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Bonn (Germany), December 6th, 2016. In order to guide us accurately through space, the brain needs a “sense” of the speed of our movement. But how do such stimuli actually reach the brain? Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative
Read moreIn a study published in the journal Neuron, researchers from the group of Dr. Martin Fuhrmann report on the role of hippocampal interneurons in Alzheimer’s disease. They identify synaptic rewiring deficits on the input and output side of O-LM interneurons
Read moreNearby neurons in sensory cortices display correlated ongoing and sensory-evoked activity. What gives rise to this synchronous activity is mostly unknown. On the one hand cortical synchrony may reflect shared and correlated inputs from the thalamus, which is the sub-cortical structure
Read moreReleasing molecular brake allowed damaged neurons to regenerate Bonn (Germany), October 6th, 2016 – Injuries to the spinal cord can cause paralysis and other permanent disabilities because severed nerve fibers do not regrow. Now, scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Read moreSFB PIs decode important modulatory pathway. Read more here. Find the paper here.
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Dr. Sandra Blaess from the Department of Reconstructive Neurobiology, Life & Brain Center of the University of Bonn, and associate Member of the SFB1089 has been awarded a prestigious Heisenberg-Stipend of the DFG. The award will support her work for
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Read moreDuring systems-level consolidation, mnemonic representations initially reliant on the hippocampus are thought to migrate to neocortical sites for more permanent storage, with an eminent role of sleep for facilitating this information transfer. Mechanistically, consolidation processes have been hypothesized to rely on
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A study at the University of Bonn revealed an unexpected difference in the information processing of humans and apes. Both can recognize very quickly, whereas a counterpart looks. The evaluation of the viewing direction is carried out in monkeys in so-called Amygdala,
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SFB Scientists discover altered grid-cell like representations in the entorhinal cortex of humans with genetic risk for AD. To see the press release click here. To see the paper click here, please.
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