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In the framework of the new national Plan for the study of neurogenerative diseases (2014-2019), seven regional centres of excellence in the field of neurodegenerative diseases were selected from among the 12 projects submitted.

The Institut du Cerveau - ICM and the IHU-A-Institut du Cerveau - ICM announced in June, 2015, the launching of the "Big Brain Theory" program. This call for projects will attribute grants for new projects initiated by the researchers, clinicians...

Why do we like a painting or a person? Does our judgement depend only on the intrinsic value of the painting or the person? What if other factors intervene?

Gait and balance disorders and the associated falls caused by Parkinson disease are a major public health problem.

During the Second Neurothics Network meeting, Christine Mitchell, professor at Harvard University and researcher in the "Human Brain Project," explain the mission of the project and some of the ethical questions it raises.

In a recent study of a large sample of Icelanders, researchers identified a correlation between the presence of a mutation on the gene ABCA7 and Alzheimer disease.

MedDay, a biotechnology company centred on disorders of the nervous system and incubated at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM, announced today that the main criterion of its pivotal clinical trial MS-SPI was attained. The...

Why aren't we aware of outside noises when we sleep? A study, carried out at Neurospin in collaboration with the "Centre du sommeil et de la vigilance" of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris (AP-HP), the Brain and Spine Institute (Institut du Cerveau - ICM), the...

Can the left hemisphere compensate for a lesion in the right hemisphere?

The innovative results of a study on the effects of a synthetic oil on brain metabolism in Huntington disease, performed by researchers in the Institut du Cerveau - ICM were just published in the journal Neurology.

Dr. Claire Wyart leads a research team working on nerve networks of the spinal cord at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau - ICM, Institut du Cerveau et de la moelle épinière – in Paris. In team with Dr Patrick Delmas from Marseille...

Whatever the alphabet we use or the culture in which we are raised, it’s always the same small region of the visual cortex in the left hemisphere that allows us to identify the letters we see. Why, then, in the vast regions of the visual cortex that...