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Dream or nightmare, our sleep is often rich in emotions. A study conducted by Jean-Baptiste Maranci (Sorbonne University), Isabelle Arnulf (AP-HP/Sorbonne University) and their collaborators at Paris Brain Institute and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital...

The group of Emmanuelle Volle at Paris Brain Institute and their international collaborators established for the first time a link between real-life creativity, semantic memory structure, and brain functional connectivity. The results, published in...

Gestation leads to a modification of brain circuits and behaviors such as nesting within the animal kingdom. The underlying biological, neural and hormonal mechanisms have been unknown until now. In a new study, the team led by Nicolas Renier (Inserm...

A clinical trial conducted by Prof. Alexandra Durr's team (Sorbonne University.AP-HP) at the Paris Brain Institute and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital AP-HP shows that despite the hopes raised in recent years, riluzole does not improve the clinical or...

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...

Prof. Catherine Lubetzki, winner of the Prize Pasteur-Weizmann / Servier 2021 for her work on myelin regeneration in the treatment of multiple sclerosis

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...

Once again, this year, the researchers at the Paris Brain Institute have met with great success in the generic call for projects of the Agence nationale de la Recherche (ANR, French National Research Agency).

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...