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How are people with psychiatric conditions faring during the COVID-19 pandemic? A new global study from the Nencki Institute sheds light

13.01.2021

With over 72 million cases and 1.6 million deaths worldwide, COVID-19 has emerged as an alarming cause of fear, devastation, grief, paranoia, anxiety, and depression across the glove. A new study from the BRAINCITY Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland and University of Zurich, Switzerland published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry has shown that between one half to two-thirds of the patients with ...

The sound of silent synapses – what is going on in the alcohol addicted brain?

10.12.2019

Research carried out in the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Behavior, describes cellular processes specific to the brain of alcohol addicted mice. The behavior of an alcohol addict ...

I don’t see, but I recognize – how the brain recognizes faces without consciousness

09.04.2019

During each moment, a vast amount of different stimuli reach our senses – sounds, sensations, and objects in the field of view. Since the capacity of our attention is limited, we only processes a ...

The world of science honours 100 years of achievements of the Nencki Institute

09.12.2018

On 15-16th November, over 400 representatives of science from Poland and abroad, participated in a jubilee two-day conference organized in Warsaw, to celebrate 100 years of the Nencki Institute ...