• Epigenetics, Brain and Behavior
  Paris, April 18, 2011 (in preparation)
• Characterizing Consciousness: from Cognition to the Clinic?
  Paris, May 3, 2010
• Macro-Roles for microRNAs in the Life and Death of Neurons
  Paris, April 20, 2009
• Neurobiology of «Umwelt»: How Living Beings Perceive the World
  Paris, February 18, 2008
• Retrotransposition, Diversity & the Brain
  Paris, March 12, 2007
• Memories: Molecules and Circuits
  Paris, April 24, 2006
• Neurobiology of Human Values
  Paris, January 24 , 2005
• Stem Cells in the Nervous System: Function and Clinical Implications
  Paris, January 20, 2003
• Neurosciences at the Post-Genomic Era
  Paris, December 3, 2001
• Neuronal Death: by Accident or by Design
  Paris, October 9, 2000
• Neuroimmune Interactions and Neuropsychiatric Diseases
  Paris, October 5, 1998
• Neuroplasticity: Building a Bridge from the Laboratory to the Clinic
  Paris, October 6, 1997
• Normal and Abnormal Development of the Cortex
  Paris, October 16, 1996
• Isolation, Characterization and Utilization of CNS Stem Cells
  Paris, September 18, 1995
• Neurobiology of Decision-Making
  Paris, October 24, 1994
• Temporal Coding
  Paris, October 11, 1993
• Motor and Cognitive Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex
  Paris, November 23, 1992
• Gene Transfer and Therapy in the Nervous System
  Paris, September 23, 1991
• Glutamate, Cell Death and Memory
  Paris, September 24, 1990

• 2010 Thomas Insel (Bethesda, USA), Bruce S. McEwen (New York, USA) and Donald Pfaff (New York, USA) 
  Neuroendocrine control of behavior.
• 2009 Alim Louis Benabid (Grenoble, France), Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, USA) and  Miguel Nicolelis (Durham, USA)
  Brain-Machine interaction.
• 2008 Jean-Pierre Changeux (Paris, France), Peter W. Kalivas (Charleston, USA) and  Eric J. Nestler (Dallas, USA)
  Molecular targets of drugs abuse.
• 2007 Nikos K. Logothetis (Tübingen, Germany), Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma, Italy) and  Keiji Tanaka (Wako, Japan)
  Neurophysiology of cognition.
• 2006 Eckart Gundelfinger (Magdeburg, Germany), Mary Kennedy (Pasadena, USA) and  Morgan Sheng (Cambridge, USA)
  Synapse protein complexes in neuronal plasticity.
• 2005 Ann Graybiel (Cambridge, USA), Trevor Robbins (Cambridge, UK) and  Wolfram Schultz (Cambridge, UK)
  Motivation and associative learning.
• 2004 James Gusella (Boston, USA), Jean-Louis Mandel (Strasbourg, France) and  Huda Zoghbi (Houston, USA)
  Triplet diseases and neuronal plasticity.
• 2003 François Clarac (Marseille, France), Sten Grillner (Stockholm, Sweden) and  Serge Rossignol (Montreal, Canada)
  Motor control.
• 2002 Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (San Francisco, USA), Ronald McKay (Bethesda, USA) and Samuel Weiss (Calgary, Canada)
  Stem cells in the central nervous system.
• 2001 Albert Galaburda (Boston, USA), John Morton (London, UK) and  Elizabeth Spelke (Cambridge, USA)
  Psychological development in children.
• 2000 Tomas Hökfelt (Stockholm, Sweden), Lars Olson (Stockholm, Sweden) and  Lars Terenius (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Neuromodulation in neuronal plasticity.
• 1999 Masakazu Konishi (Pasadena, USA), Peter Marler (Davis, USA) and Fernando Nottebohm (Millbrook, USA)
  Animal models.
• 1998 Heinrich Betz (Frankfurt, Germany), Gerald Fischbach (Boston, USA) and Uel McMahan (Stanford, USA)
  Formation of synapses at the molecular level.
• 1997 Antonio Damasio (Iowa City, USA), Richard Frackowiak (London, UK) and Michael Merzenich (San Francisco, USA)
  Brain maps and their plasticity.
• 1996 Friedrich Bonhoeffer (Tübingen, Germany) Corey Goodman (Berkeley, USA) and  Marc Tessier-Lavigne (San Francisco, USA)
  Axonal guidance.
• 1995 Jacques Melher (Paris, France), Brenda Milner (Montreal, Canada) and Mortimer Mishkin (Bethesda, USA)
  Cognitive processes in humans and primates.
• 1994 Mariano Baarbacid (Princeton, USA), Yves-Alain Barde (Planegg-Martinsried, Germany) and Hans Thoenen (Planegg-Martinsried, Germany)
  Neurotrophic factors.
• 1993 Per Andersen (Oslo, Norway), Masao Ito (Wako Saitama, Japan) and Constantino Sotelo (Paris, France)
  Neuronal plasticity at the synaptic level in the hippocampus and the cerebellum.
• 1992 Philippe Ascher (Paris, France), Kjell Fuxe (Stockholm, Sweden) and Terje LØmo (Oslo, Norway)
  Interactions at the receptors level.
• 1991 Ursula Bellugi (La Jolla, USA), Wolf Singer (Frankfurt, Germany) and Torsten Wiesel (New York, USA)
  Plasticity in the visual system.
• 1990 Albert Aguayo (Montreal, Canada), Anders Bjorklund (Lund, Sweden) and Fred Gage (la Jolla, USA)
  Neuronal grafting.

* Please note that the international jury in charge of awarding the prize is not expecting any application: laureates are selected on the basis of either their main achievements throughout their career, or in recognition of a particularly important work. Publications of potential laureates are carefully checked by the jury members before they meet for a final decision.

• 2010 Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma, Italy)
  Cortical physiology.

• 2009 Pierre Maquet (Liège, Belgium)
  Sleep and cognition.
• 2008 Elizabeth Warrington (London, UK)
  Semantic knowledge.
• 2007 Alvaro Pascual Leone (Boston, USA)
  Plasticity and rehabilitation.
• 2006 Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (London, UK)
  Genetics and behavior.
• 2004 Antonio and Hanna Damasio (Iowa City, USA)
  Social cognition.
• 2003 Uta Frith (London, UK)
  Neurocognitive development.
• 2002 Deepak Pandya (Boston, USA)
  Cognitive neuroanatomy.
• 2005 Marc Jeannerod (Lyon, France)
  Motor control.
• 2001 Stanislas Dehaene (Orsay, France)
  Mathematics and the brain.
• 2000 Joaquim Fuster (Los Angeles, USA)
  Executive functions.
• 1999 Joseph LeDoux (New York, USA)
  Emotion.
• 1998 Eduardo Bisiach (Turino, Italy)
  Hemineglect.
• 1997 Jean-Pierre Changeux (Paris, France)
  Biology of cognition.
• 1996 Alfonso Caramazza (Cambridge, USA)
  Language and the brain.
• 1995 Stephen Kosslyn (Cambridge, USA)
  Vision and cognition.
• 1994 Rodolfo Llinas (New York, USA)
  Consciousness.
• 1993 Jacques Paillard (Marseille, France)
  Movement.
• 1992 Eric Kandel (Boston, USA)
  Memory.

* Please note that the international jury in charge of awarding the prize is not expecting any application: laureates are selected on the basis of either their main achievements throughout their career, or in recognition of a particularly important work. Publications of potential laureates are carefully checked by the jury members before they meet for a final decision.