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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!!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 memoryAbrous’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)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 behavioursCheck out the YouTube video of the last Nature's publication of Herry's lab!
le Wednesday 06 October 2021Herry'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 obesityCota’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...
le Friday 27 December 2019OptoPath 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 contextualizationPost-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 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 Cutting-edge translational research in obesity-linked memory deficits
OptoPath as if you were thereA virtual visit of OptoPath is now available online. It allows you to visit our premises and appreciate our cutting-edge equipment.