LATEST NEWS

• Recently published: 'Effects of early life stress and subsequent re-exposure to stress on neuronal activity in the lateral habenula'.
  

• In cooperation with the group of Csaba Földy from the Brain Research Institute Zurich we published a paper on the transcriptomic profiles of NPY-positive interneurons entitled: 'Transcriptomically-guided pharmacological experiments in neocortical and hippocampal NPY-positive GABAergic interneurons'.

• Together with Salvatore Lecca from the University of Lausanne we wrote a review on inhibition in the lateral habenula that is available here: 'Inhibition within the lateral habenula – Implications for affective disorders'.

Our main research interest lies in understanding the role of various types of neurons in cortical and subcortical meso- and microcircuits.
 

Using state-of-art techniques such as Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2)-assisted circuit mapping, electrophysiological methods, immunohistochemistry and anatomical reconstructions we aim to investigate the balance between excitation and inhibition, and the cause and mechanisms of neuronal hyperexcitability in disease.