How do we explore our knowledge to be creative?
Coming up with a creative idea requires us to draw on all our previous knowledge. But how does this happen in our mind and in our brain? Emmanuelle Volle's group (Inserm) at the Frontlab of the Paris Brain Institute, in collaboration with the...
06.29.2022
Research, science & health
Decision-making: a new distribution of tasks in our prefrontal cortex?
The team "Motivation, Brain and Behavior", co-directed by Mathias Pessiglione (Inserm) at the Paris Brain Institute, proposes in a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience a new approach to understand how our prefrontal cortex makes decisions.
06.23.2022
Research, science & health
A better characterization of disinhibition in frontotemporal degeneration
Thanks to an approach combining behavioral assessment and brain imaging, a study conducted by the Paris Brain Institute's FrontLAB has led to a better characterization of a major symptom of frontotemporal degeneration, disinhibition. These results...
06.20.2022
Research, science & health
Visual mental imagery: a patient case suggests a new key brain network
Every day, we call upon a unique capacity of our brain, visual mental imagery, which allows us to visualise images, objects or people 'in our heads'. Based on the recent case of a patient with a specific brain lesion, Paolo Bartolomeo's group (Inserm...
06.09.2022
Research, science & health
Claire Wyart receives the Richard Lounsbery 2022 Prize for her work
The Richard Lounsbery Prize 2022, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences and the American National Academy of Sciences (NAS), has been awarded to Claire Wyart (Inserm), head of the "Spinal Sensory Signaling" team at the Pris Brain Institute, for...
06.08.2022
Institutional
A new statistical method for improved brain mapping
Brain mapping consists in finding the brain regions associated with different traits, such as diseases, cognitive functions, or behaviours, and is a major field of research in neuroscience. This approach is based on statistical models and is subject...
05.23.2022
Research, science & health
Paris Brain Institute announces a new research collaboration with Pfizer Inc.
Paris Brain Institute announces a new research collaboration with Pfizer Inc. aimed at advancing the understanding of rare neurodegenerative diseases
05.16.2022
Institutional
Conference Series: Conversations between the mind and body
The mind, body and world interact in many fascinating ways. For example our emotions and thoughts influence bodily processes such as digestion, heart function and breathing. In turn, bodily processes such as inflammation and disease also influence...
05.11.2022
Events
How the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic changed our creativity
Covid-19 took us by surprise and the exceptional situation of the first lockdown required great capacities of adaptation, in particular for our brain. A study conducted at the Paris Brain Institute (Inserm/CNRS/Sorbonne University/AP-HP) has just...
05.10.2022
Research, science & health
A new mathematical model of brain connectivity after stroke
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, Catalina Obando, Charlotte Rosso (Sorbonne Université, AP-HP) Fabrizio de Vico Fallani (Inria) and their collaborators at the Brain Institute propose a new approach to...
04.22.2022
Research, science & health
Our pupil reveals elements of our imagination
A collaboration between Australian (University of New South Wales and Macquarie University) and French (Paris Brain Institute) researchers has found that variations in the diameter of our pupil reveal the sensory intensity of our mental imagination...
04.20.2022
Research, science & health
Coffee to treat a form of dyskinesia
Dyskinesias are rare diseases characterised by sudden, involuntary movements that can affect the whole body. Two years ago, the team of Prof. Flamand-Roze and Dr. Méneret at the Paris Brain Institute and the neurology department of the Pitié...
04.19.2022
Research, science & health