NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Max Cloëtta Foundation Prize 2016 to Andreas Lüthi

Andreas Lüthi Cloëtta award 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 Gilliet, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Read more…


Neurons switches states to turn on and off learning

switch button

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 a stimulating environment promotes this switch, and thus learning. Their Read more…


Caroni publication named as one of the most influential in 25 years

Pico Caroni in Neuron

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 prompted numerous studies aimed at clarifying its role in regeneration Read more…