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PICNIC

neuropsychology and functional neuroimaging

Laurent COHEN
Laurent COHEN

Pr (PU-PH, MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP

Lionel NACCACHE
Lionel NACCACHE

Pr (PU-PH, MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP

Paolo BARTOLOMEO
Paolo BARTOLOMEO

Dr (MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, INSERM

Team presentation

Consciousness, attention, visual perception and language are complex cognitive functions involving different brain areas and neural networks.

The "PICNIC - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging" team is dedicated to the study of cognitive functions developed exclusively or predominantly in human beings. The study of patients is central to his approach. With both healthy subjects and patients, the team employs state-of-the-art behavioural and multimodal brain imaging techniques: anatomical and functional MRI, EEG, MEG, intra-cerebral recordings.
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The main lines of research of the PICNIC team are:

  • Brain Mechanisms of Consciousness, and the Development of Imaging Tools to Assist in the Diagnosis of Consciousness Disorders
  • Brain Mechanisms of Reading and Reading Disorders Resulting from Brain Damage
  • Functions of the visual cortex in blind subjects
  • Brain Mechanisms of Spatial Attention Orientation and Attention Deficit Disorders (Visuo-Spatial Neglect) Resulting from Brain Damage
  • The development of methods to treat these deficits, using transcranial stimulation, rehabilitation techniques and pharmacology.
Main publications

Main publications

Team members

Laurent COHEN
Laurent COHEN

Pr (PU-PH, MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP

Lionel NACCACHE
Lionel NACCACHE

Pr (PU-PH, MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP

Paolo BARTOLOMEO
Paolo BARTOLOMEO

Dr (MD, PhD), Team Leader, PI, INSERM

Sitt Jacobo en photo
Jacobo SITT

MD, PhD, DR2, PI, INSERM

Photo de Benjamin ROHAUT
Benjamin ROHAUT

Project Sponsor, PI, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP

News from the team

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A multimodal approach to better predict recovery in patients with disorders of consciousness
When a patient is admitted to intensive care due to a disorder of consciousness—such as a coma—establishing their neurological prognosis is a crucial yet challenging task. To reduce the uncertainty that precedes the medical decision, a group of ...
05.30.2024 Research, science & health
La construction de l’attention visuelle mise en évidence au niveau neuronal
The construction of visual attention highlighted at the neuronal level
A giant billboard flashes on the side of a country road. Why does it catch our attention more easily than other details in the landscape? At Paris Brain Institute, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Jacobo Sitt, Paolo Bartolomeo, and their colleagues show that ...
03.26.2024 Research, science & health
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Sleep is open to the world: we can respond to verbal stimuli while sleeping
Sleep is not a state in which we are completely isolated from our environment: while we sleep, we are capable of hearing and understanding words. These observations, the result of close collaboration between teams at Paris Brain Institute and the ...
10.12.2023 Research, science & health
Portrait Camille Lakhlifi
Camille Lakhlifi: a successful bet on popularization
On Thursday October 5, Camille Lakhlifi, a Université Paris Cité's PhD student at Paris Brain Institute (CNRS/Inserm/Sorbonne Université) won 1st prize from the jury at the international final of "Ma thèse en 180 secondes", the popular science ...
11.23.2023 Portraits
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Links between attention and conscious perception highlighted in frontoparietal networks
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 ...
09.02.2023 Research, science & health
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Appreciation of humorous scenes is associated with specific electrical activity in the 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 ...
05.19.2023 Research, science & health