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Risks of eating disorders revealed from childhood
Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland and the United States highlight the link between abnormal body weight in very young children and a higher risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence.
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How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
UNIGE scientists uncover the role of synaptic feedback systems in shaping learning processes in the brain’s cortex – a discovery that may prove valuable for developing efficient artificial intelligence.
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Overcoming eating disorders
Head of the Service of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (SPEA) since October 2017, Prof. Nadia Micali is an internationally recognized expert on eating disorders and eating behaviour. She talks to us about these problems that affect 10% of children and a quarter of adolescents.
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Drugs of abuse : identifying the addiction circuit
What happens in the brain of compulsive drug users? UNIGE researchers have pinpointed the circuit of the brain that controls addictive behaviour.
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Dopamine, a key component of heroin addiction
UNIGE scientists have deciphered the decisive role of dopamine in heroin addiction mechanisms, also paving the way for non-addictive analgesic treatments and drugs.
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Resynchronizing neurons to erase schizophrenia
By increasing the excitability of a subpopulation of “defective” inhibitory neurons, researchers at the UNIGE restore the synchronization of neural networks in the hippocampus, and are thus able to suppress certain behavioural symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
