Our brains enable an array of amazing properties that we enjoy unconsciously on an every-day, every-moment basis: We listen to great music and react with limb movement and emotional involvement, almost as if it were automatic, natural and intuitive. We exercise and practice strenuous kinds of sports to feel better Read more…
Collaborative Science Symposium in Africa Inspired by the educational programs of the non-profit organization TReND in Africa1, we – a group of seven volunteers – organized a two-week Collaborative Science Symposium at the Universities of Zambia (UNZA, Zambia) and Nairobi (Kenya). Our team consisted of highly motivated researchers that sought Read more…
Any discussion on prosthetic arms must inevitably start (or end) with Luke’s hand from The Empire Strikes Back. It was, for any prosthetics researcher or aficionado, the holy grail of the field: a hand that looks like a human hand, moves like a human hand, and responds to stimuli like Read more…
On the first week of February, researchers from around the world gathered in Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Tübingen to discuss the relationship between sex hormones and the brain. It was truly inspiring to see clinicians (gynecologist, psychiatrist, urologist), neuroscientists, psychologists and biologists actively interacting with Read more…
With the advancement of medicine and health practices in the modern era, the average age of the population has increased. The healthcare system has continually been pushed to adapt in order to properly care for these elderly individuals and the health problems that arise with age. Advanced age in itself Read more…
Introducing new scientists in Tübingen – presenting: Dr. Ivana Nikić- Spiegel The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is part of the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen and provides space for many renowned, systems-oriented neuroscientists. In this article, I interview Dr. Ivana Nikić-Spiegel, a new Junior Read more…
On October 8th, 2016, about a dozen people sat in an auditorium in Zürich and raced each other purely with their thoughts. Hooked up to various computers and sensors, they used their brain activity to control the avatars in a racing game, bypassing the entire physical body to talk to Read more…
Visual ecology in the deep sea: bioluminescence The deep sea is by far the largest habitat on earth and yet our knowledge about its inhabitants is rudimentary at best, and progressing only slowly. Historic concepts about the deep sea as a lifeless desert have long been proven wrong, just as the Read more…