013
Pico Caroni, Group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, professor at the University of Basel and member of the NCCR Synapsy, has received on June 7, 2013 in...
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Scientists discover the origin of a giant synapse
31 May 2013
Calyx of Held synapse covering the neuron soma How do we locate the spatial position of sounds? Scientists have revealed a mechanism responsible for the creation of giant synapses in...
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Caroni publication named as one of the most influential in 25 years
18 May 2013
A publication of Pico Caroni was named one of the most influential publications in the 25-year-long history of Neuron. The publication identified Nogo-A as an inhibitor of neurite growth and...
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Childhood trauma leaves marks on the brain
15 January 2013
EPFL scientists have found that childhood trauma leaves a lasting imprint on the brain – a structural change that is related to a predisposition to violence. It is well known...
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Disorder of neuronal circuits in autism is reversible
10 September 2012
Synaptic connections in the brain of a mouse model for autism People with autism suffer from a pervasive developmental disorder of the brain that becomes evident in early childhood. Peter...
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Calling for pilot projects
15 November 2011
As indicated during the kickoff meeting (1 October 2010) and during the retreat of the NCCR-Synapsy in Villars (April 1 and 2, 2011), it is the intention of Synapsy to...
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