NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Two Synapsy project leaders nominated at EPFL

frackowiack -petersen

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 of the NCCR-Synapsy. Carl Petersen as Full Professor of Life Read more…


The synaptic interactions driving the neural circuit computations underlying any goal-directed sensorimotor transformation

sensory-process in mouse

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 published in Nature Neuroscience. Sensory perceptions are thought to be Read more…