2017

The NCM Lab currently has a PhD Position on ‘Optogenetic and Pharmacogenetic functional MRI in brain circuits underlying social motivation and repetitive behavior’. 

This years NCM Lab retreat was a successful mix of science and team building activities at Lake Constance.

Several interesting papers have been published by NCM Lab members and collaborators over the past few months.

The study introduces a novel approach to focally perturb deep sleep in motor cortex, and investigates the consequences on behavioural and neurophysiological markers of neuroplasticity arising from dedicated motor practice. The work demonstrates that the capacity to undergo neuroplastic changes is reduced by wakefulness but restored during unperturbed sleep.

The Frontiers eBook (published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience) titled Online and offline Modulators of Motor Learning has just been published. Two contributions from the lab are included: 1) A Day Awake Attenuates Motor Learning-Induced Increases in Corticomotor Excitability and 2) Reconsolidation of Motor Memories Is a Time-Dependent Process.

Quanying has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Brain Network Imaging based on High-density Electroencephalography’. Quanying is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Dante Mantini in the BIND group at KU Leuven.

Congratulations to Marc on receiving the award in the Systems and Behavioural Neuroscience Category at this years Swiss Society for Neuroscience meeting.

In the recent issue of Brain (Jan 2017), work was published from the NCM Lab - lead by Dr. Joshua Henk Balsters – investigating social decision making in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).