Research, science & health

The Paris Brain Institute, in partnership with the AP-HP, Sorbonne-Université, Medico-University Department of Neurosciences at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, with grant of €400,000 from the FIA Foundation - historical patron of the Institute with a...

The research team led by Prof. Lionel Naccache at the Paris Brain Institute (Sorbonne Université, APHP, INSERM, CNRS) has just published two important studies which concern patients suffering from a lasting disturbance of consciousness (e.g...

MSCopilot, a new multiple sclerosis self-assessment digital solution developed by AdScientiam a startup incubated at iPEPS, has been clinically validated in a clinical trial involving several French hospitals. The results are published in the...

A high tumour mutational burden (hypermutation) is observed in some gliomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; however, the mechanisms by which hypermutation develops and whether it predicts the response to immunotherapy are poorly understood.

Estimating the value of alternative options is a key process in decision-making. Human functional magnetic resonance imaging and monkey electrophysiology studies have identified brain regions, such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and...

Where does our individuality come from? What makes us unique in our behavior? Could it all be in our brain? Prof. Bassem Hassan* and his team discovered a stochastic wiring mechanism of circuits in the fly’s brain at the origin of individual behavior...

Cyril Atkinson-Clément (Institut du Cerveau - ICM) and Yulia Worbe (Sorbonne Université/APHP) in the team “normal and abnormal motor control: movement disorders and experimental therapeutics” at paris brain institute, show that the control of motor...

Paris, February 13, 2020 – The team of Nicolas Renier at Paris Paris Brain Institute has succeeded in reconstructing the entire cerebral vascular system of mice with unprecedented precision. This work has been conducted in collaboration with...

Because the quality of scientific discoveries depends very strongly on the match between research projects and the evolution of technology, Paris Brain Institute offers you, in this new series of articles, to discover the work carried out by its core...

The team led by Prof. Stéphane CHARPIER (Sorbonne Université) at the Brain and Spine Institute is describing live for the first time the neuronal changes during reoxygenation of the brain in anoxia in an experimental in vivo model.

Huntington’s disease, which affects about 6 000 individuals in France, is characterized by the progressive outbreak of motor, behavioral and cognitive disorders. Researchers from Alexis Brice’s team have participated in a collaborative project aiming...

A study conducted at Institut du Cerveau - ICM by Mauricio dos-Santos-Pereira and Patrick Michel together with a partner team in Brazil, identifies a key mechanism by which cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, exerts anti...