Research News Archives - Page 11 of 14

Therapeutic target unveiled with LSD

July 1, 2018

The serotonin 2A receptor in the brain plays an important role in how we experience ourselves and others, researchers at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich have found. They used the hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide […]

Fast signaling stars of the brain

July 1, 2018

Astrocyte calcium signals are fast enough to play a role in neuronal information processing and changes in local blood flow, research from Jill Stobart and Prof. Bruno Weber suggests. In their Neuron paper, they show […]

Live birth of a neuron

March 1, 2018

For the first time, researchers have been able to follow the fate of neuronal stem cells in the intact adult mouse brain. The new study by the group of Prof. Jessberger and colleagues, published in […]

Ouch! Where did that come from?

March 1, 2018

Correct localization of painful events is crucial for living beings. But the functional mechanisms behind this pain localization are currently not well known. A collaborative study of McGill and Zurich University research groups identified a […]

Dopamine in stroke recovery

March 1, 2018

Learning a new motor skill is enhanced by reward. Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Luft of the University Hospital Zurich found that dopamine is involved in new motor skill learning and that a subgroup of dopaminergic […]

Learning to sing a song

December 3, 2017

How do songbirds learn the complex task of singing a song? Prof. Hahnloser of the Institute of Neuroinformatics and colleagues have demonstrated that zebra finches do this by dividing the complex task up into several […]

New EIT Health projects in 2018

October 1, 2017

ETH Zurich is a partner in the European EIT Health Consortium. For 2018, three new projects with ETH participation will receive funding by the Consortium. In one of these projects, an innovation project led by […]

Less sleep, more risk taking

October 1, 2017

Insufficient sleep can lead to increased risk-seeking behavior. These results were published by the group led by Prof. Christian Baumann in Annals of Neurology. The authors warn of the consequences chronic sleep restriction may have […]

Funding for MRI in spinal cord injuries

October 1, 2017

MRI has greatly improved the visualization of changes in the central nervous system, but how do these changes relate to changes in the underlying tissue microstructure? A European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) funded project coordinated […]

Brain stimulation increases honesty

July 2, 2017

Michel Maréchal and Christian Ruff have identified the brain region involved in conflicts between honesty and material self-interest. They could even increase honest behavior using non-invasive brain stimulation. The results are published in the April […]