Contact address

Dept. of Medicine / Physiology
Chemin du Musée 5
CH-1700 Fribourg (Switzerland)
Phone: +41 26 300 8724
e-mail: pierre.lavenex[@]unifr.ch

Research Interests

• Comparative studies of brain structure and function
• Hippocampus and Amygdala
• Neurobiological basis of memory
• Brain maturation
• Memory development
• Infantile amnesia
• Neurodevelopmental disorders

Approaches and Techniques

• Gene expression: cDNA microarrays
• Neuroanatomy: light, confocal and electron microscopy
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging and PET
• Behavioral neuroscience: memory and cognitive tests

Teaching

• Sport students
• Psychology students
• Medical students

Links

• Swiss Society for Neuroscience
• Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry
• Society for Neuroscience
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
• National Institutes of Health
• UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute