Find here our news, the NeuroAgenda of April 2024 and our publications of March 2024.

A UNIGE team has developed an AI capable of learning a task solely on the basis of verbal instructions. And to do the same with a «sister» AI.  The UNIGE team worked on artificial neural networks, inspired by our biological neurons and the way they transmit electrical signals to each other in the brain. © … Continued

A UNIGE team shows that our ability to produce dopamine – the «happiness hormone» – is not correlated with increased vulnerability to drugs. Index of dopamine synthesis capacity, in high- and low-impulsive rats before and after repeated cocaine self-administration. © 2024 Urueña-Ménedez et al. Why do some people who try drugs struggle with substance abuse … Continued

A team from the UNIGE, the HUG and the IRCCS has drawn up recommendations for the effective and individualised use of biomarkers in memory clinics for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. This diagnostic pathway has been developed on the basis of the scientific literature and from the practical experience of the specialists. © HUG A … Continued

We are pleased to announce the launch in 2024 of a Brain Research Support Award for Master’s students in neuroscience at the University of Geneva. It is a great honor bestowed upon us by the Vasco Sanz Association, established in 2009 in memory of a young neuroscience student in our program, to add a momentum … Continued

A UNIGE team shows how visual social skills develop in a unique way in children with autistic disorders.  A cartoon depicting different interactions was shown to each child, with or without autistic spectrum disorders. Using an eye-tracking device attached to the screen, the researchers were able to assess the participants’ social attention. © Adobe Stock … Continued

A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalisations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own.  The UNIGE team wanted to find out whether the frontal and orbitofrontal regions of our brain activate in the same … Continued

Professor Habib Zaidi, Associate Physicist in charge of the Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory, and Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, has been awarded the John Mallard Award during the International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP 2023) https://icmp2023.org/, held from December 6 to 9, 2024, in Mumbai, India. The award, … Continued

The Japan Neuroscience Society here extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Denis Jabaudon of the 2022 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. Submitted articles Telley* L, Agirman* G, Prados J, Amberg N, Fièvre S, Oberst P, Bartolini G, Vitali I, Cadilhac C, Hippenmeyer S, Nguyen L, Dayer A, and Jabaudon D. Temporal patterning of apical … Continued