Eberhard Fuchs (neurobiologist)

Eberhard Fuchs (* 1947 in Munich ) is a German neurobiologist.

Fuchs studied biology and chemistry in Munich and became a rer in 1977 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Hansjochem Autrum . nat. is doing her doctorate with a dissertation on stress among the Tupaia . He then spent seven years at the University of Bayreuth and then moved to the German Primate Center in Göttingen, first in the reproductive biology department and, from 1990, in the neurobiology department. In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , where he became Professor of Animal Physiology in 1996 and Professor of Animal Physiology in 2000 and, from 2003, of Neurobiology at the Medical University of Göttingen .

Among other things, he examined the effects of stress and depression on the central nervous system. During studies on shrews (Tupaias), he found that even in adults, for example in the dentate gyrus in the hippocampus (important for memory), new nerve cells are constantly forming. In the case of psychosocial stress, the new formation rate (plasticity) decreases there, according to research by Fuchs, and one of the mechanisms of action of common antidepressants, according to Fuchs, is that they partially restore the limited plasticity.

In 2002 he received the first science award : Society needs science .

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of birth according to the Kürschner Scholar Calendar 2009
2. ^ Idw on the Prize of the Stifterverband 2002