Press releases
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Musical memory deficits start in auditory cortex
25.04.2013 - Press release
Congenital amusia is a disorder characterized by impaired musical skills, which can extend to an inability to recognize very familiar tunes. The neural bases of this deficit are now being deciphered. According to a study conducted by researchers from CNRS and Inserm ...
Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry
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Are babies endowed with consciousness?
19.04.2013 - Press release
Babies have long been considered as beings with limited skills and behaviors that are principally automatic and of a reflex type, and are not accompanied by a subjective conscious experience. Nevertheless, CNRS scientists in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques ...
Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry
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Producing new neurones under all circumstances: a challenge that is just a mouse away ….
02.04.2013 - Press release
INSERM and CEA researchers recently showed that the pharmacological blocking of the TGFβ molecule improves the production of new neurones in the mouse model. ...
Immunology, hematology, pulmonology Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry
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A chip that is 100% biocompatible to measure brain activity
12.03.2013 - Press release
Researchers have designed a system for sensing brain activity that is 100% biocompatible and made of organic matter. The medium, which is only a few microns thick, is as thin and flexible as cellophane, and yet very tough. The model was tested ...
Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry Health technologies
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Seven genetic risk factors associated with AMD
05.03.2013 - Press release
An international group of researchers has discovered seven new regions in the human genome associated with an increased risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the main causes of blindness. ...
Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry
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“Simplified” brain lets the iCub robot learn language
13.02.2013 - Press release
The iCub humanoid robot on which the team directed by Peter Ford Dominey, CNRS Director of Research at Inserm Unit 846 known as the “Institut pour les cellules souches et cerveau de Lyon” [Lyon Institute for Stem Cell and Brain Research] (Inserm, ...
Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry