Periodic Reporting for period 1 - euSNN (European School of Network Neuroscience)
Reporting period: 2019-10-01 to 2021-09-30
- development of approaches for monitoring the structural and functional connectivity has started
- investigation of projections that link primary sensory areas and PFC by recording neuronal activity have started
Training activities:
- theoretical work on the background of cortical network dynamics and optogenetics
- theory of different modeling approaches
- hippocampal functions and neuronal properties of the various neuron types in the dentate gyrus and hippocampus
- recording and analysing basic neuronal properties such as input resistance, resting membrane potentials and discharge patterns
- basic electrophysiology by performing whole-cell recordings from dentate gyrus granule cells in acute slice preparations of mouse hippocampus
- training in rat surgery, chronic implantation of recording probes, electrophysiological recordings in the awake animal and perfusion
- state-of-the-art research on electrophysiological markers of Parkinson’s Disease
- laminar fMRI recording and data analysis
- training in programming, handling behavioral control setups and software, signal acquisition and analysis
Dissemination activities:
- press release on project start
- launched a website which presents the network, its individual projects and lists publications emerging from the action
- radio interview on the ‘Cognitive functions of the brain’ at Radio ‘Feierwerk’ Munich for children
- published an article for lay people about prefrontal impact on action control in uni’wissen, the journal of the University of Freiburg