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Ron R. Kopito, Professor of Biology at Stanford University, has been working for the last several years with his team on problems related to protein folding, which is notably affected in certain neurodegenerative diseases. In particular, protein...

On the occasion of National Epilepsy Day, Vincent Navarro, neurologist and Institut du Cerveau - ICM researcher, and Stéphanie Baulac, co-leader of the team “Genetics and physiology of hereditary epilepsy,” and the start-up Bioserenity led a...

The Behavioural Neuropsychiatry Unit (BNPU) is a clinical unit established in 2013 through the IHU-A-Institut du Cerveau - ICM in the framework of the “Investissements d’Avenir” in close cooperation with the APHP / Pitié Salpêtrière.

A team at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM showed that different mutations of one gene, ALDH18A1, are associated with several types of hereditary spastic paraplegias and different modes of transmission. Moreover, the researchers identified a new blood...

Karl Friston, Professor of Neuroscience at the University College London, was invited to give a scientific seminar at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on November 16, 2015. He explains how the understanding of how the brain perceives sensory signals...

The World Stroke Day for cerebral vascular accidents (CVA) took place on October 29, 2015. The research led at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM seeks to better understand these neurological accidents and to improve the recovery and rehabilitation of...

Giovanni Stevanin, researcher at the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), and his collaborators identified a recurring mutation in a new gene responsible for cerebellar axatia that en-codes a calcium channel expressed in certain...

Very few people pretend they have never dreamt. Pr. Isabelle Arnulf’s work, Head of sleep disorders at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and researcher at Paris Brain Institute, and her colleagues, prove that this is false. Everybody dreams, but some do...

Several recent studies confirm that the presence of senile plaques or the beta-amyloid protein permit the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease or predictions as to who will develop the disease.

In the framework of the new national Plan for the study of neurogenerative diseases (2014-2019), seven regional centres of excellence in the field of neurodegenerative diseases were selected from among the 12 projects submitted.

The Institut du Cerveau - ICM and the IHU-A-Institut du Cerveau - ICM announced in June, 2015, the launching of the "Big Brain Theory" program. This call for projects will attribute grants for new projects initiated by the researchers, clinicians...

Why do we like a painting or a person? Does our judgement depend only on the intrinsic value of the painting or the person? What if other factors intervene?