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Stress transmitter wakes your brain more than 100 times a night – and it is perfectly normal

You may think that a good night’s sleep should be uninterrupted. But in fact, the neurotransmitter noradrenaline causes you to wake up more than 100 times a night, new research from the University of Copenhagen…

Why it isn’t always your fault when you can’t remember

We have all been there. Somehow, we procrastinate to the point where we fail to achieve our daily goals. Research has shown that there are several factors that determine whether we remember to do our daily tasks or not.

Danish scientists gain new understanding about water on the brain

Article from the Lundbeck Foundation. Is the drain clogged? This tends to be our first thought when discovering the basement flooded with water. And this is a thought doctors and neurologists also recognise as they seek…

Genetic researchers can now explain different types of migraine

The world's largest gene study on migraine describes, for the first time, the genetic differences between migraine with and without aura.

Claire Meehan and Kenneth Madsen each receive the LF Experiments Grant of DKK 2 Million

26 researchers at Danish universities are receiving funding to conduct innovative neuroscience projects under the Lundbeck Foundation’s LF Experiments research programme. Among these are Claire Meehan and Kenneth Madsen…

Ulrik Gether receives a Lundbeck Foundation Professorship of DKK 40 million

DKK 177 million goes to six of Denmark’s most outstanding professors of neuroscience. Head of Department of Neuroscience, Prof. Ulrik Gether receives the LF Professorship of DKK 39,998,934 to continue his research on…

Cordelia Imig awarded Jennifer N. Bourne Prize in Brain Ultrastructure

Assistant Professor Cordelia Imig receives Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Early Career Award of $5,000.

The antidepressant drug vilazodone is an allosteric inhibitor of the serotonin transporter

Surprising information can come to light when you study a chemical substance at atomic level resolution – details that overturn hitherto accepted knowledge and offer unprecedented potential. This is what the members of …

BrainH2O

In August, Professor Nanna MacAulay hosted a translational conference on brain fluids, encompassing clinical research on brain pathologies involving disturbed brain fluid dynamics, basic research on brain fluid…

Three researchers from Department of Neuroscience receive in total 6 Million from the Lundbeck Foundation

Andreas Toft Sørensen, Ilary Allodi and Rune Berg have each received a grant of 2 Million from the Lundbeck Foundation LF Experiments research programme.

Promising research into medical treatment for cocaine abuse

Claus Juul Løland has just received support from the Lundbeck Foundation in the form of an Ascending Investigator research grant of DKK 5 million. And if everything goes as the Danish-American research team hopes, the…

Brain Research is Facing a New Era

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen has strengthened research and education in brain diseases with a new master's degree programme, placing the Department at the centre of brain research in…

Difficult to Return to Work After a Concussion

People suffering from long-term effects of a concussion find it difficult to return to work shows research from the University of Copenhagen.

3D breakthrough: Now anyone can print an interactive model of the brain

A new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen allows anyone to print interactive 3D objects. These might include models of the brain, to be used as educational tools.

Young scientists from Department of Neuroscience win prizes for best poster presentations at NeuroGrad Winter School 2020

Young scientists from Department of Neuroscience won 1st (Sara Lolansen, MacAulay lab) and 3rd (Maite Marcantoni, Kiehn lab) prize for best poster presentations. Sara also received the 3rd prize for best abstract.

Birgitte Rahbek Kornum receives DKK 4.5 Mio. from the Carlsberg Foundation

Associate Professor Birgitte Rahbek Kornum has been awarded the Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship of DKK 4.481.103 for the project ‘Neuronal regulation of sleep and wakefulness during sickness’. The…

Department of Neuroscience receives DKK 55 million from the Lundbeck Foundation

The Lundbeck Foundation has decided to support five projects at Department of Neuroscience which all aim at finding the cause for different brain diseases. Prof. Ulrik Gether and Assis. Prof. Freja Herborg receive DKK…