http://www.nncn.uni-freiburg.de <p>Thinking, sensing, learning, remembering - all mental functions reside within the brain. At the same time, this organ is probably the most complex structure that evolution has ever produced. </p> <p> Understanding the brain is the prerequisite for creating new methods for prevention and treatment of diseases of the nervous system. It may also help developing new strategies for learning and teaching. It may even be used for the design of new, 'intelligent' technical devices, such as neuroprostheses or more powerful computer systems. <a href="starttext-en"> Read More... </a> </p> <h2>Research News</h2> daily 1 2008-04-22T10:44:23Z http://www.nncn.uni-freiburg.de/Aktuelles-en/Forschungsergebnisse-en/kurzschluss Breaks in the brain may also be triggered by a kind of short circuit as Freiburg researchers could now show (May 2012). No publisher schwarzwaelder krankheitenEn epilepsieEn 2012-05-10T13:42:54Z Page http://www.nncn.uni-freiburg.de/Aktuelles-en/Forschungsergebnisse-en/autismgene Malfunctions of a single protein can cause dysfunction of synapses leading to autistic forms of behavior. A current study by scientists from Germany, France and Belgium comes to this conclusion after examining genetically modified mice (May 2012). No publisher schwarzwaelder krankheitenEn 2012-05-07T13:39:53Z Page http://www.nncn.uni-freiburg.de/Aktuelles-en/Forschungsergebnisse-en/sinne People with good hearing also have a keen sense of touch; people with impaired hearing generally have an impaired sense of touch. Scientists from Berlin, Hannover and Valencia now showed that both senses – hearing and touch – have a common genetic basis (May 2012). No publisher schwarzwaelder krankheitenEn 2012-05-07T10:16:58Z Page