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Astrocytes charge neurons with lactate

March 2, 2016

The brain has high energy requirements and lactate has been shown to be an important energy source for the brain. Prof. Bruno Weber and colleagues present in-vivo evidence in favor of the concept that astrocytes […]

Improve post-stroke hand function

March 2, 2016

EIT Health has awarded an innovation project aimed at developing a new technology for improving hand function in post-stroke patients. Prof. Volker Dietz of the Balgrist University Hospital and Dr. Miriam Schrafl-Altermatt, together with the […]

New tools to fight JC virus

December 9, 2015

Prof. Roland Martin and colleagues, together with the company Neurimmune, have developed recombinant antibodies as potential treatment of a serious infectious disease of the brain caused by the human polyoma tumor virus JC. What is […]

HMZ seed funding for ZurichMOVE

December 9, 2015

How do we know whether training or medical therapy is successful in patients with movement deficits? This question prompted Profs. William Taylor, Armin Curt and Roger Gassert to start the project ZurichMOVE. Its goal is […]

Fixing resting state fMRI signals

October 6, 2015

Dr. Valerio Zerbi in the group of Prof. Nicole Wenderoth has for the first time applied a novel method (FIX) for the analysis of resting state functional MRI in mice. In their paper, that will […]

Early English teaching may not be effective

July 2, 2015

Children are able to learn a foreign language much more easily than adults. This notion has led to the introduction of foreign language classes in elementary school. Results of electrophysiological experiments published by the group […]

Changes in sensory processing during learning

July 2, 2015

How is sensory information processing changing during learning? In their experiments published in Nature Neuroscience, Jerry Chen, Fritjof Helmchen and colleagues have made a significant step towards understanding the modulation of the neural signal pathways […]

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