Big Questions in Neuroscience” Event

We are pleased to announce that our Lab’s Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Annette Horstmann will be pre­sent­ing at the upcom­ing event titled “Big Ques­tions in Neu­ro­science and Cur­rent Lim­its of Knowl­edge.” This engag­ing ses­sion will take place on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 11, 2024, from 15:15 to 16:15, fol­lowed by coffee/tea and dis­cus­sion, at...

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Grant news!!!

We are thrilled to announce that our Doc­tor­al Researcher, Manon Chédev­ille, has been award­ed a pres­ti­gious three-year iCAN­DOC grant to con­duct ground­break­ing research on the LUMINA project (Long-term Under­stand­ing of Mech­a­nisms Involved in Neu­rocog­ni­tive Alter­ations fol­low­ing breast can­cer). This project aims to deep­en our under­stand­ing of the neu­rocog­ni­tive changes expe­ri­enced...

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Highlights from the Recent Psychology Congress in Helsinki

We are pleased to share that our lab par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Psy­chol­o­gy Con­gress (Psykolo­gia Kon­gres­si 2024), held from August 14 to 16, 2024, mark­ing the even­t’s return after a long hia­tus. The con­gress pro­vid­ed a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with new col­leagues, reunite with famil­iar faces, and explore the lat­est...

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Department Retreat 2024

The Depart­ment of Psy­chol­o­gy and Logo­pe­dics trav­eled to sun­ny Tvär­minne for a one-day retreat. As every year, there were numer­ous pro­duc­tive ses­sions dis­cussing improve­ments for var­i­ous depart­men­tal process­es, along­side sci­en­tif­ic talks and poster pre­sen­ta­tions. Quite unex­pect­ed­ly, it snowed, so the social evening includ­ed a sauna and board games.

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More on obesity and working memory

Our newest preprint pub­li­ca­tion on the rela­tion­ship between obe­si­ty and work­ing mem­o­ry has under­gone rig­or­ous review by eLife, shed­ding new light on the inter­play between BMI and cog­ni­tive function. The study, led by researcher Nadine Her­zog, reveals com­pelling insights into how genet­ic vari­ants influ­enc­ing stri­atal dopamine sig­nal­ing impact the neg­a­tive...

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Bienvenue Manon !!!

We are thrilled to announce that Manon Chédev­ille has joined the O’Brain Lab as a doc­tor­al researcher. Manon comes to us from France, where she earned her Master’s degree in Psy­chol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bor­deaux in 2021. She fur­ther com­plet­ed a Mas­ter’s in neu­ro­sciences at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Caen. Manon’s...

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The O’Brain Lab @ Nordic Obesity Meeting

The 2024 edi­tion of the Nordic Obe­si­ty Meet­ing took place in Helsin­ki the 1–3 Feb­ru­ary, and the O’Brain Lab was there to present our research! Our post­doc Artemii Nikitin and doc­tor­al researchers Hen­drik Hart­mann and Arsene Kanyamib­wa pre­sent­ed their research projects. In the ‘Mas­ter­ing Appetite’ ses­sion, our own asso­ciate pro­fes­sor...

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New paper on working memory in obesity

Does obe­si­ty relate to impair­ments in work­ing mem­o­ry gat­ing? That is what the study by Nadine Her­zog et al. focused on, and the results sug­gest it’s not about BMI per se – a BMI-genet­ic inter­ac­tion might play a role. Read more about the intrigu­ing insights here.

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