Grinevich Lab
Live, Love, Oxytocin!
Welcome to the website of the Grinevich Lab. Here you will find information about our scientific work and the team of the lab.
Learn more about our research and the operational principle of Oxytocin!
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Selected ERC synergy grant
We are proud to be one of the selected highlights in the 2022 ERC synergy grants
A team of researchers aims to understand the neural basis of people's ability to process space geometry along the sense of space ownership, utilities and social hierarchies, leading to the perception of territoriality. The team coordinated by Prof. Dr. Valery Grinevich (Central Institute of Mental Health) is composed by his group and the labs led by Angela Sirigu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS/France), Dori Derdikman (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology/Israel), and David Omer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Israel). Their common research project has now received major grants from the European Research Council (ERC), namely synergy ERC grant (10 Mio Euros for 6 years), to address this challenging multidisciplinary research problem.
We are proud to work together with great teams all over the world
Our key collaborators
- Profs. Philipp Koch and Rainer Spanagel (CIMH/ZI, Mannheim)
- Dr. Alexander Charlet (CNRS, Strasbourg)
- Prof. Ron Stoop (University of Lausanne)
- Profs. Shlomo Wagner and Dori Derdikmann (Haifa University)
- Profs. Nahum Ulyanovsky and Tali Kimchi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
- Prof. Arthur Lefevre and Dr. Angela Sirigu (CNRS, Lyon)
- Prof. Robert Froemke (New York University)
- Prof. Inga Neumann (Regensburg University)
Fundamentals
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Current Preprints
- Oxytocin facilitates social behavior of female rats via selective modulation of interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex
Schimmer, S., Lefevre, A., Lebedeva, J., Rozov, A., Kania, A., Raftogianni, A., Afordakos, K., Tiwari, R., Netser, S., Patwell, R., Hefter, D., Boender, A., Podpecan, Y., Schubert, T., Sanetra, A., Trenk, A., Gugula, A., Hurlemann, R., Althammer, F., Blasiak, A., Melzer, S., Monyer, H., Wagner, S., Eliava, M., Grinevich, V. - Stable clique membership in mouse societies requires oxytocin-enabled social sensory states
Nelias, C., Ghanayem, S., Wolf, D., Moor, M., Scheller, M.F., Grinevich, V., Reinwald, J. R., Kelsch, W. - Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase 10A by MP-10 Rescues Behavioral Deficits and Normalizes Microglial Morphology and Synaptic Pruning in a Mouse Model of FOXP1
Fröhlich, H., Wang, J., Althammer, F., Schubert, T., Kluck, N., Grinevich, V., Schmitteckert, S., Schaaf, C.P., Gudrun, A.
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