Les aires cérébrales associées à l’olfaction sont plus développées chez les parfumeurs professionnels que chez le « commun des mortels ». En outre, plus ces experts ont une longue carrière derrière eux, plus grande est la quantité de matière grise dans leurs aires olfactives. Ce nouvel exemple de l’étonnante plasticité cérébrale dont est doté l’être humain vient d’être révélé par des chercheurs du CNRS/Inserm
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Founder and Honorary Director of INMED (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée), INSERM, and Eric Lemonnier, a clinician specialising in autism at the CHRU of Brest, recently published the results of a double-blind clinical trial to evaluate the usefulness of a diuretic in the treatment of autism
(French) Des chercheurs de l'Inserm, du CNRS et de l'Université Joseph Fourier à Grenoble, en collaboration avec des cliniciens du CHU de Strasbourg, ont analysé les données de 17 patients dans le coma à partir des données d'IRM fonctionnelle. Ils ont pu mettre en évidence, chez ces patients, une réorganisation des réseaux cérébraux.
A large-scale international study involving French researchers from the Inserm-Institut Pasteur Lille-Université Lille Nord de France “Public health and molecular epidemiology of ageing-related diseases” joint research unit led by Philippe Amouyel, has just discovered a gene for susceptibility to a rare disease that causes susceptibility to a common one, Alzheimer’s disease, providing evidence of the heterogeneous aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease.
A "sonar vision" system enabling the congenitally blind to perceive the shape of a face, a house, and even letters and words is being developed by a team at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.
A team of researchers from Strasbourg, directed by Luc Dupuis (Inserm unit 692 “molecular signalling and neurodegeneration”), have recently discovered the origin of spasms - a disabling symptom of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat symptoms of anxiety and sleeping disorders. Collaborative research conducted by researchers from three Inserm units in Bordeaux has recently highlighted the link between benzodiazepine use and the development of dementia in the over 65s.
Using innovative technology to analyse MRI anatomical data, researchers have successfully detected 3D shape variations in the brains of some patients suffering from schizophrenia.
A novel device that makes it possible to draw and write using just eye movements has been developed by a CNRS researcher at the Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (CNRS/UPMC/Inserm).
On June 18th, a one-day scientific symposium in Paris entitled “Neurobiological basis of Anxiety disorders”, got together scientists from 6 of the partners of DEVANX (1) , a European project coordinated by Inserm and launched in 2008. It was an opportunity to take stock of what knowledge has been acquired about the neurological basis of […]
An article to be published in Plos One describes how Inserm researchers have succeeded in preserving the visual function in rats suffering from glaucoma.
