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Can a hormone be used to treat autism? A new study from the neuromodulation lab at KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with Prof. Nici Wenderoth shows that repeated administration of oxytocin can help improve symptoms […]

Many people have vivid bodily experiences in their dreams, even though the body is not actually moving. We have now shown that stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex can modulate this experience, so it occurs less […]

Persons with Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) feel disturbingly uncomfortable in their body and seek the amputation of a limb to feel complete. We found abnormalities in the brain architecture of these persons. Our neuroimaging data, […]

Patients who received deep brain stimulation devices are warned not to swim in deep water alone. Daniel Waldvogel, Christian Baumann of the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich and colleagues report nine patients who lost […]

A computer game using movement sensors can help assess the success of rehabilitation therapy in children with brain injury. This may have implications for the future evaluation of therapies. How specific are novel rehabilitation interventions, […]

Fishing out the best therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric diseases is complex. Mehmet Fatih Yanik and colleagues show that the use of high throughput technologies opens fascinating possibilities of accelerating basic and translational research. In […]

Do we sleep because we are tired or because we follow a circadian rhythm? Steven Brown, Shiva Tyagarajan, Charo Robles (LMU Munich) and colleagues looked at the molecular mechanisms in the brain that regulate sleep. […]

What changes in the brain upon a stressful event? Dr. Valerio Zerbi and colleagues at the ETH Zurich have shown for the first time that selective release of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline reconfigures communication between large-scale […]

Fabian Voigt at the Brain Research Institute of UZH has developed a novel light-sheet microscope that allows high-throughput imaging of large volumes of cleared biological tissue. This mesoscale selective plane illumination microscope (mesoSPIM) is now […]