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Konrad Akert Lecture 2023

March 1, 2023

The 3rd Konrad Akert lecture will be held by Li-Huei Tsai from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Li-Huei is an outstanding scientist who made a number of seminal discoveries in the context of memory formation […]

From nose to brain

March 1, 2023

Antibodies against specific target molecules or structures in the brain and spinal cord are currently reaching the stage of clinical application for several neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and spinal cord injury. How […]

ETH medals for doctoral theses

March 1, 2023

Two doctoral theses at the ZNZ PhD Program in Neuroscience were awarded the ETH medal 2022. We congratulate the award winners and wish them all the best for their future research careers. The medal winners […]

Why clinical studies of Alzheimer’s fail

March 1, 2023

Amyloid-β pathology is believed to be a key component underlying Alzheimer’s Disease. However, most treatments that target amyloid-β have failed clinical trials. To systematically evaluate these treatments and possible reasons for failure, Adriano Aguzzi (USZ), […]

BrainFair Zurich 2023 on learning

March 1, 2023

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 […]

Improving personalized wearables

March 1, 2023

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” […]

Detecting covert consciousness

March 1, 2023

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 […]

Blots and brains

March 1, 2023

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 […]