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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...

Giovanni Stevanin, researcher at the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), and his collaborators identified a recurring mutation in a new gene responsible for cerebellar axatia that en-codes a calcium channel expressed in certain...

Very few people pretend they have never dreamt. Pr. Isabelle Arnulf’s work, Head of sleep disorders at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and researcher at Paris Brain Institute, and her colleagues, prove that this is false. Everybody dreams, but some do...

Several recent studies confirm that the presence of senile plaques or the beta-amyloid protein permit the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease or predictions as to who will develop the disease.