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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...

Violetta Zujovic, Olga Corti and Stéphane Hunot, researchers at Institut du Cerveau - ICM, obtained an important grant from the Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards) programme for their research.

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...

Men and women face different chronic disease risks. Women, for example, are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. Although biological differences, cultural and social factors play a role, we do not fully understand the causes. Data...

The World Economic Forum is held from January 23 to 26. Some 70 heads of state and government are expected to participate in this popular meeting of bosses from around the world.

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...

Institut du Cerveau - ICM is seeking to recruit group leaders to reinforce its research in Neurophysiology, and welcomes applications for recruit highly talented individuals with the ambition to establish an internationally competitive research group...

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...

NeoNeuro SAS and the Australian Imaging, Biomarker & Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL) group are pleased to announce that they have entered into a collaboration to validate the performance of the Aptamarker platform for Alzheimer's disease...