The Bernstein SmartSteps series provides a unique platform for selected Early Career Scientists of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience to present their research projects to the scientific community.

Scientists discover the brain’s internal goal map enabling animals to navigate precisely to a chosen destination

On October 14, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and Boehringer Ingelheim announced the winners of the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2022. It will be awarded to Tatjana Tchumatchenko (DE) and Tom Baden (UK) during the FENS Forum 2022.

Jeanine Laturner receives this year's Bernstein CorTec Award for her master thesis "Ocular dominance plasticity in a thalamo-cortical recurrent network model". The award was presented by Prof. Kerstin Krieglstein, Rector of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, during the opening of the academic year.

LMU neurobiologists have shown that photosynthetic micro-organisms can be used as a source of oxygen for nerve cells.

International research collaboration explores the properties of different neuron types in the brain motor cortex of mice, monkeys and humans using novel experimental and data analysis techniques

EBRAINS is the new digital research infrastructure set up by the EU-funded Human Brain Project.

International team of researchers develops algorithm that accelerates super-resolution microscopy

A new study on bats reveals an unexpected representation of three-dimensional space in the brain

The traces light leaves on the retina close gaps in visual perception and provide continuity in knowing what is where as we move.