Grinevich Lab
Live, Love, Oxytocin!


Paraventricular (red) and Supraoptic (blue) nucleus of the hypothalamus
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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.
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
Interested in learning about the neuroanatomy of hypothalamic neuroendocrine and peptidergic systems? Read our new Master Class book on the Neuroanatomy of Neuroendocrine Systems!
Current Preprints
- Compartmental Neuropeptide Release Measured Using a New Oxytocin Sensor
Tongrui Qian, Huan Wang, Peng Wang, Lan Geng, Long Mei, Takuya Osakada, YanTang, Alan Kania, Valery Grinevich, Ron Stoop, Dayu Lin, Minmin Luo, Yulong Li - Altered PVN-to-CA2 hippocampal oxytocin pathway and reduced number of oxytocin-receptor expressing astrocytes in heart failure rats
Ferdinand Althammer, Ranjan K. Roy, Arthur Lefevre, Rami Najjar, Kai Schoenig, Dusan Bartsch, Marina Eliava, Rafaela Feresin, Elizabeth Hammock, Anne Z. Murphy, Alexandre Charlet, Valery Grinevich, Javier E. Stern - A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch
Dávid Keller, Tamás Láng, Melinda Cservenák, Gina Puska, János Barna, Veronika Csillag, Imre Farkas, Dóra Zelena, Fanni Dóra, Lara Barteczko, Ted B. Usdin, Miklós Palkovits, Mazahir T. Hasan, Valery Grinevich, Arpád Dobolyi - A novel analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray
Mai Iwasaki, Arthur Lefevre, Ferdinand Althammer, Olga Łąpieś, Louis Hilfiger, Damien Kerspern, Meggane Melchior, Stephanie Küppers, Quirin Krablicher, Ryan Patwell, Sabine C Herpertz, Beate Ditzen, Kai Schönig, Dusan Bartsch, Javier E.Stern, Pascal Darbon, Valery Grinevich, Alexandre Charlet
Oxytocin and somatosensory processing
Created by Stephanie Schimmer for the Clinical Neuroanatomy Seminars youtube channel. Original contents published in Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition)
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