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Developpemental Coordination Disorder, or dyspraxia, a new collective expert review by Inserm

L’Inserm publie une nouvelle expertise collective sur le trouble développemental de la coordination (TDC), ou dyspraxie. Elle repose sur l’étude, par un groupe d’experts, de plus de 1400 articles scientifiques pour explorer ce trouble encore méconnu mais qui touche environ 5 % ...
Press release | 09 Dec 2019 | Institutional and special event Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry Public health

Is physical activity always good for the heart?

Physical activity is thought to be our greatest ally in the fight against cardiovascular disease. But there may be significant variations in its protective effects across a range of different situations, such as regularly playing a sport, carrying heavy loads at work, ...
Press release | 04 Nov 2019 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Public health

Study on the medico-economic implications of the level of insecurity in Inpatient Pediatrics

Teams of the Clinical Research Unit in Health Economics "ECO Île-de-France" * at the Hotel Dieu AP-HP, the Clinical Epidemiology Unit and Pediatric Endocrinology-diabetology Service hospital Robert Debré AP-HP, and mixed research unit INSERM / University of Paris U1123 "clinical Epidemiology and ...
| 30 Oct 2019 | Public health

Pediatric Cancers: Why Some Forms of Leukemia Only Affect Children

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mainly affects children, with the prognosis often being poor despite several decades of research into more effective treatments. A new study explains why some forms of leukemia develop in very young children. ...
Press release | 29 Oct 2019 | Cancer

The creativity of the human mind rooted in errors ?

Most of our choices are not motivated by curiosity but by errors caused by the brain mechanisms implicated in evaluating our options. ...
Press release | 28 Oct 2019 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

How People with Autism Might Avoid Socio-Emotional Situations

One hypothesis put forward to explain the repetitive behaviors of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lack of cognitive flexibility. However, this may well not be the case. A recent study used MRI to track the brain activity of autistic and ...
Press release | 28 Oct 2019 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry Health technologies

Rare Diseases: Over 300 Million Patients Affected Worldwide

Rare diseases represent a global problem. Until now, the lack of data made it difficult to estimate their prevalence. Created and coordinated by Inserm, the Orphanet database, has made it possible to obtain a global estimate. ...
| 24 Oct 2019 | Public health
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