Hotspot Human Potential People aim at optimizing their health and well-being, for example by changing the way how to manage their lifestyle, and they try to maximize their current mental and physical health. Claudia Pama • September 23, 2014
Neuroscientists with DREADDs – don’t dread them! Growing long hair and waxing it until you get greasy locks isn’t that spectacular. But it’s not those DREADDs that we are talking about - neuroscientists have a new tool in their repertoire: Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs. Claudia Pama • June 17, 2014
Don't go to sleep! Feeling down? Perhaps experiencing some winter blues? Sleep deprivation might be the answer. Neuroscientists at Tufts University have revealed an interesting mechanism behind this puzzling solution, by investigating the role of astrocytes. Claudia Pama • November 11, 2013
Illuminate your mind: neuromodulation at the speed of light Optogenetics has been chosen as 'Method of the year 2010' by the journal Nature Methods. But what exactly is optogenetics? And how can we use this neuromodulation technique to better understand behaviour? Claudia Pama • May 27, 2013 • 1 comment
