Research, science & health

Spinocerebellar ataxias are a very heterogeneous group of inherited diseases associated with degeneration of the cerebellum – a region at the back of the skull that plays an essential role in motor control. Patients have gait and balance disorders...

What if Alzheimer’s disease left its mark on the embryo? Khadijeh Shabani and her colleagues from the “Brain Development” team led by Bassem Hassan (Inserm) at Paris Brain Institute show that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) has a specific...

Thanks to the collaboration between teams from the AP-HP, the MedTech METAFORA biosystems, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, Cerba Healthcare, and more than 30 investigating centers coordinated by Prof. Fanny Mochel at Paris Brain...

Does humor appreciation have a brain signature? In a new study published in Neuropsychologia, Vadim Axelrod at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with Lionel Naccache (Sorbonne University, AP-HP) at Paris Brain Institute, decrypts the...

No treatment currently exists that can stop the silent progression of multiple sclerosis, and many promising drugs have proved ineffective in clinical trials. To reduce this failure rate and better predict the potential of candidate molecules...

Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with different characters? To answer this question, Laurent Cohen...

Unlike classic epileptic seizures that last only a few seconds or minutes, " status epilepticus" refers to a state of neuronal hyperactivity in the cerebral cortex that persists for several hours or days. When this condition occurs without a readily...

Glioblastomas are the most common malignant tumors of the adult brain. They resist conventional treatment, including surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Despite thisarmamentarium, glioblastomas inexorably recur. In a new study...

Léonie KOBAN and Hilke PLASMANN, researchers in the team "CIA: cognitive control - interoception - attention", have identified a novel brain marker using functional imaging that predicts our preference for immediate rewards over larger later rewards...

Researchers led by Emmanuel Flamand-Roze, at Paris Brain Institute, have shown that a simple administration of oxygen can alleviate abnormal movement attacks in an orphan disease – alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC). These encouraging...

Sensory neurons pick up information from our senses and relay it to the rest of the nervous system. But this is not their only mission. In a new study published in the journal Current Biology, Claire Wyart at Paris Brain Institute, and Christina...

The European Research Council (ERC) has just published the list of the winners of the grants it is about to distribute. This year, two researchers from at the Paris Brain Institute have been distinguished.