“Neuroscience has been stuck”
Sebastian Seungs quest for the connectome
Alzheimer, autism, schizophrenia – the public expects neuroscience to explain these diseases. But brain researchers don´t even understand how neurons in a fly´s brain are activated by a moving stimulus. Sebastian Seung advocates a way out: connectomics.
The brain on sound
Jamie Tyler uses ultrasound to understand the brain
A new non-invasive technique to map and modulate the brain is gaining momentum: low frequency ultrasound. It works surprisingly well on bullfrogs, rats, and rabbits. What about humans?> more
Everybody is unequal
Health inequality: why the poor die earlier
The poor die ten years earlier than the rich. Social status is one of the strongest determinants of health quality – this is universally true. Public health researchers take a look at how inequality is leading to bad health, and what we could do about it.
A reform threatens psychiatric care
How to compensate psychiatric care?
Germany implements a new payment system for in-patient psychiatric care that psychiatrists fear will be detrimental to severely ill patients. > more
The Biology of Suicide
Why do people kill themselves?
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time.” So begins Virginia Woolf’s last note to her husband. A short time later she filled her overcoat pockets with stones and waded into the Ouse River near her house in Southern England.> more