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Regeneration in a hostile environment - Cancer drug promotes regeneration of damaged neurons.
DZNE researchers show in Science: Cancer drug epothilone promotes neuronal regeneration and improves motor skills after experimental spinal cord injury.
Dr. Sabine Helling-Moegen is the new Administrative Director of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Together with Professor Pierluigi Nicotera, Chairman of the Executive Board and Scientific Director, Helling-Moegen leads the research institute with more than 800 employees spread across nine sites in Germany. Dr. Helling-Moegen works in the administrative…
Brain Researchers Pinpoint Gateway to Human Memory
An international team led by researchers of the University of Magdeburg and the DZNE has successfully determined the location, where memories are generated with a level of precision never achieved before. To this end the scientists used a particularly accurate…
Alzheimer’s disease: Molecular signals cause brain cells to switch into a hectic state
Through experimental studies scientists of the DZNE at the Bonn and Berlin sites have now gained new insights into how Alzheimer’s interferes with the metabolism of astrocytes.
Diseases of the Brain: Computer Model of Nerve Cells Provides Insights into Communication Problems
In diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s, the neurons fail to communicate correctly with each other. As researchers of the DZNE now report in the journal “Neuron“, these connectivity problems can be ascribed to alterations in the structure of the nerve…
From California to Berlin: international neuroscientist Craig Garner strengthens the collaboration of DZNE and Charité
Prof. Craig Garner, jointly appointed by both institutions, studies dementia, with a particular focus on synapses. His aim is to develop therapies that restore disturbed communication between brain cells.
Physical exercise in old age can stimulate brain fitness, but effect decreases with advancing age
Physical exercise in old age can improve brain perfusion as well as certain memory skills. This is the finding of Magdeburg neuroscientists who studied women and men aged between 60 and 77.
DZNE researcher elected into the Leopoldina
Prof. Frank Bradke , head of the "Axon Growth and Regeneration" research group at the DZNE in Bonn, has been elected as a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences.
Symbolic corner stone was laid by the DZNE: National Health Research in Bonn
One of the largest and most advanced research buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia is currently being erected in Bonn. It comprises approximately 16,000 square meters of usable area.
A protein couple controls flow of information into the brain’s memory center
DZNE researchers have determined how two molecules known as ‘CKAMP44’ and ‘TARP Gamma-8’ act upon the transmission of nerve signals into the hippocampus.