Research, science & health

Jean-Léon Thomas' group (Inserm, Paris Brain institute) just published a 3D mapping of the meningeal lymphatic network and the associated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage, both in mice and in humans. Beyond the identification of highly conserved...

Coming up with a creative idea requires us to draw on all our previous knowledge. But how does this happen in our mind and in our brain? Emmanuelle Volle's group (Inserm) at the Frontlab of the Paris Brain Institute, in collaboration with the...

The team "Motivation, Brain and Behavior", co-directed by Mathias Pessiglione (Inserm) at the Paris Brain Institute, proposes in a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience a new approach to understand how our prefrontal cortex makes decisions.

Thanks to an approach combining behavioral assessment and brain imaging, a study conducted by the Paris Brain Institute's FrontLAB has led to a better characterization of a major symptom of frontotemporal degeneration, disinhibition. These results...

Every day, we call upon a unique capacity of our brain, visual mental imagery, which allows us to visualise images, objects or people 'in our heads'. Based on the recent case of a patient with a specific brain lesion, Paolo Bartolomeo's group (Inserm...

Although Alzheimer's disease is not hereditary in 99% of cases, genetic factors can increase the risk of developing it. The "Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases" team, co-directed by Marie-Claude Potier (CNRS) at the Paris Brain Institute, has...

Brain mapping consists in finding the brain regions associated with different traits, such as diseases, cognitive functions, or behaviours, and is a major field of research in neuroscience. This approach is based on statistical models and is subject...

Covid-19 took us by surprise and the exceptional situation of the first lockdown required great capacities of adaptation, in particular for our brain. A study conducted at the Paris Brain Institute (Inserm/CNRS/Sorbonne University/AP-HP) has just...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, Catalina Obando, Charlotte Rosso (Sorbonne Université, AP-HP) Fabrizio de Vico Fallani (Inria) and their collaborators at the Brain Institute propose a new approach to...

A collaboration between Australian (University of New South Wales and Macquarie University) and French (Paris Brain Institute) researchers has found that variations in the diameter of our pupil reveal the sensory intensity of our mental imagination...

Dyskinesias are rare diseases characterised by sudden, involuntary movements that can affect the whole body. Two years ago, the team of Prof. Flamand-Roze and Dr. Méneret at the Paris Brain Institute and the neurology department of the Pitié...

Products derived from the intestinal microbiota enter the bloodstream and modulate the host's physiological processes, such as immunity, metabolism, and brain function. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur (a research partner of Université Paris Cité...