Research, science & health

A paper published in the prestigious journal Brain by a team of the Institut du Cerveau - ICM institute link rapid eye movement sleep disorders and Parkinson’s disease. These results open the possibilities to early diagnose development of the...

The illustration of this article is on the cover of the latest issue of the journal “Brain, a Journal of Neurology”

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) are a genetically heterogeneous group of invalidating neurological disorders characterized by a progressive difficulty walking due to stiff legs (spastic) and additional neurological signs like epilepsy, ataxia...

The aim of Dr A. Sittler, from the Alexis Brice and Giovanni Stevanin team, is to develop a new therapeutic strategy for the spinocerebellar ataxia SCA7.

A research team directed by Giovanni Stevanin and Alexis Brice from the Brain and Spine Institute, in collaboration with other teams of the international SPATAX network (coordinator, Alexandra Durr), have identified 3 new causative genes in...

One of the most exciting challenges in neurosciences is to understand how the brain encodes and stores new information from the environment in order to produce adequate changes in behaviour. In the past, the prevailing view concerning the cellular...