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During generalized seizures, in which epileptic activities affect the entire cerebral cortex, patients undergo an interruption of their conscious processes and are unable to deal efficiently with sensory stimuli. Using a genetic model of absence...

The frontal lobe controls our more complex behaviours such as decision-making or creativity. In a new study published in Cerebral Cortex, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten's team, at Paris Brain Institute, has identified 12 areas of this part of the brain...

In a study published in the new international scientific journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, Benjamin Rohaut, Inserm researcher, and Lionel Naccache, team leader of the " Picnic lab : Physiological Investigation of Clinically Normal and Impaired...

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Defending oneself against infections is crucial for health and survival. But detecting bacteria before they enter the body is even more advantageous! Our senses of smell and taste are particularly important for survival: they allow us to know if some...

William Richardson, Pr. at the University College of London (UCL), was at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on June the 13st 2016. He talks about the important role of oligodendrocytes for learning in adult brain.

Teams from the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, the Pierre and Marie Curie University, the Inserm and the CarThera company, hosted at the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), coordinated by professor Alexandre Carpentier...

In our representation of the world, how do we link an electron and the moon ? Through analogical reasoning ! Both gravitate around a nucleus or around earth. Analogical reasoning is a thinking process enabling us to notice a similarity between two...

Basic research in the field of nutrition has enabled to develop, in animals, a system regulating the expression of a gene through a specific diet leading to original therapeutic applications. Developed by a team from the Human Nutrition Unit (Inra...

Trisomy 21 is the first genetic cause of intellectual disabilities, and currently cognitive rehabilitation is the only therapeutic approach offered to patients. A phase II clinical trial conducted by an international team involving researchers from...

Professor Adrian Isaacs, neuroscientist at the London University College (UCL), was the Institut du Cerveau - ICM's guest on April 18, 2016. On this occasion, he discusses his research on C9orf72 gene, which unusual mutation is at the origin of two...

A specialist in genetics of epilepsy, Stephanie Baulac, co-responsible of the team "genetics and physiopathology of family epilepsies" at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, is the winner of an ERC Consolidator Grant.