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European Research Council finances project in Clinical Neurobiology
Dr Schlesiger’s ERC project is entitled “How do drug-associated contexts drive behaviour? The role of entorhinal circuitry in addiction” (DrugsAndMemory). In it, the neuroscientist explores the neuronal basis for the observation that in addiction, relapse to drug use is strongly dependent on the environmental context: Why do many drug addicts successfully refrain from drug use when undergoing therapy in a rehabilitation clinic, but relapse to drug use upon return to their familiar environment? A central aspect of addiction, and a great challenge for effective therapy, is the tendency to fall back into addiction in environments in which drugs were previously taken, Magdalene Schlesiger explains. In her project DrugsAndMemory, the scientist investigates, in mouse models of addiction, how neuronal circuits change when particular environments are associated with drug use and how these changes, eventually, give rise to context-triggered relapse to drug use. More... |
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Dietmar Hopp Stiftung fördert Erforschung eines neuen Therapiekonzepts bei wiederkehrenden Hirntumoren mit 1,8 Millionen EuroNeurochirurgische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg startet Projekt zu Kombinationstherapie bei nachgewachsenem Glioblastom: Können die zielgenaue Erhitzung über eine Lasersonde und Medikamententests an Minitumoren dazu beitragen, weiteres Tumorwachstum zu verlangsamen?Glio |
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Spotlight: Using light and sound to see into the brainResearchers in the Prevedel Group use this spectroscopy setup to test and optimise photoacoustic probes before their usage in mouse neuroscience.
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Open positions at the IZN
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The group of Dr. Magdalene Schlesiger has positions open for PhD, Medical and Master students. The projects aim to investigate how the formation of long-term memories is altered by the addiction to drugs such as amphetamine and cocaine and will use sophisticated electrophysiological in vivo recordings from large ensembles of neurons in mice performing memory tasks.
Posted 07.2023
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