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In recent years, interest in psychedelics and their possible benefit in treating psychiatric illnesses has been revived. Expectations are high, especially in obsessive-compulsive disorder, where patients’ therapeutic options are still limited. At...

Thanks to the generous support of the Marie-Françoise Parayre Chaufour Foundation, Paris Brain Institute has launched an ambitious program to encourage international scientific innovation.

For the past nine years, Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe (CMNE) and La Française Asset Managers (AM) have been supporting Paris Brain Institute through a creative and concerted patronage policy.

“ Think of a white sandy beach on a paradise island. Can you see it?” The ability to visualize a place, object, or place on request varies significantly between individuals. But some people cannot conjure up mental images at all: this trait is known...

The European Research Council (ERC) has just published the list of recipients of “Starting grants” funding for 2023. The three candidates from Paris Brain Institute who applied to this highly competitive call for proposals have been awarded this...

Paris, September 4th, 2023. Walking is a complex mechanism involving both automatic processes and conscious control. Its dysfunction can have multiple, sometimes extremely subtle causes, within the motor cortex, brain stem, spinal cord, or muscles...

Is paying attention to the things around us necessary to perceive them? This seemingly simple question is far from having a consensual answer. To decide between the various existing hypotheses, Jianghao Liu and his colleagues at Paris Brain Institute...

The more we like our ideas, the faster we give them shape. But to be creative, you have to have a penchant for ideas that are out of the ordinary… This is what Alizée Lopez-Persem and Emmanuelle Volle, Inserm researchers at Paris Brain Institute...

As part of the call for the group leader position launched in spring 2021, two young researchers have been selected from 260 to develop their own research teams within the Institute. These two teams will develop completely new scientific and...

Assessing a number of elements, whether individuals in a group, twigs in a nest, or fruit on a branch, is an essential skill in many animals. But the neural circuits on which it is based are still poorly understood. To remedy this lack of knowledge...

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...