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FENS Forum 2026

The Inserm UMR-S 1329 STEP unit was well represented at the FENS Forum 2026.

Psychiatry

Embrace interdisciplinarity!

On 9 April 2026, the “Embracing Interdisciplinarity” event brought together researchers from the various ITIs at the University of Strasbourg.

Addiction

Recherche et soin unis face à l’addiction aux opioïdes

Addiction

Environnement social et comportement de type addictif, quel rapport ?

Dans une interview accordée au journal Savoir(s), Victor Mathis, chargé de recherche dans l'équipe Addictions, évoque l’influence de l’environnement…

ALS-FTD

Research brings new hope for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

To mark Brain Awareness Week, Luc Dupuis, Director of UMR-S 1329, was a guest on the “Focus en Alsace” program on RFC Alsace radio.

ALS-FTD

What if the first signs of ALS were found... in sleep?

In a video interview with Inserm, Matei Bolborea discusses the findings of a recently published paper suggesting that detailed sleep analysis could…

Psychiatry

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.

Addiction

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…

Addiction

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,…

ALS-FTD

11th French ALS and MND Research Days

Isabelle Weber rewarded at the 11th French ALS and MND Research Days.

Psychiatry

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.

Psychiatry

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…

Addiction

Rethinking addiction

Rethinking addiction: Technological advances, mechanistic insights and the re-evaluation of substance use disorders. This collection of scientific…

Addiction

MNS 2025

Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference (Chania, Crete, Greece)

Psychiatry

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.

Addiction ALS-FTD Psychiatry

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…

Publications

Psychiatry

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,…

ALS-FTD

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…

ALS-FTD

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…

Addiction

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…

ALS-FTD

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…

ALS-FTD

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…