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14.02.2013 The hunt for mirror neurons – not every technique picks them up.

Researchers in Tübingen have been studying how mirror neurons, which are assumed to be key to the understanding of behaviour, respond when the same action is repeatedly observed. They found answers in the cerebral cortex of...

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22.10.2012 Immune cells of the blood might replace dysfunctional brain cells

Tübingen, 22th of October 2012. Blood-circulating immune cells can take over the essential immune surveillance of the brain, this is shown by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Hertie...

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16.07.2012 New insights into the genetic architecture of Parkinson’s disease

Scientists at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the University Hospital of Tübingen have – as leaders of a large, international joint study – demonstrated the significance of new genetic risk factors for...

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27.06.2012 Fast cerebellar networks compensate for inadequacies of the sensory system

Biological control of body movements with its versatility and elegance remains unsurpassed compared to that of any man-made machine and continues to thrill and delight us, both by watching or by performing them ourselves. Top...

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21.10.2010 Peripheral Induction of Alzheimer-Like Brain Pathology in Mice

Tübingen, 21 October 2010. Pathological protein deposits linked to Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy can be triggered not only by the administration of pathogenic misfolded protein fragments directly into the...

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12.04.2010 Familial Danish Dementia shares similarities to Alzheimer's disease

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA, researchers in the Department of Cellular Neurology at the Hertie- Institute for Clinical Brain Research (University of Tübingen, Germany)...

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19.10.2009 Alzheimer mice: Microglia cells are neither involved in formation nor clearance of amyloid deposits

In a study published in Nature Neuroscience Stefan Grathwohl and the team of Mathias Jucker (Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen) managed, in collaboration with the team of Frank Heppner...

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28.07.2009 Alzheimer pathology can be induced by a prion-like mechanism but is not infectious like BSE

Smallest amounts of externally applied misfolded protein molecules can trigger a cascade of protein misfoldings and plaque formation, as they are found in Alzheimer´s disease. However, this occurs only when the brain is brought...

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17.02.2009 The Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience and the Tübingen partner institute of the German Helmholtz Research Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases invite applications for 6 PhD Scholarships in Neurodegeneration of the Aging Brain or related topics

For details see "scholarships (PDF)"

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