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During the Second Neurothics Network meeting, Christine Mitchell, professor at Harvard University and researcher in the "Human Brain Project," explain the mission of the project and some of the ethical questions it raises.

In a recent study of a large sample of Icelanders, researchers identified a correlation between the presence of a mutation on the gene ABCA7 and Alzheimer disease.

MedDay, a biotechnology company centred on disorders of the nervous system and incubated at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM, announced today that the main criterion of its pivotal clinical trial MS-SPI was attained. The...

Why aren't we aware of outside noises when we sleep? A study, carried out at Neurospin in collaboration with the "Centre du sommeil et de la vigilance" of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris (AP-HP), the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), the...

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.

Dr. Claire Wyart leads a research team working on nerve networks of the spinal cord at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM, Institut du Cerveau et de la moelle épinière – in Paris. In team with Dr Patrick Delmas from Marseille...

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...