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“ 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...
09.08.2023
Research, science & health
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...
09.04.2023
Research, science & health
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
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...
08.14.2023
Research, science & health
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...
07.14.2023
Research, science & health
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...
06.28.2023
Research, science & health
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...
06.21.2023
Research, science & health
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...
06.19.2023
Research, science & health
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...
06.06.2023
Research, science & health
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
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...
04.14.2023
Research, science & health
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...
03.31.2023
Research, science & health
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We tend to take for granted that the thoughts associated with sleep have a particular quality: we often describe them as elusive, abstract, or marked by a certain strangeness. Yet a study conducted by researchers from the DreamTeam at the Paris Brain...
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The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying creative thinking are still poorly understood. A new study from the FrontLab team at the Paris Brain Institute explores this question from an original angle by examining creativity where it sometimes...
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In an Insight published this Friday, April 17 in The Lancet Neurology, the four partners of the European CURE-ND alliance, including the Institut du Cerveau, present a joint analysis highlighting their shared ambition: to structure an integrated...
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Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying mutations in the DEPDC5...
04.16.2026
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Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, revealed the key stages of vascular development in the brain, from birth through adulthood. Using a 3D digital atlas called...
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