Department of Physiology

Welcome

Physiology is the science of the processes governing life. It describes the physical, biochemical and information processing functions of living systems at the level of the entire organism, the organs and the cells. The Department of Physiology provides under-graduate and post-graduate education for medical- and life-science students. It carries out research mainly in the field of heart- and neurophysiology.

News and events

KI mit Bewusstsein – aber ohne Schmerzen?

Medienmitteilung

Interview by the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) Wissenschaftsmagazin

Podcast

Interview on artificial intelligence (AI)

Interview with Walter Senn on artificial intelligence (AI) for the play "Majorie Prime" - Effingertheater Bern, 24. August - 20. September 2024

Best Poster Award

Sina Livia Schmid

EBRAINS 2.0 - New funded Project!

Start: 01.01.2024 / Runtime: 3 years. As partners of the new EBRAINS 2.0 European consortium, the NeuroTMA and CompNeuro groups were granted €1.2 million.

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pascal Pfister Lunch Talk

Can animals recognize themselves in the mirror?

Dr. Jun Huang

Teeraum 021

20 November12:30 Uhr

Vorherige Weitere

New Papers

J. Mendes Duarte, R. Nguyen, M. Kyprou, K. Li, A. Milentijevic, C. Cerquetella, T. Forro & S. Ciocchi

Hippocampal contextualization of social rewards in mice

04. November 2024, Nature Communications

Stephan De Waard, H. Hinnen and J.P. Kucera

Stochastic and alternating pacing paradigms to assess the stability of cardiac conduction

28. October 2024, J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol.

F. Benitez, C. Pennartz, W. Senn

The conductor model of consciousness, our neuromorphic twins, and the human-AI deal

02. October 2024, AI and Ethics

R. Janicek, E.M. Camors, D.M. Potenza, M. Fernandez-Tenorio, Y. Zhao, H.C. Dooge, R. Loaiza, F.J. Alvarado, M. Egger, H.H. Valdivia, E. Niggli

Dual ablation of the RyR2-Ser2808 and RyR2-Ser2814 sites increases propensity for pro-arrhythmic spontaneous Ca²⁺ releases

25. September 2024, J. Physiol.

Commentary

K. Li, K. Koukoutselos, M. Sakaguchi, S. Ciocchi

Distinct ventral hippocampal inhibitory microcircuits regulating anxiety and fear behaviors

19. September 2024, Nature Communications

A. Granier, M.A. Petrovici, W. Senn, K.A. Wilmes

Confidence and second-order errors in cortical circuits

13. September 2024, PNAS Nexus

I. Bodi, L. Mettke*, K. Michaelides*, T. Hornyik*, S. Meier, S. Nimani, S. Perez-Feliz, I. El-Battrawy, H. Bugger, M. Zehender, M. Brunner, J. Heijman, K.E. Odening

Beneficial normalization of cardiac repolarization by carnitine in transgenic SQT1 rabbit models

14. August 2024, Cardiovasc. Res.

S. Bains, L. Giammarino*, S. Nimani, N. Alerni, D.J. Tester, CS John Kim, N. Christoforou, J. Louradour, A. Horvath, O. Beslac, M. Barbieri, L. Matas, T.S. Hof, R. Lopez, S. Perez-Feliz, J. Jurgensen, M.A. Barry, M. Bego, L. Keyes, J. Owens, J. Pinkstaff, G. Koren, M. Zehender, M. Brunner, D. Casoni, F. Praz, A. Häberlin, G. Brooks, M.J. Ackerman, K.E. Odening

KCNQ1 suppression-replacement gene therapy in transgenic rabbits with type 1 long QT syndrome

14. August 2024, Eur Heart J

F. Franciosa, M. Acuña, N.E. Nevian, T. Nevian

A cellular mechanism contributing to pain-induced analgesia

30. July 2024, Pain

C. Mages, H. Gampp, A-K Rahm, J. Hackbarth, J. Pfeiffer, F. Petersenn, X. Kramp, F. Kermani, J. Zhang, D.A.Pijnappels, A.A.F. de Vries, K. Seidensaal, B. Rhein, J. Debus, N.D. Ullrich, N. Frey, D. Thomas, P. Lugenbiel

Cardiac stereotactic body radiotherapy to treat malignant ventricular arrhythmias directly affects the cardiomyocyte electrophysiology

01. July 2024, Heart Rhythm

J. Jordan, J. Sacramento, W.A.M. Wybo, M.A. Petrovici, W. Senn

Conductance-based dendrites perform Bayes-optimal cue integration

12. June 2024, PLoS Comput Biol

K. Max, L. Kriener, G. Pineda Garcia, T. Nowotny, I. Jaras, W. Senn and M.A. Petrovici