The Annual Symposium on 16 September 2022 counted 270 visitors and featured 103 posters, a variety of talks by new members and plenary lectures by Guy Rouleau and Beth Stevens. Several PhD students and postdocs […]
We congratulate Paulin Jirkof, Felix Scholkmann and Ulrich Hemmeter on their inaugural lectures. On September 24, Paulin Jirkof talked about whether animal welfare and animal testing is contradictory: “Tierwohl und Tierversuch – Ein Widerspruch?“. One […]
The iPSC Platform for Neuropsychiatry of the European College for Neuropsycho- pharmacology (ECNP) established in 2019 and chaired by Edna Grünblatt, is running free of charge seminars for Early Career Scientists (ECS). Every two months, […]
Unfortunately, sexist comments appear regularly in female PhD candidates’ careers. Even if women react to them differently, they share the similar experiences of sexism, hearing the same comments again and again. The 500 Women Scientists […]
We are proud to welcome our new members. Read on to learn about the research expertise they contribute to our community. Prof. Catherine Jutzeler, Group Leader Institute for Translational Medicine, D-HEST, ETH Zurich Catherine Jutzeler […]
Axolotl salamanders are amphibians that have the astonishing capacity to regenerate its brain after a large section is being removed. However, it has been unclear how complete this regeneration is, whether all lost neurons are […]
During childhood and adolescence, fundamental neural restructuring processes take place and thus represent a critical phase of the human lifespan. A substantial body of literature dealing with neurophysiological changes often focused on the most dominant […]
Stroke research heavily relies on rodent behavior when assessing underlying disease mechanisms and treatment efficacy. Although functional motor recovery is considered the primary outcome, tests in rodents are still poorly reproducible, and often unsuitable for […]
Benjamin Ineichen, group leader at the Center for Reproducible Science at the University of Zurich, will lead the project “Advancing 3R – Animals, Research and Society” from the National Research Program 79. He will establish […]
In our everyday lives, our dopaminergic brain system is consistently active every time we receive a surprising reward. For some people with depression or schizophrenia reward processing is impaired and sensitivity to rewards is reduced. […]
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