Sleep Spindles and Schizophrenia
Can sleep be used to diagnose early onset schizophrenia in adolescents? A new study suggests that certain brain processes are altered during sleep in adolescent schizophrenia [...]
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DBS and Swimming
Patients who received deep brain stimulation devices are warned not to swim in deep water alone. Daniel Waldvogel, Christian Baumann of the Department of Neurology, [...]
A Game Measuring Movement Control
A computer game using movement sensors can help assess the success of rehabilitation therapy in children with brain injury. This may have implications for the future [...]
Drug Discovery using Brain Activity Patterns
Fishing out the best therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric diseases is complex. Mehmet Fatih Yanik and colleagues show that the use of high throughput technologies [...]
Sleep-Wake Rhythms in Synapses Unraveled
Do we sleep because we are tired or because we follow a circadian rhythm? Steven Brown, Shiva Tyagarajan, Charo Robles (LMU Munich) and colleagues looked at the molecular [...]
Stress Networks in the Brain
What changes in the brain upon a stressful event? Dr. Valerio Zerbi and colleagues at the ETH Zurich have shown for the first time that selective release of the [...]
New Microscope Reveals Stunning Detail
Fabian Voigt at the Brain Research Institute of UZH has developed a novel light-sheet microscope that allows high-throughput imaging of large volumes of cleared biological [...]
Oxford-McGill-Zurich Partnership
In May 2019, four new pilot projects and one workshop were granted by the partnership. Pilot projects explore the feasibility of a new (high-risk) approach or research path [...]
Measuring large-scale brain circuit dynamics
Yaroslav Sych from the Helmchen group at the Brain Research Institute of UZH has developed a method to measure brain-wide calcium dynamics with miniaturized arrays of optical [...]
Brain-wide imaging
Having trouble deciding which part of your mouse brain you need to image? Why not monitor activity across the entire brain? The new paper by Prof. Daniel Razansky and [...]