Research, science & health

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains poorly understood from a biological perspective. An international study led by scientists from the Paris Brain Institute and Monash University in Australia suggests that some symptoms may be...

Can brain imaging reveal whether a person is affected by depression? This question has driven research for many years. Changes in brain structure have indeed been observed in patients with depression, suggesting that structural MRI might one day help...

Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are eligible for the procedure. For these individuals...

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and mice. The study, published in Nature Metabolism...

The most severe form of epilepsy, status epilepticus is a high-risk neurological emergency. Yet its epidemiology remains poorly understood, particularly in France. By analyzing data from the French National Health Insurance system, compiled within...

There is currently no cure for Alzheimer's disease. The treatments available in France—which are not reimbursed—are known as symptomatic treatments, meaning that they act on the consequences of the disease rather than its underlying cause. In 2018...

A molecule previously studied in the context of sleep disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now, for the first time, revealing its potential in experimental models of multiple sclerosis (MS): it protects neurons and...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To better diagnose them and predict their recovery potential, Dragana Manasova, Jacobo Sitt, and their colleagues have developed an...

What if the flow of our thoughts occasionally just stopped? Esteban Munoz-Musat, Lionel Naccache, Thomas Andrillon, and their colleagues at Paris Brain Institute and Monash University in Melbourne show that the sensation of “thinking about nothing”...

An international study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity shows that patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) have a unique biology, different from those who respond to standard therapies. More than 5,000 genes were found to behave...

The anomalies underlying neurodegenerative diseases may arise during development—decades before the first symptoms appear. This hypothesis is gaining traction thanks to a new study published in Nature Communications. According to researchers from the...

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...