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A gentle method for unlocking the mysteries of the deep brain
Researchers at UNIGE have successfully demonstrated that electroencephalography can be used to accurately study activity in the deep areas of the brain. The way is now open to understanding how these regions interact with other parts of the brain for developing appropriate treatments following dysfunction.
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The rewards of translational work
To bring bench work to bedside there has to be an element of translation. Researchers and clinicians need to collaborate to interpret the findings found in mice and how they can relate to the human patient. Dr Camilla Bellone and Dr Marie Schaer explain just how they are achieving this in the NCCR-Synapsy autism spectrum disorder project.
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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.
