
Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as autobiographical hypermnesia, or hyperthymesia. This...
08.28.2025
Research, science & health

In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from 37 scientific institutions—including Paris Brain Institute—unveil the DREAM database: an ambitious project designed to centralize, share, and standardize data from research on sleep...
08.14.2025
Research, science & health

First described 60 years ago, chronic myoclonus following cerebral anoxia is now known as Lance-Adams syndrome. This is a severe disorder whose mechanisms were, until now, poorly understood. Geoffroy Vellieux, Vincent Navarro, and their colleagues at...
06.16.2025
Research, science & health

Thanks to 7T fMRI, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and NeuroSpin, the CEA's neuroimaging centre, are exploring the neural substrate of visual imagery at very high resolution for the first time. Their results, publiés [i] in Cortex, pave the...
06.06.2025
Research, science & health

The ICEBERG cohort, initiated 10 years ago, is interested in studying factors predictive of the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease.
05.15.2025
Research, science & health

Although every person’s personality is the result of genetic and environmental factors, these are not the only factors at play. Bassem Hassan and his team at Paris Brain Institute have discovered that, in fruit flies (drosophila), individuality also...
05.12.2025
Research, science & health

A study by Stéphanie Baulac’s team has revealed somatic mutations in different cell types in patients with type 2 focal cortical dysplasia. This disease causes drug-resistant epileptic seizures, for which the main treatment option is currently...
05.12.2025
Research, science & health

Huntington's disease, a rare hereditary neurological disorder, is associated with an energy deficit that precedes the onset of symptoms and is closely linked to their progression. At Paris Brain Institute, Fanny Mochel and her colleagues are testing...
02.11.2025
Research, science & health

Could exploring the relationships between different brain networks help us understand frontotemporal dementia (FTD)? This neurodegenerative disease, which progresses at varying rates, is often diagnosed late—when clinical signs are already severe. At...
01.07.2025
Research, science & health

Certain patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) can partially regenerate myelin—the protective sheath that surrounds nerve fibers—which is damaged during the evolution of the disease. In studying how immune cells influence this remyelination...
12.19.2024
Research, science & health

What if we could resist compulsions? These irrational behaviours, particularly common in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are hard to suppress. At Paris Brain Institute, Éric Burguière's team shows that we can anticipate them and block them...
09.10.2024
Research, science & health

Over the past fifteen years, neurosurgeons have been perfecting a fascinating technique: using ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier to facilitate the action of therapeutic molecules in the central nervous system. At Paris Brain...
09.05.2024
Research, science & health