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Syn2Psy at the XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, Coimbra

Syn2Psy students Orsolya Antal, Giuseppe Cammarata and Elisa Corti participated in the XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, which was held on December 1-3 (2021) in Coimbra, Portugal. Orsolya Antal (ESR1) presented a poster entitled “Cognitive behavioural deficits in a knock-in mouse model with a human schizophrenia-associated mutation in the CACNG2 gene” by […]

Syn2Psy at the European Researchers’ Night, Coimbra

European Researchers’ Night 2021 was celebrated on September 24th under the topic Science for Climate. Syn2Psy ESRs Elisa Corti, Giuseppe Cammarata and Orsolya Antal joined the initiative with activities that create awareness about the influence of the physical environment on mental health and that promote knowledge about Neuroscience. The ESRs developed a True or False […]

Syn2Psy at the 49th EBBS meeting, Lausanne

Syn2Psy EPFL students Alessandro Chioino and Loredana Cumpana participated in the 49th Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society, which was held on September 4-7, 2021 in Lausanne, Swizzerland. Alessandro Chioino (ESR2) presented a poster entitled “Impact of Mfn2 in the Nucleus Accumbens on motivated behavior and underlying neurobiological mechanisms” by Alessandro Chioino, Sriparna […]

Review published by Daniel

Autoimmunity and NMDA receptor in brain disorders: Where do we stand? Daniel Hunter, Syn2Psy ESR6, is the first author of a review recently published on the journal Neurobiology of Disease, on autoimmunity and NMDA receptor in brain disorders. Abstract: Over the past decades, the identification of autoimmune encephalitis in which patients express autoantibodies directed against […]