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Nikos K. Logothetis is a neuroscience professor at the Max Planck Institute and visited the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on December 14, 2015. In this interview, he explains how the NET-fMRI technique works, allowing scientists to record communications...

Patients with fronto-temporal dementia need specific and appropriate medical care. However, this disease is still too often confused with Alzheimer's disease. Clinicians and researchers from Paris Brain Institute and from the Memory and Alzheimer's...

Fiona Doetsch is a research group leader at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Upon her visit at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, she presented her work on stem cells, and more specifically, on what triggers their activation. Stem cells could...

The Institut du Cerveau - ICM scientists have recently discovered a mechanism which protects neurons from cell death. The loss of this protective mechanism may contribute to the degeneration of neurons in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Yves Agid's forum, neurologist and founding member of the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, after the symposium on the History of FENS-Institut du Cerveau - ICM Neuroscience, on December 3 and 4, 2015.

The majority of neurodegenerative disorders, from Alzheimer's disease to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to Parkinson's disease, share common features with prion diseases.

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...