Cognitive neuroscience

The number of patients living with neurodegenerative diseases that affect movement is rising steadily across Europe. Yet a large-scale study from the Paris Brain Institute and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that this is not an emerging...

For decades, cell biology has built its approach around the study of genes and molecules, pushing the physical forces that sculpt our tissues into the background. Today, an international consortium, coordinated by Fanny Mochel at the Paris Brain...

We tend to take for granted that the thoughts associated with sleep have a particular quality: we often describe them as elusive, abstract, or marked by a certain strangeness. Yet a study conducted by researchers from the DreamTeam at the Paris Brain...

The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying creative thinking are still poorly understood. A new study from the FrontLab team at the Paris Brain Institute explores this question from an original angle by examining creativity where it sometimes...

Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying mutations in the DEPDC5...

Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, revealed the key stages of vascular development in the brain, from birth through adulthood. Using a 3D digital atlas called...