Pharmocotherapy of Tinnitus
A buzzing, ringing or hissing sound in the ear in absence of an external source – tinnitus is a common symptom that affects 10-20% of the population. Many drugs have [...]
Articles by Marjan van der Haar
ERC Grant for Patriarchi
Tommaso Patriarchi from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his work on visualization of neurotransmitter [...]
Welcome to our New Members
The ZNZ is proud to welcome four new members. Prof. Giancarlo NatalucciDepartment of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich Prof. Natalucci is assistant professor at the [...]
Bio-inspired Future of Machine Vision
The world is becoming increasingly dependent on machine vision, in diverse applications including mobile phone imaging, industrial robotics, autonomous vehicles, satellites, [...]
Control of Fear Extinction
What happens in the brain when we are faced with threat and how does it suppress fear caused by traumatic experiences? A new paper by the groups of Daria Peleg-Raibstein and [...]
Understanding Brain Development and Learning
The new University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning” aims at better understanding the mechanisms underlying brain [...]
Robot-assisted Therapy of Hand Function
A new study shows that robot-assisted therapy of hand function after stroke is as successful in improving upper limb function as conventional therapy. The results by Raffaele [...]
Meet Bjoern Menze
Bjoern Menze is the newly appointed Helmut Horten Professor for Biomedical Image Analysis and Machine Learning at the UZH Department of Quantitative Biomedicine. He plans to [...]
ZNZ Best PhD Awards 2020
Two prizes were awarded this year – one to Sara Bernardez Noya and one to Lilian Weber for their excellent doctoral theses in sleep research and human perception, [...]
Götz Award for Silvia Brem
Silvia Brem has been awarded the 2019 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize. The prize consists of CHF 30’000 and is awarded each year for outstanding contributions in the field of [...]