Research, science & health

Tics are the prime manifestations of Tourette's syndrome. How do they appear ? Why do they persist ? Yulia Worbe, from Mary Vidailhet's team, and her colleagues, have shown that patients with Tourette's syndrome develop more normal behaviours than...

The Centre for Neuroinformatics is a transverse structure in the Institute, gathering researchers, engineers, and IT people, united to promote excellence in data management, data analysis, and scientific computing across the whole Paris Brain...

Brain plasticity is the dynamic process happening in our brain as we learn through experience, and it varies greatly with age. What are the mechanism behind this? A study conducted by Alberto Bacci’s team at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM discovered...

The World Stroke Day for cerebral vascular accidents (CVA) took place on October 29, 2015. The research led at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM seeks to better understand these neurological accidents and to improve the recovery and rehabilitation of...

Diagnosing Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) is difficult and requires robust and reliable tools. A study conducted by Denis Engemann (Inria, French national research institute for the digital sciences – CEA NeuroSpin) and Federico Raimondo...

A recent study conducted by a research team around Hilke Plassmann, the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Decision Neuroscience & Paris Brain Institute (Paris Brain Institute – Inserm/CNRS/Sorbonne Université), a principal investigator in the Social...

Would you rather have a piece of chocolate cake or steamed veggies? Making healthy food choices isn’t always easy! A study conducted by a team of researchers around Liane Schmidt (Inserm) and Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD) at the Brain and Spine Institute...

INSIGHT study highlights compensation mechanisms in patients with Alzheimer’s disease lesions used to maintain intellectual and memory capabilities.

Bassem Hassan’s team at Institut du Cerveau - ICM discovered a specific type of neural stem cell and deciphered a highly precise temporal control mechanism for their function during brain development in Drosophila (fruit flies). The results were...

Alzheimer’s disease represents one of the largest remaining unsolved threats to our health. This disease in common with other neurological disorders has been elusive because it is hard to diagnose. Our current ability to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease...

How can we know if a patient is conscious if he or she is unable to communicate? Disorders of consciousness can be differentiated in two types: the “vegetative” state, with no awareness from the patient and the “minimally conscious” state, with a...

Prof. Cori Bargmann from Rockefeller University was at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM on June 6th 2017 to give a conference on « Neuromodulatory regulation through timescales in C. Elegans nematodes ».