Valery Grinevich joins the ZI Mannheim as Department Head of “Neuropeptide research in psychiatry”
Prof. Dr. Valery Grinevich has joined the Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim as Department Head for of the new department “Neuropeptide research in psychiatry”. Valery was one of the first five Schaller Group leaders recruited in 2012 and headed his laboratory focusing on neuropeptide research.
In Mannheim his department will focus on the dissection of the mechanisms of neuropeptide action in the brain, from molecular – via anatomical – to the whole organism level. They are employing viral, opto- and chemogenetical, electrophysiological and behavioral approaches to study the effects of various neuropeptides (primarily oxytocin, OT) within the distinct brain regions controlling stress and fear responses, maternal and social behavior.
Excitingly, his group’s most recent work was just published in Neuron:
More information about his group is available in German on the ZI-Website:
