- 2015
- What's on? - 06.02.2015
Monday 9 February 2015: World Epilepsy Day
Epilepsy is the spontaneous occurrence of epileptic fits, resulting from abnormal and simultaneous discharge of thousands of neurons[1]. Individuals affected by epilepsy can suffer severe physical and psychological side-effects, particularly caused by the unpredictability of the fits (injuries, problems of attentiveness, etc.). A large number of events have been organised for World Epilepsy Day, particularly […]
- News in brief - 05.02.2015
Drug abuse and depression: towards a new understanding of brain mechanisms
Withdrawal, experienced by people when they stop using addictive drugs such as cocaine, induces states of anxiety and depression. This process makes the individual want to take the substance again, and thus plays a role in the establishment of drug addiction. The depressive syndrome thus represents an additional obstacle to be overcome when addicts are […]
- Press releases - 04.02.2015
Towards a new weapon against muscular dystrophy
Research efforts associating scientists from the CNRS, UVSQ and INSERM within the Laboratoire END-ICAP, working in collaboration with a team from the University of Bern, has demonstrated the therapeutic potential of a new class of synthetic oligonucleotides in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy using RNA “surgery”.
- Press releases - 03.02.2015
Osteoporosis : balancing bone formation and degradation
Researchers from the CNRS, Inserm and the Université de Montpellier and Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Étienne have developed a new approach for preventing the destructive activity of osteoclasts without affecting their viability.
- What's on? - 03.02.2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015: World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day takes place this Wednesday, 4 February. This international campaign is aimed at informing and sensitising the general public, as well as health professionals, about cancer prevention, screening, and management. According to a recent survey by Ipsos/French Foundation for Cancer Research[2] cancer is the disease most feared by French people today (86%), ahead […]
- Press releases - 02.02.2015
Road safety: presentation of the French government’s next action plan
In 2011, Inserm confirmed the hazard associated with using a telephone while driving in the collective expert report “Téléphone et Sécurité Routière.”
- What's on? - 02.02.2015
Road safety: presentation of the French government’s next action plan
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of the Interior, presented a plan of action to address all causes of lack of road safety on Monday 26 January 2015. Comprising 26 measures, the plan is aimed at sensitising, alerting and educating road users, combating serious breaches of road safety, and making France’s infrastructure safer.[1] In 2014, according to […]
- Press releases - 28.01.2015
Survival of very premature infants is improving in France: First results of the EPIPAGE 2 study
This study is aimed at assessing the survival of infants born between 22 and 34 weeks’ gestation, and their subsequent outcomes.
- Press releases - 23.01.2015
Brain and spatial attention: Can the left hemisphere compensate for a lesion in the right hemisphere?
Dr Paolo Bartolomeo and his collaborators have published the results of their research on “unilateral spatial neglect,” also known by the term “hemineglect,” in the journal Brain.
- Press releases - 22.01.2015
Influenza: France crosses epidemic threshold
According to the weekly bulletin of the Sentinelles network, the incidence of influenza crossed the epidemic threshold last week