Research, science & health

A collaborative study between Philippe Fossati’s team at Paris Brain Institute, a team from KU Leuven and a team from the University of Maastricht, shows for the first time that the brain bases of emotions vary with time.

Prof. Eva Maria Kramer Albers from Johannes Gutenberg University, visited the Brain and Spine Institute - Institut du Cerveau - ICM on April 24, 2017 to give a talk on exosomes, biomolecular sacs that may play a part in maintaining neural axon...

24Chronic social defeat stress is a cause in many cases of depression. In humans, chronic social stress is built over time based on our past social interaction, with numerous consequences on both a psychological and neurological level.

A recent study directed by Professor Harald Hampel, researcher at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, highlights the predictive potential for Alzheimer’s disease of a serological biomarker.

The neuromuscular junction is the area that enables transfer of information from the nervous system to muscles. It is composed of a motor neuron that transfers information to a muscle thanks to a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. The contact...

It’s all about motivation: sports feats, high-risk professions, even going to the museum. How can we define motivation and which molecules are involved ? Mathias Pessiglione and Sébastien Bouret, co-managers of the « Motivation, Brain and Behavior »...

A recent study carried out by Frédéric Darios in the team led by Alexis Brice at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM highlights the importance of spatacsin, a protein affected in pathologies such as hereditary spastic paraplegia.

The neuromuscular junction is a zone that enables transfer of information from the nervous system to muscles, and is affected in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The team led by Edor Kabashi at the Institut du Cerveau – ICM focused on the role of...

Serotonin is a neuromodulator, meaning a molecule produced by neurons that modulates communication between other neurons in our brain. Serotonin has many functions that, for some, remain unclear. It is involved in regulation of behaviors, mood...

0808Xavier Briffault is a social science researcher specialized in healthcare at the CNRS-CERMES3 and is involved in the Crazy App and Altotoc projects with the team led by Luc Mallet at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM. He recently wrote a book...

What if an antibiotic that has been used for more than half a century could cure Parkinson's disease? This is the hope raised by a study of two researchers from the Brain & Spine Institute, Rita Raisman-Vozari, Emeritus Director of Research at the...

Why does multiple sclerosis progress more rapidly in some patients than in others? Why do some patients with multiple sclerosis succeed in repairing demyelination damage over the course of the disease and others not? A joint study led by Institut du...