Scientists have just identified in the mouse, and then confirmed in humans, a new factor that regulates addiction. Glutamate, a neurotransmitter[1], contributes to regulating dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, one of the cerebral structures of the reward system.
researchers from Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla’s team have pushed the limits of science even further. They managed to obtain totipotent cells with the same characteristics as those of the earliest embryonic stages and with even more interesting properties.
Researchers from the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin have just identified a network of areas of the brain that are organised in a way that could at least partially explain the specificity of the cognitive functions in the human species.
Researchers at Inserm Unit 897, “Epidemiology and Biostatistics Inserm Research Centre” (Inserm/University of Bordeaux) and the CIC-1401 Clinical Investigation Centre, in collaboration with Bordeaux University Hospital, have shown for the first time that there is a relationship between diabetes and neurocognitive disorders in people living with HIV, regardless of age.
A large-scale collaborative study revealed the acquisition of multi-resistant enterobacteria (MRE) in one in two travellers returning from a stay in a country situated in a tropical region.
Two teams of researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University have discovered a molecule that may favour the production of these induced stem cells.
At population level, vaccines contribute to reducing mortality associated with infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B or bacterial meningitis. The community general physician, at the centre of this preventive strategy, remains the main source of information for families. In an article published in the journal Ebiomedecine, Pierre Verger (Inserm Unit 912, “Economics and Social Sciences Applied to Health and Analysis of Medical Information – SESSTIM”) and...
To present the state of the art on the knowledge regarding the impact of climate change on health, and future research in this area, Aviesan (the French National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences) and Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) are organising a mini-symposium in conjunction with the UNESCO conference.
These remarkably high temperatures (around 40 °C) can have particularly harmful consequences on the health.
Our world turns out to be more or less predictable, and our brain has to adapt to this uncertainty to make the best possible choices in any situation. This is the subject that attracted Fabien Vinckier and Raphaël Gaillard, researchers at St Anne’s Hospital, Inserm and Paris Descartes University, in collaboration with Mathias Pessiglione, an Inserm researcher at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute at Pitié–Salpêtrière Hospital, AP-HP, and...