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![LIVE WEBINAR : Exploring energy balance mechanisms in rodents using ad hoc tools](/images/pixel.gif)
Save the date: on Thursday, Jan 13, from 5 pm to 5:30 pm (CET) Daniela Cota (Optopath, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux) in collaboration with NSA will give a presentation of the tools...
![The workshop of Optopath is renewed!!](/images/pixel.gif)
Thanks to Alejandro working in Cyril Herry's lab, the workshop of Optopath is renewed with new tools and new expertise!
![Abrous's team in Molecular Psychiatry - The temporal origin of dentate granule neurons dictates their role in spatial memory](/images/pixel.gif)
Abrous’s team, in collaboration with Cyril Herry, Véronique Deroche, and Daniela Cota, has recently revealed the first evidence of an adolescence and adulthood neurogenesis in the hippocampal...
![Collaboration between the teams of V. Deroche (OptoPath) and P. Faure (ESPCI, Paris)](/images/pixel.gif)
Optogenetic experiment has been used to bidirectionally manipulate the VTA-NAc and VTA-Amg pathways to dissociate their contributions to anxiety-like behavior after nicotine injections. They have...
![Dynamical prefrontal population coding during defensive behaviours](/images/pixel.gif)
Check out the YouTube video of the last Nature's publication of Herry's lab!
![Herry's team in Nature - Dynamical prefrontal population coding during defensive behaviours](/images/pixel.gif)
Herry's team in Nature - Dynamical prefrontal population coding during defensive behaviours
Herry’s team has recently revealed the interdependency of two brain regions, the basolateral amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, in e xcessive avoidance while no significant danger .
![Cota's team in Cell Metabolism - Hypothalamic bile acid-TGR5 signaling protects from obesity](/images/pixel.gif)
Cota’s team has identified the hypothalamic TGR5 signaling as a key mediator of a top-down neural mechanism that counteracts diet-induced obesity. The highlights of the paper are: Diet-induced...
![OptoPath expert Cyril HERRY: one of the most influent researchers over the last 10 years!](/images/pixel.gif)
OptoPath expert Cyril HERRY: one of the most influent researchers over the last 10 years!
With 5200 citations over 2008-2018, and many publications in the top 1% of the most cited in his field, Dr Cyril Herry is now a member of the closed club of the most influent researchers as defined...
![Marighetto's team in Nature Communications - Preventing and treating PTSD-like memory by trauma contextualization](/images/pixel.gif)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by emotional hypermnesia on which preclinical studies focus so far. While this hypermnesia relates to salient traumatic cues, partial amnesia...
![An innovative system : Morphing Context for Fear Conditioning without animal handling](/images/pixel.gif)
Contextual fear-related studies require moving the rodent from one context to another, introducing non-specific neuronal activation. The Morphing Context apparatus, that we developed with...
![When experts in obesity meet experts in memory](/images/pixel.gif)
Cutting-edge translational research in obesity-linked memory deficits
![OptoPath as if you were there](/images/pixel.gif)
A virtual visit of OptoPath is now available online. It allows you to visit our premises and appreciate our cutting-edge equipment.