Visual rehabilitation at the heart of a European research program
Want to know more about the European study run by Dr. Reber on visual rehabilitation? Check the video made by University of Strasbourg.
The neural circuits and signalling pathways of opioid use disorder
This review from Nature Reviews Neuroscience, written by our two researchers, Emmanuel DARCQ and Victor MATHIS, in collaboration with Aliza EHRLICH, highlights recent advances in our understanding of opioid receptors and the neural circuits in which they operate (including the broad network of circuits involved in reward and relief processing),…
11th French ALS and MND Research Days
Isabelle Weber rewarded at the 11th French ALS and MND Research Days.
News
Visual rehabilitation at the heart of a European research program
Want to know more about the European study run by Dr. Reber on visual rehabilitation? Check the video made by University of Strasbourg.
Incubation of social deficit during morphine abstinence in male mice using a novel unbiased and automatized method
Face of the global opioid addiction epidemic and the frequent relapses observed after withdrawal, understanding the brain and behavioral mechanisms of…
The neural circuits and signalling pathways of opioid use disorder
This review from Nature Reviews Neuroscience, written by our two researchers, Emmanuel DARCQ and Victor MATHIS, in collaboration with Aliza EHRLICH,…
11th French ALS and MND Research Days
Isabelle Weber rewarded at the 11th French ALS and MND Research Days.
Two prizes for PhD students in the Psychiatry team
Several pieces of good news in October for former and current PhD students in the Psychiatry team.
ESF funding: visual rehabilitation and virtual reality
Michael Reber, an INSERM researcher in the Psychiatry team, has secured €1.2 million in funding from the European Science Foundation under the Fight…
Rethinking addiction
Rethinking addiction: Technological advances, mechanistic insights and the re-evaluation of substance use disorders. This collection of scientific…
MNS 2025
Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference (Chania, Crete, Greece)
Body Self symposium
On 20 and 21 March 2025, the international symposium ‘The Sense of Self: One Body, Multiple Mechanisms’ was held at the Dental Surgery Centre.
Brain Week
Held every year in March, Brain Week is an international event organized simultaneously in some 100 countries and over 120 towns in France, to raise…
Promoting Sciences
Every year, our laboratory strives to promote sciences among young people.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: sleep disorders precede the onset of motor symptoms
Sleep disorders are well known in several neurodegenerative diseases, but remain little studied in the case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In…
NeuroStra Scientific Day 2024
Marina Hernán Godoy and LingYi Zhang, both PhD students in the ALS-FTD team, awarded at the NeuroStra Scientific Day 2024.
Visit of Olivier Goy, president of ARSLA
On the 6th of November 2024, Olivier Goy, President of ARSLA (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Association) visited the CRBS accompanied by…
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Foundation for Medical Research Prize
Caroline Rouaux, winner of the Fabrice Le Mouhaër Prize from the French Foundation for Medical Research
10th French ALS and MND Research Days
Marina Hernán Godoy rewarded at the 10th French ALS and MND Research Days
Publications
Visual rehabilitation and virtual reality
Children with certain types of brain tumors experience visual field loss (hemianopia), which dramatically impacts their quality of life. Until now,…
Sleep alterations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Sleep disorders are well known in several neurodegenerative diseases, but remain little studied in the case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In…
Cortical hyperexcitability and noradrenaline deficiency in ALS
This new publication by Scekic-Zahirovic et al. shows that cortical hyperexcitability is associated with early deficits in phase-amplitude theta-gamma…
Model of negative affect induced by withdrawal after acute and chronic administration of morphine
The mechanisms behind negative affect following opiate withdrawal precipitated by an antagonist such as naloxone are not well known. The Addictions…
Hypothalamic hormone linked to metabolic dysregulation in ALS
This recent research shows that the loss of MCH+ hypothalamic neurons is linked to the metabolic problems that occur in ALS. Amyotrophic lateral…
New genes linked to ALS
Work by Luc Dupuis' team has shown direct links between the genetics and anatomopathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's…
About STEP
This jointly labelled research unit (UMR-S), established by INSERM and the University of Strasbourg, emerged from the integration of the former UMR-S 1114 (Kieffer & Giersch's lab) and UMR-S 1118 (Dupuis's lab).
Its main mission is the integration of the expertise of the three teams and the bridging of knowledge within this research unit.
The recently appointed Head of the Department is Dr Luc Dupuis, assisted by the co-directors of the teams within STEP, Dr Giersch for the Psychiatry team, Dr Lalanne & Dr Darcq for the Addictions team and Dr Rouaux for the ALS-FTD team.
For more detailed explanations on our teams, please visit their respective presentation page.