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Teams from the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, the Pierre and Marie Curie University, the Inserm and the CarThera company, hosted at the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), coordinated by professor Alexandre Carpentier...

In our representation of the world, how do we link an electron and the moon ? Through analogical reasoning ! Both gravitate around a nucleus or around earth. Analogical reasoning is a thinking process enabling us to notice a similarity between two...

Basic research in the field of nutrition has enabled to develop, in animals, a system regulating the expression of a gene through a specific diet leading to original therapeutic applications. Developed by a team from the Human Nutrition Unit (Inra...

Trisomy 21 is the first genetic cause of intellectual disabilities, and currently cognitive rehabilitation is the only therapeutic approach offered to patients. A phase II clinical trial conducted by an international team involving researchers from...

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.

As a specialist in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics, Edor Kabashi, leader of the team "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment : from genetics to zebrafish ", 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...

Hans Hultborn, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, was invited at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on April 11, 2016. He explains how to identify and study interneurons during locomotion.

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...