Award of the Siegenthaler Foundation 2012

Jan Lünemann has received one of two Walter and Gertrud Siegenthaler Research Awards.  Read more >>

Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching 2012

Martin Meyer has received the Best Teaching Award at the Dies academicus 2012.  Read more >>

Deep brain stimulation for epilepsy patient

The first patient in Switzerland has received deep brain stimulation electrodes at the University Hospital Zurich to reduce epileptic seizures. Read more  >>

Mathematical model predicts neurological diseases

The new Translational Neuromodeling Unit headed by Klaas Enno Stephan
uses fMRI data and mathematical models to improve diagnosis
of schizophrenia. Read more>>

Reduced neurogenesis in primates

Olivier Raineteau and his colleagues show an early decline in progenitor diversity in the marmoset lateral ventricle. Read more>>

Brainbus Tour 2012

Die rollende Ausstellung der “Association Decade of the Brain Switzerland“ startet ihre Tour 2012 am 10. April in Zürich. Read more>>

Prof. Fritjof Helmchen

Simultaneous BOLD fMRI and fiber-optic calcium recording in rat neocortex.
_{Schulz K., Rudin M., Helmchen F. et al. Nat.Methods 2012 May 6.}

Prof. Rodney Douglas

Competition Through Selective Inhibitory Synchrony.

_{Rutishauser U., Douglas R.J. et al.  Neural Comput. 2012 April 17}

Prof. Jean-Marc Fritschy

Selective distribution of GABA(A) receptor subtypes in mouse spinal dorsal horn neurons and primary afferents.

_{Paul J., Zeilhofer H.U., Fritschy J.M. J. Comp. Neurol. 2012 April 23}

Prof.  Stephan Neuhauss

Novel expression patterns of metabotropic glutamate receptor 6 in the zebrafish nervous system.

_{Huang Y.Y., Neuhauss S.C. et al. PLoS One 2012; 7(4):e35256}

Prof. Ruedi Stoop

Tuning the Hopf cochlea towards listening.

_{Gomez F., Stoop R. et al. J. Acoust Soc. Am. 2012 April; 131(4): 3268}

Dr. Helge Ewers

A simple, versatile method for GFP-based super-resolution microscopy via nanobodies.

_{Ries J., Ewers H. et al. Nat. Methods 2012 April 29}