New research leads the way in validating a promising human brain model The human brain is one of the most complex organs...
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Two Japanese prizes for Hiroaki Norimoto (Laurent Lab)
Postdoc Hiroaki Norimoto has been awarded a grant from Kanae Foundation as well as the prestigious Inoue Research Award...
Two Postdocs from the Laurent Lab receive a Humboldt Fellowship
The Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers will allow Sara Haddad and Shahaf Weiss to work on their...
Julijana Gjorgjieva has been awarded the 2018 Research Prize...
Julijana Gjorgjieva is one of the four Max Planck Research Group Leaders at the Institute and received the Research Prize...
Elucidating the control and development of skin patterning in...
Few animals provide a readout that is as objective of their perceptual state as camouflaging cephalopods. Their skin...
Competition for synaptic building blocks shapes synaptic...
Changes in the efficacies of synapses are thought to be the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. The efficacy of...
Blood vessels instruct brain development
Neurovascular communication in the brain Function and homeostasis of the brain relies on communication between the complex...
Julijana Gjorgjieva has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Research Group Leader Julijana Gjorgjieva at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has received this prestigious...
Working memory training in congenitally blind individuals...
The functional relevance of crossmodal activation (e.g. auditory activation of occipital brain regions) in congenitally...
Tracing cerebral cortex evolution, cell by cell
Molecular atlases of turtle and lizard brains shed light on the evolution of our own brain. Our cerebral cortex, a sheet...