2020
by Linda Faye Tidwell
DFG approves new Transregional Collaborative Research Center for Neuromodulation
Many neurological disorders are associated with impaired movement. Neuromodulation, the targeted electrical stimulation of nerve cells, can help to control altered neuronal network activity. A new Transregional Collaborative Research Center (SFB/Transregio) will now study the nature of the neuromodulation mechanisms which are responsible for a range of conditions.
Read more … DFG approves new Transregional Collaborative Research Center for Neuromodulation
by Linda Faye Tidwell
Peter Hegemann receives 2020 Shaw Prize
Gero Miesenböck, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel receive the 2020 Prize in Life Science & Medicine!
by Linda Faye Tidwell
New ECN Website Section: Mental Health
Happy to announce our new website section Mental Health in cooperation with Scholar Minds, which is a self-organized-initiative of PhD students at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin trying to provide the Berlin neuroscience community with some relief.
by Linda Faye Tidwell
Scientists decipher further mechanism for memory formation
A research group led by Professor Dietmar Schmitz of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has pinpointed the area of the brain involved in transferring memory-associated information into long-term memory. The results have now been published in Nature Communications*.
Read more … Scientists decipher further mechanism for memory formation