A joint work between István Katona' and György Keserű' (INS) teams led to the development of a novel method that enables the visualization of drug binding on the surface of neurons at nanoscale precision and helps to understand the therapeutic effects of cariprazine, a medicine developed in Hungary.

A couple of months length study trip is often as exciting as some great adventure. New group, other circumstances, hard work for results, and opportunity to know a foreign place better than a tourist. Spending years somewhere is a bigger matter.

Epidemic here, problems there, especially young ones, even more so if they are researchers, want to enjoy themselves. By keeping the rules, they are able to figure out how to make their current life more efficient and enjoyable too!

The paper in the Nature Communication journal published by the team of Balázs Hangya and their colleagues from the Semmelweis University describes a new procedure which can help the success of neuroscience investigations .

The significance of the discovery of István Katona and his team was appraised as "novel concept in developmental biology" by one of the reviewers of the paper. The work was published in the Nature Communication.

By using correlation techniques, Balázs Hangya and his team uncovered two functional classes of cholinergic neurons which show differential influence on cortical neuronal activity and mouse decisions. The work has been published in the Nature Neuroscience.

Every year, the Hungarian Innovation Prix competition recognizes world-class achievements that bring outstanding benefits. One of the winners of the 2019 tenders is Femtonics Kft, founded by Balázs Rózsa and Gergely Katona.

The work of Judit Makara's group investigating the rules of synaptic plasticity can make a significant contribution to recognizing the importance of each process in the functioning of the nervous system. Their new papers are published by Nature Communications and J Neuroscience.

Ádám Dénes and his collaborators identified a novel communication site between microglia and neurons. These contacts - termed somatic purinergic junctions - may have remarkable therapeutic potential.

Hard work always pays off! Gábor Nyiri and his team have deserved well the big success, when their paper was published in Science this May. Actually, according to the reviewers and Editors, their second discovery also has the merit for the publication in Science!