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 [...]
Tommaso Patriarchi from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology has received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his work on visualization of neurotransmitter [...]
The ZNZ is proud to welcome four new members. Prof. Giancarlo NatalucciDepartment of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich Prof. Natalucci is assistant professor at the [...]
The world is becoming increasingly dependent on machine vision, in diverse applications including mobile phone imaging, industrial robotics, autonomous vehicles, satellites, [...]
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 [...]
The new University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning” aims at better understanding the mechanisms underlying brain [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]