Cecilie Bay-Richter, associate professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University has received DKK 200,000 from the Riisfort Foundation for research into mental health consequences of COVID-19 infection.

Associate Professor Betina Elfving has received a grant from Simon Fougner Hartmanns Familiefond enabling procurement of the Nanostring nCounter machinery for biomarker studies within psychiatric disorders.

Sâmia Joca will be investigating the effect of canabidiol on depression

In a recent paper Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira and colleagues analyzed DNA methylation patterns of two genomic loci located in exon III of the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) gene (OXTR1 and OXTR2) in the umbilical cord blood (UCB) of newborns with a history of crack cocaine exposure in utero. Regression analyses showed that maternal addiction severity for crack cocaine use predicted OXTR1 DNA methylation in newborns.

PhD student Gabriela Silote from TNU, Aarhus University and the University of São Paolo will defend her double degree thesis "Behavioural and molecular effects induced by Cannabidiol in animal models of depression".

On Thursday 6 May from 13:00 – 17:40, NeuroCampus Aarhus is hosting Neuroscience Day 2021 – “Flowing Neuroscience” in the web-conferencing space Gather.town.