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Ein Tag im Zeichen der Bochumer Neurowissenschaften mit Vorträgen, Informationen und Mitmachaktionen. Alle Besucher*innen sind eingeladen zu schauen, zu hören, zu fühlen, nachzufragen und mitzumachen. Auch im Jahr 2025 arbeitet das Organisations-Team des BRAIN DAY's wieder daran, für seine Gäste ein spannendes Angebot zusammenzustellen.
For animals, sleeping on their left side is not about comfort. It is a survival strategy.
Cats prefer to sleep on their left side. This is the conclusion drawn by an international research team that analyzed several hundred YouTube videos of sleeping cats. The researchers see this bias as an evolutionary advantage because it favors hunting and escape behavior after waking up. The team from the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), Ruhr University Bochum, Medical School Hamburg and other partners in Germany, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey report on the study in the journal Current Biology.
Physicians from Bochum have used a cancer treatment method to treat severe autoimmune diseases.
A team of physicians from Bochum are the first to successfully use CAR T-cell therapy to treat two patients with a autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system. This treatment modifies endogenous immune cells such that they can specifically target and eliminate B lymphocytes, which are here the origin of autoimmunity. This is the world’s first clinical report in the use of CAR T-cell therapy to treat a serious autoimmune neuropathy.
Mit dem Format BrainBusiness sind wir angetreten, um ein Austauschformat im Bereich der Neurowissenschaften zu etablieren. Unterschiedliche Disziplinen und vor allem unterschiedliche Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft, Versorgung und Wirtschaft sollen zusammenkommen und voneinander lernen!
Nach erfolgreicher Etablierung setzen wir die Reihe fort und legen in diesem Jahr den Fokus auf die visuelle Wahrnehmung und zugehörige Erkrankungen sowie auf Herausforderungen und Lösungen zur Mentalen Gesundheit.
Researchers are investigating the mechanisms and identifying new areas of the brain that can benefit patients when stimulated.
Persons with Parkinson’s disease lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker. In a current study, researchers from the universities Bochum and Marburg investigated whether and how stimulation of a certain region of the brain can have a positive impact on ambulatory ability.
Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness.
The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders is a frequently reported observation in medical practice. The reason why handedness is associated with these disorders is probably because both are affected by processes in early brain development.
Upon energy restriction, an unusual release of the neurotransmitter glutamate can be observed. The overabundance of glutamate ultimately causes damages to nerve cells.
Our brain requires a constant supply of energy. A disrupted energy supply, as it is for instance caused by a stroke, can have serious complications. A team from the research group Cellular Neurobiology at Ruhr University Bochum investigated how an energy deficiency in the brain affects the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate.
Researchers conducted an experiment in which test subjects felt like a rubber hand was part of their own body. As a result, their own hand became less sensitive to pain.
If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help patients who suffer from chronic pain: Researchers at the LWL University Hospital in Bochum, Germany, have shown that pain caused by heat is experienced as less severe thanks to the rubber hand illusion.
The locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area compete for control over the formation of memory content. This has been shown by a team of neuroscientists using light-controlled nerve cells.
Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area permanently alter brain activity in the hippocampus region, which is crucial for the formation of memory.
A learning experiment with participants of different ages produced surprising results.
The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences – experts use the term associative learning – is a crucial skill for adapting to the environment. It has a huge impact on our mental health. A study by the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center (FBZ) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, shows that children of primary school age demonstrate the highest learning performance in this area.
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Last update: 2025/07/04 | 9 pm