Research, science & health

Professor Adrian Isaacs, neuroscientist at the London University College (UCL), was the Institut du Cerveau - ICM's guest on April 18, 2016. On this occasion, he discusses his research on C9orf72 gene, which unusual mutation is at the origin of two...

A specialist in genetics of epilepsy, Stephanie Baulac, co-responsible of the team "genetics and physiopathology of family epilepsies" at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, is the winner of an ERC Consolidator Grant.

In Nature Review Neurology, Professor Harald Hampel and Doctor Simone Lista highlight the need to refine the diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in order to set preventive measures and stem the progression toward dementia in...

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...

A major international conceptual diagnostic criteria and conceptual breakthrough program has been successfully launched and published, led by the UPMC and Institut du Cerveau - ICM researchers Professor Bruno Dubois and Professor Harald Hampel (AXA –...

A team coordinated by professor Emmanuel Flamand-Roze of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, AP-HP, and researcher at the Brain and Spine Institute, has tested at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM Clinical Investigation Center, the efficiency of zonisamide...

In the context of World Parkinson's disease day on April 11th, the Institut du Cerveau - ICM focuses on the latest discoveries.

Hereditary spastic paraplegias are a heterogeneous group of pathologies and share clinical similarities with other neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

In a rare and early form of Alzheimer's disease, Institut du Cerveau - ICM researchers have shown that, surprisingly, connectivity between neurons increases during the initial phase of the disease. This transitional increase would correspond to a...

For the first time in humans, an imaging study shows an early and protective role of the immune cells of the brain, called " microglial " cells, in Alzheimer's disease. Teams from the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center, from the CEA, from the Saint-Antoine...

For the first time, an animal model, deficient for DEPDC5 gene, responsible for familial focal epilepsy with cortical malformations, has been generated by Stéphanie Baulac and Eric Leguern's team.

For the first time, Claire Wyart's team has shown in the zebra fish, the existence of a sensory system within the spinal cord, capable of detecting and modulating movement. Identification of other parameters that can activate this system, and thus...