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To adapt to the small and large events that give the world its ever-changing character, we use an essential ability: cognitive flexibility. It enables us to improvise in the event of disruptions on our morning commute, to cope with the unexpected...

Spinocerebellar ataxias are a very heterogeneous group of inherited diseases associated with degeneration of the cerebellum – a region at the back of the skull that plays an essential role in motor control. Patients have gait and balance disorders...

What if Alzheimer’s disease left its mark on the embryo? Khadijeh Shabani and her colleagues from the “Brain Development” team led by Bassem Hassan (Inserm) at Paris Brain Institute show that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) has a specific...

Thanks to the collaboration between teams from the AP-HP, the MedTech METAFORA biosystems, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, Cerba Healthcare, and more than 30 investigating centers coordinated by Prof. Fanny Mochel at Paris Brain...

Does humor appreciation have a brain signature? In a new study published in Neuropsychologia, Vadim Axelrod at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with Lionel Naccache (Sorbonne University, AP-HP) at Paris Brain Institute, decrypts the...

Bassem Hassan is the Paris Brain Institute’s Scientific Director and Director of Core Facilities

Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with different characters? To answer this question, Laurent Cohen...

Vanessa Batista Brochard is CRA coordinator at the Neuroscience Clinical Investigation Center (Neuroscience CIC) at the Pitié- Salpêtrière Hospital headed by Dr Céline LOUAPRE and located within Paris Brain Institute.

Unlike classic epileptic seizures that last only a few seconds or minutes, " status epilepticus" refers to a state of neuronal hyperactivity in the cerebral cortex that persists for several hours or days. When this condition occurs without a readily...

The application campaign for the iMIND - International Master in Neurodegenerative Diseases - Master 2 programme, will be open from March 28th to June 1st!

No treatment currently exists that can stop the silent progression of multiple sclerosis, and many promising drugs have proved ineffective in clinical trials. To reduce this failure rate and better predict the potential of candidate molecules...

Glioblastomas are the most common malignant tumors of the adult brain. They resist conventional treatment, including surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Despite thisarmamentarium, glioblastomas inexorably recur. In a new study...