News about The brain

Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty

It is not vast amounts of online information that makes it difficult for you to stay focused. It is rather the easily accessible possibilities for novelty and action built into digital technology that your mind cannot…

Researchers find a cause of Parkinson’s disease

A significant breakthrough sheds light on the underlying mechanisms of Parkinson's disease, offering the potential for innovative treatments in the future.

Jellyfish are smarter than you think

Jellyfish are more advanced than once thought. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a much more complex level than ever imagined – despite only having…

Activity is important for your brain – and for the prevention of Alzheimer's

Exercising and maintaining a healthy lifestyle are some of the ways in which we can keep our blood vessels flexible, enabling them to retain the ability to pump blood around the body. This is not only important for the…

New brain cells can replace diseased and aged cells. That may help people with severe brain diseases

Diseases such as Huntington's disease, ALS, and schizophrenia, are debilitating and difficult to treat. Now, research suggests that the diseased brain cells can be replaced with new ones, offering hope for effective…

Nerve cells in the brain can halt all movement – even breathing

A group of nerve cells in the brain has the remarkable ability to completely stop all forms of movement, a new mouse study shows. The discovery provides valuable insight into how the nervous system can control our…

Bacteria from your mouth can end up in your brain. Now dentists at Rigshospitalet have to examine patients more often

Bacteria in your mouth can cause diseases in other parts of the body. New research from the Department of Odontology at the University of Copenhagen helps change treatment procedures at Rigshospitalet.

Nanna MacAulay receives LF Scientific Enrichment Prize 2023

Professor Nanna MacAulay has personality tests at the ready and an eye for diversity when putting together research teams. Her work testifies to the importance of different perspectives, methods, disciplines and…

Brain scientist receives the Anders Jahre Award for discovering the brain’s cleaning system

Professor Maiken Nedergaard receives the prestigious medical Anders Jahre Award 2023 for her ground-breaking brain research which has led to the discovery and description the brain’s cleaning system, the glymphatic…

4 researchers from Department of Neuroscience receives grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Claus Juul Løland, Jakob Balslev Sørensen, Jens-Francois Perrier and Jens Bo Nielsen receive funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). The grants come from the DFF Research Project 1 and DFF Research…

Ceremedy lands an agreement with global pharmaceutical company

The three KU researchers Petrine Wellendorph, Bente Frølund and Birgitte Kornum are behind Ceremedy. Also joining the company is Casper Tind Hansen, who has experience with business development within biotech. The smal…

Rune Berg receives the Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator grant of DKK 10,000,000

Every day, we elegantly and effortlessly move our bodies. The brain generates the commands to contract muscles and, in this way, orchestrates the motion. But how do we do it? How do our brains do it? It is a fundamental…

Mikkelsen Lab receives grants of DKK 9,600,000

The Novo Nordisk Foundation grant of DKK 8,047,826 has been provided support the application with the title "Synaptogenesis and Neuroinflammation in Epilepsy". The project is in collaboration with Lars Pinborg, MD,…

A CAN-group master student is Brain Battle finalist

Collin A. Shampine is one of three finalists in the Lundbeck Brain Battle, an annual competition MSc students or MSc graduates seeking an industrial PhD in neuroscience at Lundbeck.

First Parkinson’s patient administered a stem cell-based transplant

A patient suffering from moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD) has received a transplant with the human stem cell-derived nerve cell product STEM-PD in a clinical trial at Skåne University Hospital in southern Sweden.

Depression can lead to memory dysfunction. This study may pave way for new drugs

PET scanning of patients has identified changes in the serotonin system in patients suffering from depression and memory dysfunction, a new joint study suggests.

Ilary Allodi featured in the Stories of Women in Neuroscience (WiN) podcast

“It is fitting that Dr. Ilary Allodi, who enjoys writing short stories in her free time, began her foray into neuroscience with a book. As a teenager, Ilary read Searching for Memory by Daniel Schacter, which details th…

Protein behavior in synthetic cells

Proteins may lose their normal function and lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This process, named protein aggregation, happens gradually in the brain over time, and it’s an…

Loved it! NeuroGrad Winter School F-2-F

After two years of corona-zoom versions – were the PhD students in neuroscience, the NeuroGrads, able to assemble for their yearly day of sharing their science at NeuroGrad Winter School.

Department of Neuroscience part of two larger Collaboration Projects funded by the Lundbeck Foundation

David Gloriam and Rikke Møller receive funding for their projects in collaboration with Ulrik Gether, Jakob Balslev Sørensen and Jean-Francois Perrier.

Four researchers from ILF receive 114 mill DKK to expand our knowledge of the human brain

Four ambitious research projects supported by the Lundbeck Foundation will give us completely new insights into the human brain, hopefully paving the way for new treatments of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease,…

New theory about the neural network that controls walking

In an article from the Lundbech Foundation, the recent findings from the research team consisting of Rune Berg, Henrik Lindén, Peter Petersen and Mikkel Vestergaard, is presented. For decades, it has been thought that…

New study maps the development of the 20 most common psychiatric disorders

Nearly half of all psychiatric patients get a different diagnose within 10 years. New figures for diagnoses will help predict the course of psychiatric illnesses.

Agnete Kirkeby and her international colleagues receive permission to start stem cell trial on Parkinson’s patients

A novel stem cell treatment developed by Agnete Kirkeby and her colleagues at Lund University has received green light from the Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial in Parkinson’s disease. The…