events, seminars
June 3rd, 2022 – David Smith (Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA) – The Hippocampus and the Neural Basis of Context-Dependent Memory
The environmental context is known to plays a profound role in memory. The context is a potent retrieval cue that primes the memories that belong to that context. This is highly adaptive because it prevents interference from memories that belong… Continue reading
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Open Mind Master students grants – 2022
The three laureates of the Open Mind grants for 2022 are
Ekaterina Kozlova, whose project Modeling and simulating electrical conduction in nerves with damaged myelin is supervised by Samuel Bottani (Team Neurophysics MSCmed, MSC Laboratory, UMR 7057 CNRS).
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events, seminars
Thursday, May 12th, 2022 – Melissa Bowerman (Keele University, UK) – Combining bioinformatic and drug repurposing approaches to develop second-generation therapies for spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating childhood disease caused by loss of function of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene, leading to the death of nerve and muscle cells. The first SMN gene replacement therapies have recently been approved… Continue reading
events, seminars
May 13rd, 2022 – Alain Chédotal (Institut de la Vision, Paris) – Development and evolution of visual projections
In most animal species including humans, commissural axons connect neurons on the left and right side of the nervous system. This communication between the two sides of the brain and spinal cord is necessary for a series of complex function,… Continue reading
events, seminars
April 22nd, 2022 – Ariel di Nardo (College de France, Paris) – OTX2 non cell autonomous activity regulates anxiety-like behavior
Our laboratory has been working for several years on the role of non-cell autonomous homeoprotein transcription factors in regulating cerebral cortex physiology. We have shown that in mice the OTX2 homeoprotein is expressed in the choroid plexus, secreted into cerebrospinal… Continue reading
events, seminars
April 1st , 2022 – Markus Heilig (Linköping University, Sweden) – Neurobiological mechanisms of individual vulnerability to alcohol addiction-like behaviors
Neurobiological research on alcohol addiction had grown, but no mechanistically novel medications have been approved in more than 15 years. Promising candidates have failed in development. What have we been missing?
Three themes have emerged from our attempts to address… Continue reading
facts
An ERC consolidator grant awarded to Claire Sergent!
Brain mechanisms of conscious processing, from correlates to signatures
When we are awake, part of the information processed by our brain becomes conscious, so that we can acknowledge and report it. Despite important advances, there is no consensus on what… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Call for Open Mind Masters students grants – 2022
The INC will fund three M2 internships this year. Applications should be sent to inc@parisdescartes.fr before May, 10. The decision will be made at the beginning of June. More details can be found on the French version of the site.
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videos
INC Day 2021 – Asli Ayaz – Context matters : vision and touch in action
Captation et conception vidéo: Service audiovisuel de Paris Descartes.
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videos
INC Day 2021 – Mitchell Roitman – Phasic dopamine signaling in the homeostasis to action arc
Captation et conception vidéo: Service audiovisuel de Paris Descartes.
Video on MediasD
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