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The onset of schizophrenia is typically in early adulthood with little hope for full functional recovery once the disorder has developed. The establishment of early interventions, which may attenuate or even prevent the onset of […]

Transcranial electrical stimulation techniques are widely used to regulate brain function and behavior. However, due to low reproducibility of various studies, the efficacy of this technique started to be questioned. This led researchers of the […]

Mobile phones have become an integral part of our 24/7 society. From a health scientific perspective, they represent at the same time a potential negative influence but also a unique opportunity to gather big data. […]

Where does our ability to communicate come from? How does language develop and how do we pass it on from generation to generation? The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, established last […]

When prescription opioids are used over a longer period for medical or non-medical purposes, it can have consequences on brain and behavior. Sara Kroll and Boris Quednow from the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of […]

Can electrical neurostimulation be used to help migraine patients? A new study indicates that modification of neural excitability over the visual cortex reduces the occurrence of migraine attacks significantly. Migraine affects about one million people […]

An interdisciplinary research team from Zurich has designed an immunocytokine which has striking anti-cancer activity for glioblastoma. The paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine describes a new technique and how well it worked […]

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 Denis Burdakov shows the […]

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 Ranzani and Olivier Lambercy from the group of […]

Can a hormone be used to treat autism? A new study from the neuromodulation lab at KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with Prof. Nici Wenderoth shows that repeated administration of oxytocin can help improve symptoms […]