Inserm researchers at I-Stem – the Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases – report encouraging results with metformin, a known diabetes drug, for the symptomatic treatment of Steinert myotonic dystrophy. A phase II trial conducted in 40 patients at ...
In recent years, the cognitive neurosciences have shown that it is possible to use conscious effort to alter memories. Researchers from the Inserm Center for Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Sainte Anne Hospital and Université Paris Descartes now show that it is possible to ...
À l’état conscient, différentes aires du cerveau, même non connectées anatomiquement, peuvent fonctionner en phase, grâce au phénomène de « réverbération » de l’information dans le cerveau. C’est cette propriété qui est bloquée sous anesthésie générale. Quel que soit l’agent anesthésique employé, l’effet d’une ...
Individuality exists in all animals, and a number of factors shape it over time. For mice, one of those factors is the social environment, as researchers at CNRS, INSERM and Sorbonne Université have just shown. In this species, some stable character traits ...
Why are some depressed patients more or less totally resistant to the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants? This question was addressed by researchers from Inserm ...
And what if, depending on the age at which it develops, hypertension had more or less significant consequences on maintaining our cognitive function? This was suggested by a study conducted by an Inserm team in partnership with the Department of Epidemiology and ...