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Providing alternative fuel for the brain in anorexia nervosa: a review of the literature on ketones and their effects on metabolism and the brain - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Providing alternative fuel for the brain in anorexia nervosa: a review of the literature on ketones and their effects on metabolism and the brain

Prof. Carmen Sandi's @carmensandi10.bsky.social group reviews the potential for modulation of metabolic pathways to treat anorexia nervosa - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation and #FENS are thrilled to announce the winner of the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award in Translational Neuroscience 2026: Prof. Carmen Sandi (@carmensandi10.bsky.social)! 🧠

👉 https://loom.ly/Uh0TghU

The group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Henry Markram shows that glucose-dependent N-glycosylation drives variability in the Kv3.4 ion channel, regulating activity & cell excitability. N-glycosylation regulation may link neurological disorders & glucose metabolism: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

How do we weigh curiosity, effort, and reward? The labs of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professors Wulfram Gerstner & Michael Herzog find humans overexplore when seeking monetary reward, drawn to novel options even when more exploration offers no advantage. Explore the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New study by the group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows that three mitochondrial associated metabolites in the dmPFC/dACC brain region can predict mental effort choices - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last chance to apply for the EPFL Neuroscience tenure track assistant professor faculty position - the deadline is tomorrow October 1. Submit now! go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty.

Group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social + Giovanni D’Angelo lab, use MS imaging & a novel analytical framework to map the 4D distribution >100 lipids in zebrafish & find unexpected distributions 👉 unknown developmental roles - doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure worldwide. The lab of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Michael Herzog shows that in addition to visual acuity, cataracts also affect low-level visual processing, which should be considered in ophthalmic clinical care doi.org/10.1167/jov....

The group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows Corticotropin-releasing Hormone (CRH) modulates the thalamic reticular nucleus brain region to affect sleep, linking CRH with sleep impairment due to stress and anxiety- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Prof. Carmen Sandi's lab @carmensandi10.bsky.social show Urolithin A (UA), a gut microbiota-derived metabolite, can alleviate anxiety in rodents including behaviour, mitochondria & neuronal features. UA could be a new treatment for chronic anxiety doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

The group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Prof. Michael Herzog (also + @carmensandi10.bsky.social) show that human social dominance, a key social interaction factor, is a stable personality trait, has reliable specific brain EEG markers which in females mirror those in males doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Action potential 👉 3 faculty opportunities to join EPFL neuroscience 1. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Neuroscience go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty, 2. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Life Sciences Engineering, or 3. Associate Professor (tenured) in Life Sciences Engineering go.epfl.ch/LSEfaculty

We are happy to announce an opening for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Neuroscience at EPFL. Join our groups working on cellular & circuit neuroscience & neurocomputation - go.epfl.ch/brain. Application deadline is Oct 1 2025. Apply now 👉 go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty

blu.ski/@epfl-brainmind professor Michael Herzog & team show that while older adults perform initially less efficiently in reinforcement learning tasks, given sufficient trials, they could perform as well as young adults. 👉 ageing does not universally impair performance: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here EPFL researchers introduce CellSeg3D, a self-supervised tool for 3D cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy, eliminating the need for manual labeling and enhancing accessibility for various biolo...

New tool CellSeg3D, from the group of blu.ski/@epfl-brainmind professor Mackenzie Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social enables self-supervised 3D cell segmentation in fluorescent microscopy,👇 labeling time & 👆quantitative analysis -
paper: elifesciences.org/articles/99848
news: tinyurl.com/y2hpmbb9

Amazing hierarchical & multimodal wild animal behavior recognition + segmentation from the group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social. See the demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZjk... story: actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-moni... & paper: arxiv.org/html/2503.18...

The @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social lab of Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social together with @maweigert.bsky.social develop Spotiflow, a deep learning method for subpixel-accurate spot detection in 2D & 3D images, a crucial tool for many life-science applications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lab of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social show that task-driven models of proprioception, similar to proprioception in vivo, have illusions & that the vibration frequency of primary afferents alone can explain them - doi.org/10.1113/EP09....

Congratulations to @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor @carmensandi10.bsky.social on winning the 2025 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award - www.ecnp.eu/news/press-o...

EEG measures are often used to explain differences in performance between groups, however the lab of
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Michael Herzog, using EEG & visual tests, shows these measures mainly reflect stable traits of participants rather than test performance doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.

Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org

I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE

www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Really thrilled to be part of the Simons collaboration for ecological neuroscience - www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

“Fruit flies are a major source of inspiration in robotics” Researchers at EPFL’s Neuroengineering Laboratory, led by Pavan Ramdya, aim to replicate the workings of the brain of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We spoke with Ramdya about the exci...

@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Pavan Ramdya discusses how studies of #drosophila can inspire novel robots. - actu.epfl.ch/news/fruit-f...

Hiring! Postdoc position in Human Metabolism!
Join us to explore the metabolic underpinnings of human brain & behavior; focusing on anxiety & motivation
Outstanding interdisciplinary environment @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland
Info here: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Climbing out of the lab: Studying motor planning and coarticulation in the climbing gym | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society Your browser does not support iframes.

New editorial focus article by @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social together with Andy Bonnetto - Climbing out of the lab: Studying motor planning and coarticulation in the climbing gym doi.org/10.1152/jn.0...

Many congratulations to lab member Medha Raman for winning the EPFL final of MT180 - My Thesis in 180 seconds

FENS–Chen Institute–NeuroLéman Summer School The application form and further details can be found in the tabs above the title. The FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman Summer School Series on Brain Dynamics in Health and Disease explores cutting…

One week left to register for the 2025 NeuroLeman-Chen-FENS summer school. Spend September learning by the lake! A joint initiative of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, NeuroLéman and @fens.org - www.fens.org/news-activit...

Applications for PhD positions in neuroscience at EPFL are now being accepted www.epfl.ch/education/ph.... Join the exciting research programs of the @trackingskills.bsky.social, @trackingactions.bsky.social, @mccabelab.org, Carl Petersen or Pavan Ramdya groups. Deadline April 15 2025 - Apply today!

Unveiling the Path to ALS Therapies: A Journey from Flies to Humans - Target ALS Exploration of ALS biology has found new momentum through innovative research led by Brian McCabe, Bernard Schneider, and Sabine Liebscher. Their work, funded by Target ALS, sheds light on novel thera...

Thank you to Target ALS for highlighting the work on #ALS in our laboratory together with Bernard Schneider and Sabine Liebscher. We are very grateful for your funding and unflagging support - www.targetals.org/2025/03/04/i...

New study by @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carl Petersen's group shows that cortical motor maps, which organize voluntary motor control, can be decomposed into cell-class defined modules with specific plasticity. These modules may interact to control movement - doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...