Research, science & health

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...

Diagnosing Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) is difficult and requires robust and reliable tools. A study conducted by Denis Engemann (Inria, French national research institute for the digital sciences – CEA NeuroSpin) and Federico Raimondo...

A recent study conducted by a research team around Hilke Plassmann, the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Decision Neuroscience & Paris Brain Institute (Paris Brain Institute – Inserm/CNRS/Sorbonne Université), a principal investigator in the Social...

Would you rather have a piece of chocolate cake or steamed veggies? Making healthy food choices isn’t always easy! A study conducted by a team of researchers around Liane Schmidt (Inserm) and Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD) at the Brain and Spine Institute...

INSIGHT study highlights compensation mechanisms in patients with Alzheimer’s disease lesions used to maintain intellectual and memory capabilities.

Bassem Hassan’s team at Institut du Cerveau - ICM discovered a specific type of neural stem cell and deciphered a highly precise temporal control mechanism for their function during brain development in Drosophila (fruit flies). The results were...

Alzheimer’s disease represents one of the largest remaining unsolved threats to our health. This disease in common with other neurological disorders has been elusive because it is hard to diagnose. Our current ability to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease...

How can we know if a patient is conscious if he or she is unable to communicate? Disorders of consciousness can be differentiated in two types: the “vegetative” state, with no awareness from the patient and the “minimally conscious” state, with a...

Prof. Cori Bargmann from Rockefeller University was at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM on June 6th 2017 to give a conference on « Neuromodulatory regulation through timescales in C. Elegans nematodes ».

Restlessness in sleep is common, however it may be a symptom of two illnesses that seem to be complete opposites: sleepwalking and behavioral disorders in REM sleep. The first affects a younger population and takes place during deep sleep, whereas...

The first WIRED (Workshop on Intracranial Recordings in humans : Epilepsy, DBS) will be held at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on October 3 and 4. Conferences, technical discussions, poster session, commercial solutions, wine and cheese… all...

Teams from AP-HP in collaboration with Paris Brain Institute researchers (Inserm/CNRS/UPMC) and CNRS-derived startup Metafora Biosystems have developed a diagnostic blood test for De Vivo disease, a rare yet treatable neurological illness.