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of health and disease
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mechanisms that enable
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Jan 06, 2022

The neuronal mechanism behind motivation

Our actions are motivated by the goals we want to achieve. However, little is known about the mechanism in our brains that allow us to make the right decisions to reach our goals. Researchers in the Lüthi lab now identified the sequence of events taking place in a mouse brain when the mouse behaves in a certain way to obtain a reward, and how it can adapt its behavior when the reward is not the one expected.

Dec 23, 2021

How neurons that wire together fire together
Dec 10, 2021

Mechanical forces shape the ‘immortal’ Hydra

About the FMI

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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Jan 7, 2022

A neuronal mechanism for motivational control of behavior.

Courtin J, Bitterman Y, Müller S, Hinz J, Hagihara KM, Müller C, Lüthi A

Science
Dec 20, 2021

Joan Hunt Senior award lecture: New tools to shed light on the 'black box' of pregnancy.

Burton GJ, Turco MY

Placenta
Dec 17, 2021

Sucrose gradient chromatin enrichment for quantitative proteomics analysis in budding yeast.

Challa K, Seebacher J, Gasser SM

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Dec 13, 2021

Nonlinear transient amplification in recurrent neural networks with short-term plasticity.

Wu YK, Zenke F

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