NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: How to treat OCD?

The fourth most common psychiatric illness, OCD affects between 2 and 3% of the population. Obsessive compulsive disorder, called OCD, is a psychological disorder. It is characterized by distressing obsessions that occur as recurring mental thoughts or images. These lead Read more…


2016 Koetser Award to Christian Lüscher

Christian Lüscher Koetser prize 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 (his group web page). Professor Lüscher, a specialist of neural Read more…