Research, science & health

Can the left hemisphere compensate for a lesion in the right hemisphere?

The innovative results of a study on the effects of a synthetic oil on brain metabolism in Huntington disease, performed by researchers in the Institut du Cerveau - ICM were just published in the journal Neurology.

Whatever the alphabet we use or the culture in which we are raised, it’s always the same small region of the visual cortex in the left hemisphere that allows us to identify the letters we see. Why, then, in the vast regions of the visual cortex that...

Today, in France, about 5000 new carriers of malignant primary brain tumours are diagnosed each year. The symptoms depend on the localization of the tumour, its size and the rate at which it develops. Gliomas represent around 50-60% of all primary...

In a study published in the September 2014 issue of the scientific journal Cortex (number 58), Pr. Gianfranco Dalla Barba of the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM – and his collaborators demonstrated that “confabulators mistake...

Comparison of the cerebral and cognitive resources solicited during automatic or voluntary breathing

Two researchers of the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière – Institut du Cerveau - ICM – Brain and Spine Institute, Fabrizio DE VICO FALLANI and Mario CHAVEZ, in collaboration with the University of Grenoble (Sophie ACHARD) and the Stanford...

The Biotechnology & Biotherapy team, created by Dr. Jacques Mallet and presently directed by Dr. Philippe Ravassard, at Paris Brain Institute, in collaboration with the Pole of Therapeutic Innovation in Neuropsychiatry at the Servier Research...

Alzheimer disease is a major source of preoccupation. A real issue for public health at a global scale, its socio-economic consequences are important. Synonym for cognitive deterioration, it is difficult to live with for the patient but also his...

6 genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease have been discovered thanks to a study conducted by an international consortium of researchers, including Professor Alexis Brice’s team at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM...

A research team of the Institut du Cerveau - ICM institute took part to an international study identifying 18 new genes implicated in hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP). This work, published on January the 31th on the prestigious website of the...

An international clinical trial in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was conducted in France and Italy. Led in France by reasearchers from the Brain and Spinal institute (Jean Philippe Brandel and Stéphane Haïk), this study opens new perspectives for the...