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As a specialist in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics, Edor Kabashi, leader of the team "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment : from genetics to zebrafish ", is the winner of an ERC Consolidator Grant.

In Nature Review Neurology, Professor Harald Hampel and Doctor Simone Lista highlight the need to refine the diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in order to set preventive measures and stem the progression toward dementia in...

Tics are the prime manifestations of Tourette's syndrome. How do they appear ? Why do they persist ? Yulia Worbe, from Mary Vidailhet's team, and her colleagues, have shown that patients with Tourette's syndrome develop more normal behaviours than...

Hans Hultborn, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, was invited at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on April 11, 2016. He explains how to identify and study interneurons during locomotion.

A major international conceptual diagnostic criteria and conceptual breakthrough program has been successfully launched and published, led by the UPMC and Institut du Cerveau - ICM researchers Professor Bruno Dubois and Professor Harald Hampel (AXA –...

A team coordinated by professor Emmanuel Flamand-Roze of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, AP-HP, and researcher at the Brain and Spine Institute, has tested at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM Clinical Investigation Center, the efficiency of zonisamide...

In the context of World Parkinson's disease day on April 11th, the Institut du Cerveau - ICM focuses on the latest discoveries.

March 23rd, 2016 - The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group today named Bassem Hassan, Ph.D., at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (Institut du Cerveau - ICM) in Paris an Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) with an award for research at...

Damien Salauze has been named Findmed Operations Manager at the Brain and Spine Institute.

Hereditary spastic paraplegias are a heterogeneous group of pathologies and share clinical similarities with other neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

In a rare and early form of Alzheimer's disease, Institut du Cerveau - ICM researchers have shown that, surprisingly, connectivity between neurons increases during the initial phase of the disease. This transitional increase would correspond to a...

For the first time in humans, an imaging study shows an early and protective role of the immune cells of the brain, called " microglial " cells, in Alzheimer's disease. Teams from the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center, from the CEA, from the Saint-Antoine...