Events

BrainFair Zurich 2023 on learning

How does the brain learn? What is the role of genetic factors, the environment, and personal experiences? Which connections of our neural network are enforced during learning, and which are reduced? And how well do […]

In the Spotlight

Improving personalized wearables

Melika Payvand, SNSF Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich (UZH), was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant. In February, she started working on her project “UNITE: Brain-inspired device-circuits-algorithm co-design for resource-constrained hardware on the edge” […]

Research News

Detecting covert consciousness

Neurocritical patients that are clinically unresponsive can show a wide variety of covert consciousness. The terms minimal conscious state (MSC) and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) were established to distinguish patients who still show signs of […]

Research News

Blots and brains

A scene as if from a movie: A psychiatrist’s practice. On the soft and comfortable chair sits a patient. On the other side of the desk, the renowned psychiatrist. In the psychiatrist’s hands: A piece […]

Awards

PhD Thesis completed!

Congratulations! The following students have completed their PhD thesis in the last six months:  Michael Arzt, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Schwab) 24 September 2015 Structural Analysis of the Interface between […]

Publications

Recent publications by ZNZ members

Read here about recent papers published by members of the Neuroscience Center Zurich. Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: concepts and challenges. Curr Opin Neurol. 2015 Dec;28(6):639-46 Authors: Weiss T, Weller M, Roth P New frontiers in neurooncology. […]

People

Welcome to the ZNZ

The Neuroscience Center Zurich welcomes its new members. New ZNZ research group leaders: PD Dr. med. Mira Katan Kahles Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich Dr. Katan identifies (using OMICS-methods) and validates (conducting clinical studies […]

Awards

PhD Thesis completed!

Congratulations! The following students have completed their PhD thesis in the last six months:  Christian Brändli, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH (Supervisor: Dr. Shih-Chii Liu) 20 January 2015 Event-Based Machine Vision Sandrine Deprez, Institute of Pharmacology […]

Publications

Publications May to June 2015

Read here about recent papers published by members of the Neuroscience Center Zurich. Combined HDAC1 and HDAC2 Depletion Promotes Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival After Injury Through Reduction of p53 Target Gene Expression. ASN Neuro. 2015 […]