Electron microscopy can resolve synapse ultrastructure with nanometer precision, but the capture of time-resolved...
Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Tuning in on cortical circuit dynamics
Neurons use homeostatic mechanisms to maintain stability despite experience-dependent network alterations. Neural...
Neural networks in the spotlight
Scientists develop a computational model to predict and interpret the outcome of optogenetic experiments. Optogenetic...
Tatjana Tchumatchenko has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, has received this prestigious...
Deletion of NRXN1α impairs long-range and local connectivity in...
Neurexins are a family of presynaptic cell adhesion proteins that regulate synaptic structure and maintain normal synaptic...
The distinct talin2 structure directs isoform specificity
Integrin receptors regulate normal cell function processes such as signaling, cell migration, adhesion to the...
Low-threshold spiking interneurons perform feedback inhibition...
Amygdala plays crucial roles in emotional learning. The lateral amygdala (LA) is the input station of the amygdala, where...
ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2020 awarded to Erin Schuman
Professor Erin Schuman has been awarded the Diversity prize 2020 for her contribution to advancing gender equality in...
Dissecting the architecture of the brain
Scientists immerse themselves into the structure of networks Under the framework of a new Marie Skłodowska Curie...
MPFI Announces New Research Group Leader: Dr. Vidhya Rangaraju
Dr. Vidhya Rangaraju was recently recruited by the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) to investigate...