Research, science & health

What if a few minutes of sleep could act as a trigger for creativity? This is what a study conducted by researchers from Inserm and Sorbonne University at the Paris Brain Institute and the sleep pathology department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital...

A rare and tragic consequence of epilepsy is Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), which occurs after a seizure. The mechanisms involved, whether respiratory, cardiac or cerebral, are not yet fully understood. However, this risk is very low...

A study conducted by Renaud Jardri, Professor at the University of Lille and child psychiatrist at the University Hospital of Lille (Inserm Unit U-1172, University of Lille, University Hospital of Lille - Lille Neuroscience & Cognition), Dr Philippe...

What if a worm allowed a quantum leap in research on prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? A recent study by Nicolas Bizat (University of Paris) and Stéphane Haïk (Inserm) at the Paris Brain Institute, published in the journal Brain...

What if, in order to understand the social intelligence of animals, including humans, we had to study the brain at the group level and not only at the individual level? This is a perspective put forward by Julia Sliwa, a CNRS researcher at the Paris...

We engage in checking behaviours on a daily basis. In certain pathologies such as OCD, these behaviours can be exacerbated and greatly disturb the quality of life of patients. A study conducted by Axel Baptista (AP-HP/Sorbonne University), Maxime...

Apathy, a pathological absence of motivation and emotion, is a common symptom of many neurological and psychiatric diseases, such as dementia or depression. The ECOCAPTURE@HOME program, developed by researchers and clinicians at the Paris Brain...

When we listen to a story being told, our attention might be reflected in the inter-subject synchronisation of our heart rate. This is shown by a study carried by Pauline Perez (co-first author) from Jacobo Sitt's group (Inserm) in the "PICNIC -...

Teams from the Paris Brain Institute and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital AP-HP, coordinated by Dr Matthieu Peyre and Prof Michel Kalamarides, have studied the presence of mutations in the PIK3CA gene in cavernomas. This work is published in the New...

A study conducted by Anne Desmazières, Rémi Ronzano and Thomas Roux in Catherine Lubetzki’s team at Paris Brain Institute, shows for the first time a new interaction between neurons and microglia, immune cells present in the brain. This hitherto...

Several studies by Prof. Bruno Stankoff's team "Remyelination in multiple sclerosis: from biology to clinical translation", highlight new mechanisms of brain inflammation in multiple sclerosis, thanks to new imaging tools based on the combination of...