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In Brief
Happiness Hormone Helps Memory
The happiness hormone dopamine strengthens long-term memory. This is the result of work by a team headed by Prof. Dr Emrah Düzel from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Test persons between 65 and 75 years of age were given a dopamine precursor substance. They proved to perform better...more
In Brief
Crowd Funding for Research
With "Sciencestarter", the Science in Dialogue initiative now has established the first German language crowd funding platform for the scientific world. Researchers can use the platform to find sponsors for project ideas in the fields of science and science communication. To this end, within 30 days, they first need to find sufficient...more
International
Helmholtz Science Talk in Moscow
On 4 December 2012 in Moscow, the Helmholtz Science Talk "Russian Megascience Projects: Prospects and Potentials for the German-Russian Research Cooperation" took place, organised by the Helmholtz Association and the National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" under the roof of the Moscow-based German Center for Research and...more
International
Anniversary in Brussels: A Milestone Celebration
Builder of bridges, advisor, translator: for ten years now, in all matters relating to Europe, the Brussels Office has fulfilled all these roles for the Helmholtz Association. On 4 December, the office celebrated its anniversary with a reception at the Federal State of Saxony liasion office. Foundation office manager Wilfried Kraus and the current...more
Staff News
Jan-Martin Wiarda new Head of "Communications and Media Relations"
As of 1 January 2013, Jan-Martin Wiarda will be the new head of the "Communication and Media" department at the Helmholtz head office. Previously, Wiarda was deputy head of the "Chances" department at the ZEIT newspaper. Parallel to studying politics, economics and sociology in Munich, he completed a vocational training course...more
