Using smartphones changes our brains
A whole new group of test persons is available for investigating neuroplasticity. Chances are you are one of them. Arko Ghosh and colleagues have demonstrated that smartphone [...]
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Role of hippocampus in unconscious memories
How and where are our memories stored in our brains? These questions were addressed by Prof. Katharine Henke’s group by looking at differences in memory processing in [...]
Neocortical adaptation shapes sensory perception
A ticking clock that we no longer hear, the touch of clothes we no longer feel: We perceive the world as our brain continuously filters the incoming sensory information [...]
Optimal anesthetics for fMRI
In order to study functional connectivity with fMRI in the mouse brain, the animals have to be anesthetized. But how do anesthetics influence functional connectivity and [...]
Male and female brains are not that different
Different behavior patterns of men and women are often explained with physiological differences in the brain. Neuropsychologist Lutz Jäncke and his team could show that [...]
Renowned neurotechnology expert joins ETH
The appointment of Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik as Full Professor of Neurotechnology at the ETH further strengthens the Zurich Neuroscience Community. Yanik, currently [...]
Sing me a song of learning
The group of Prof. Richard Hahnloser has published data about how songbirds learn to sing their songs. They have for the first time provided evidence at the neuronal level [...]
Sperm RNAs carry trauma-induced traits to the next generation
Prof. Isabelle Mansuy and colleagues demonstrate that small non-coding RNAs in sperm are involved in the transgenerational inheritance of traumatic stress in early life in [...]
Weak impulses for strong memories
Memories are stored in our brain as connections between neurons, so called memory traces. But how are these traces created? ZNZ researcher Urs Gerber and his group challenge [...]