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09 November 2022Joery den Hoed defends thesis on 14 November
On Monday, 14 November 12:30 hrs, Joery den Hoed will defend his thesis 'Disentangling the molecular landscape of genetic variation of neurodevelopmental and speech disorders'. A limited number of...
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08 June 2022Clyde Francks appointed professor of Brain Imaging Genomics
Clyde Francks, research group leader of the Imaging Genomics group at the Max Planck Institute, has been appointed Professor of Brain Imaging Genomics at Radboud university medical center. He studies...
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28 April 2021Otto Hahn Medal awarded to Ella Lattenkamp
Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Ella Lattenkamp will receive this prestigious award...
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05 November 2020Dr. Else Eising awarded NWO VENI Grant
The MPI is proud and happy to announce that Dr. Else Eising has been awarded a Veni grant for her study on the genetics of stuttering. Veni is part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Talent Programme...
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31 October 2019People with autism have a more symmetrical brain
Do people with autism have differently organised brains? A large-scale MRI study, published in Nature Communications, reports fewer differences between the right and left hemispheres in people with...
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21 October 2019Synaesthesia gives new insights into how we experience the world around us
Sometimes described as a blending of the senses, synaesthesia is an unusual trait where exposure to a triggering stimulus (e.g. music or letters of the alphabet) causes an immediate additional...
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19 August 2019Variation in the shape of speech organs influences language evolution
Why do speech sounds vary across languages? Does the shape of our speech organs play a role? In a computer modelling study reported in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the Max Planck Institute...
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13 April 2019Otto Hahn Medal for Sara Busquets Estruch
Each year, the Max Planck Society awards up to 30 young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements with the Otto Hahn Medal. Sara Busquets Estruch of the MPI for...
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13 December 2018Neandertal genes shed light on unique aspects of the modern human brain
A characteristic feature of modern humans is the unusually round skull and brain, in contrast to the elongated shape seen in other human species. By studying Neandertal DNA fragments found in the...
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11 December 2018MPI's Sonja Vernes on Arte TV
The latest edition of the German/French TV programme 'Arte' features Sonja Vernes, leader of the MPI Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication research group.
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