Media coverage

CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) has launched a new series of articles titled Ask an Expert, where we take everyday questions in the public conversation and seek answers from EU researchers. The articles are published online and serve to draw readers into CORDIS, where they can find out more about your research and other EU-funded work. 

Read Johanne’s article: “Can a memory be erased?” (available in 6 langages)

• Blick: “Gen-Therapie kehrt Gedächtnisverlust bei Mäusen um“
• Medinside: “Au-delà de la prévention: l’EPFL explore la possibilité de restaurer la mémoire“

• Le Temps : “L’EPFL a mis au point un commutateur génétique capable d’activer ou effacer des souvenirs chez les souris“
• Science et Avenir : “Mémoire : un interrupteur épigénétique qui active ou désactive un souvenir“

August 2, 2024 – How neurons make a memory

• May 20, 2021: Overcoming long-term trauma can be facilitated through activity in nucleus reuniens – MedicalXpress
• May 20, 2021: So geht das Gehirn mit Traumata um – Telebasel
• May 21, 2021: EPFL Forscher entdecken Hirnregion zur Traumaverarbeitung – Blick 
• May 21, 2021: Wie das Gehirn traumatischen Erinnerungen den Schrecken nimmt – Südostschweiz

• April 9, 2021: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of remote fear attenuation – CORDIS. 

• February, 2022 – Genetica dei ricordi – le Scienze, Mind, Mente & Cervello. n. 206
• April 9th, 2021 – Retraining memories may help us overcome trauma – Cordis
• May 5, 2019 – Warum das Spiel mit den Ängsten so gut funktioniert – Kurier
• September 4, 2018 – Angstforschung: Man muss sich dem Erlebnis aussetzen – St.Galler Tagblatt
• June 20, 2018 – Descubren las neuronas que reescriben los recuerdos traumáticos – La Razon
• June 17, 2018 – WANT TO BE MORE BRAVE? THE BRAIN CAN EDIT MEMORIES TO ERASE FEAR, STUDY SAYS – Newsweek
• June 15, 2018 – Facing your fears – Science Vol 360, Issue 6394
• June 15, 2018 – Reactivation of recall-induced neurons contributes to remote fear memory attenuation – Science Vol 360, Issue 6394
• June 15, 2018 – Così il cervello riscrive i brutti ricordi – La Repubblica
• June 14, 2018 – Warum es heilsam ist, sich seiner Angst zu stellen – Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• June 14, 2018 – Pour surmonter un traumatisme, en réécrire le souvenir– Le Temps

• May 1, 2020 – How Manipulating Rodent Memories Can Elucidate Neurological Function

• May 7, 2018 – PM20D1 is a quantitative trait locus associated with Alzheimer’s disease – Nature Medicinevolume 24, p.598–603
• May 14, 2018 – Scientists discover a variation of the genome predisposing to Alzheimer’s disease – Science Daily

• December 10, 2018 – Things I Now Know: Johannes Gräff – MQ

• March 29, 2021 – Eingebrannte Erinnerungen – Gehirn & Geist
• June 17, 2021 – La mémoire dans les gènes – Cerveau & Psycho

February 12, 2026 – Rajeunir les neurones de la mémoire, le pari expérimental de lʹEPFL

October 31, 2025 – L’ EPFL démontre quʹon peut moduler la mémoire chez la souris

November 14, 2024 – Les mécanismes des souvenirs

July 27, 2024 – Talk by Johannes on the Austrian radio station ORF (German)

• May 24, 2021: Comment le cerveau transforme les expériences traumatisantes – RTS

• June 15, 2018 – Reactivation of recall-induced neurons contributes to remote fear memory attenuation
• August 2, 2018 – Angst kann verlernt werden – SRF
• June 15, 2018 – Des neurones qui réécrivent les souvenirs traumatiques – RTS