The Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) is a recognized public utility foundation founded in 2005 which has housed since 2010, on the site of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, a research center run by 600 researchers, engineers and technicians conducting basic or clinical research on the brain and neurological or psychiatric diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, cancer, dementia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, etc.)