The Dementia Research Unit is a clinical research unit of the Department of Cellular Neurology and the Department of Psychiatry. It closely collaborates with the outpatient Memory Clinic.
Nerve cells communicate with each other by means of electrical signals. Notably, these electrical signals, so called action potentials, seem to differ characteristically between distinct types of…
Microsaccades are not involuntary, spontaneous eye movements, as it has been assumed. Instead, we can perform them at will. A team led by Professor Dr. Ziad Hafed provide evidence against the…
Everyone knows the situation when we can't think of something we knew a short time ago. Why can't we always call up this knowledge? The Hertie Foundation deals with our memory in its current video.…
A new study by scientists from Tübingen shows that measurement results of various common methods for the determination of brain activity can be largely directly correlated. Two of…
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gasser has been admitted to the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The ceremonial welcome as a new academy member took place on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, in Halle (Saale). “The…
The HIH is currently seeking young and highly motivated scientists from all over the world who wish to set up their own independent junior research group. Interested applicants should want to pursue…
As part of the Children's University Researcher's Day on July 6, Dr. Deborah Kronenberg-Versteeg, Prof. Mathias Jucker and many staff members of the department Cellular Neurology welcomed 30 children…
Many of us know the phenomenon from everyday life: although we urgently need to do important things, we are constantly distracted by our mobile phones. Why can our brain still be outwitted? The…
