Press Room
Resources dedicated to journalists and media professionals
The PR department responds to all media requests for information on scientific, medical, technological and entrepreneurial activities at Paris Brain Institute.
It disseminates new results from research teams and connects journalists to a relevant expert to comment on a current issue.
Feel free to contact our press officer to help you develop a topic that relies on state-of-the-art knowledge in neuroscience, neurology or psychiatry.
Press contact
Marie Simon
Email
:
presse@icm-institute.org
Our press documents
An international study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity shows that patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) have a unique biology, different from those who respond to standard therapies. More than 5,000 genes were found to behave...
11.03.2025
Research, science & health
The anomalies underlying neurodegenerative diseases may arise during development—decades before the first symptoms appear. This hypothesis is gaining traction thanks to a new study published in Nature Communications. According to researchers from the...
10.20.2025
Research, science & health
Paris Brain Institute announces Serge Weinberg’s election as President of its Board of Directors. He succeeds Gérard Saillant, our Founding President, who becomes Honorary President after fifteen years of dedicated service to the Institute.
10.16.2025
Institutional
This year, NeurAL, Paris Brain Institute’s start-up studio, has selected a project by the researcher Brahim Nait Oumesmar that seeks to develop a remyelinating treatment for multiple sclerosis. The winner will benefit from personalized support and...
10.15.2025
Research applications
The Brain Fund II, a private equity fund managed by Impact Partners, aims to provide Paris Brain Institute with permanent financial resources to support the projects of research teams.
08.28.2025
Support
Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as autobiographical hypermnesia, or hyperthymesia. This...
08.28.2025
Research, science & health
In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from 37 scientific institutions—including Paris Brain Institute—unveil the DREAM database: an ambitious project designed to centralize, share, and standardize data from research on sleep...
08.14.2025
Research, science & health
First described 60 years ago, chronic myoclonus following cerebral anoxia is now known as Lance-Adams syndrome. This is a severe disorder whose mechanisms were, until now, poorly understood. Geoffroy Vellieux, Vincent Navarro, and their colleagues at...
06.16.2025
Research, science & health
A Franco-German international research team has identified two new genes that play a role in the onset of intellectual development disorders (IDD), also known as intellectual disabilities. Researchers have successfully developed two new types of test...
06.11.2025
Research, science & health
Thanks to 7T fMRI, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and NeuroSpin, the CEA's neuroimaging centre, are exploring the neural substrate of visual imagery at very high resolution for the first time. Their results, publiés [i] in Cortex, pave the...
06.06.2025
Research, science & health
On the occasion of the Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which took place on 10 and 11 February 2025 in Paris, France welcomed representatives of some 100 countries, including many heads of state, business leaders, researchers and...
02.14.2025
Research, science & health
Huntington's disease, a rare hereditary neurological disorder, is associated with an energy deficit that precedes the onset of symptoms and is closely linked to their progression. At Paris Brain Institute, Fanny Mochel and her colleagues are testing...
02.11.2025
Research, science & health
Our useful documents
All
No results found
News that might interest you
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains poorly understood from a biological perspective. An international study led by scientists from the Paris Brain Institute and Monash University in Australia suggests that some symptoms may be...
03.17.2026
Research, science & health
Can brain imaging reveal whether a person is affected by depression? This question has driven research for many years. Changes in brain structure have indeed been observed in patients with depression, suggesting that structural MRI might one day help...
03.12.2026
Research, science & health
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way scientists explore the human brain. To accelerate breakthroughs, the Paris Brain Institute is launching, after its Call for Junior Group Leaders, a Call for Expression of Interest for Senior or...
03.09.2026
Institutional
In order to strengthen the strategic Franco-Indian partnership, which is supported at the very highest level by both the French and Indian authorities, a delegation from Paris Brain Institute went to New Delhi from the 16th to the 20th of February...
03.24.2026
Institutional
Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are eligible for the procedure. For these individuals...
03.06.2026
Research, science & health
Violetta Zujovic is team leader and scientific manager of the facility. Her research focuses on the immune system’s role in myelin repair, which is a key factor in neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis and certain leukodystrophies. With...
03.04.2026
Portraits