Research, science & health

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...

A study published in the journal Neurology, conducted by Dario Saracino, Isabelle Le Ber (AP-HP), and their collaborators, highlights the importance of testing for mutations in a specific gene, the progranulin gene (GRN), in order to distinguish...

A study conducted by Julien Boetto and Franck Bielle (Sorbonne University. AP-HP) of the " Genetics and Development of Nervous System Tumours" team at the Paris Brain Institute highlights the potential of GAB1 as a new biomarker for Hedgehog...

Violetta ZUJOVIC, INSERM researcher and Team Leader and Fabrizio De VICO FALLANI, INRIA researcher at the Paris Brain Institute just published in Network Neuroscience. Identifying the nodes able to drive the state of a network is crucial to...

Primary orthostatic tremor (POT) is a rare and poorly understood neurological disorder. It presents as a very rapid tremor (not visible to the naked eye) of the legs and trunk, causing a feeling of instability and fear of falling. The symptoms appear...