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22q11 symposium at the 18th ESCAP congress in Vienna
Members of the group of Prof. Stephan Eliez, from the University of Geneva successfully finished the first Synapsy symposium at this year’s ESCAP congress in Vienna on Sunday June 30th. Topics covered neurodevelopmental and cognitive endophenotypes of psychosis vulnerability in 22q11DS.
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Schizophrenia: adolescence is the game-changer
Researchers at UNIGE have discovered that the development of the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory and emotions, is severely impacted in adolescence following the onset of the first psychotic symptoms.
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June-3 - Public Lecture by Prof. Alan Carleton
Public lecture by Professor Alan Carleton as part of his promotion to full professor in the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences. Title: Neural circuit symphony vs. cacophony in health and disease.
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Back to the sources of neural diversity
By deciphering the genetic programmes of neurons of the cerebral cortex, Swiss and Belgian researchers unravel the mechanisms controlling the genesis of cells in one of the most essential parts of our brain.
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Denis Jabaudon : Awardee of the Human Frontier Science Program 2019
Denis Jabaudon, professor in the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine and a specialist in development of cortical network , is the awardee of a major grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
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April-15 - Public Lecture Daniel Schechter
Public lecture (April 15) by Professor Daniel Schechter as part of his appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.