Research, science & health

Because the quality of scientific discoveries depends very strongly on the match between research projects and the evolution of technology, Paris Brain Institute offers you, in this new series of articles, to discover the work carried out by its core...

The team led by Prof. Stéphane CHARPIER (Sorbonne Université) at the Brain and Spine Institute is describing live for the first time the neuronal changes during reoxygenation of the brain in anoxia in an experimental in vivo model.

Huntington’s disease, which affects about 6 000 individuals in France, is characterized by the progressive outbreak of motor, behavioral and cognitive disorders. Researchers from Alexis Brice’s team have participated in a collaborative project aiming...

A study conducted at Institut du Cerveau - ICM by Mauricio dos-Santos-Pereira and Patrick Michel together with a partner team in Brazil, identifies a key mechanism by which cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, exerts anti...

Pain is a very subjective sensation. The same condition could be experienced as excruciatingly painful by some people, while others will consider it as barely painful. A study conducted by Leonie Koban, researcher in the team of Philippe Fossati and...

A study conducted by Alberto BACCI’s (CNRS) team at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM showed that a specific type of inhibitory neuron of the cerebral cortex makes a large number of synapses with themselves (autapses). Autaptic self-inhibition is much...

Early biomarkers are needed to identify individuals at high risk of preclinical Alzheimer's disease and to better understand the pathophysiological processes of disease progression. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease EEG changes would be non-invasive...

A team from the department of neurology of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital-APHP and the Institut du Cerveau, led by Prof Emmanuel FLAMAND-ROZE and Dr Aurélie MENERET, showed the positive effect of coffee in dyskinesia caused by a mutation of ADCY5...

A study conducted by Marc Teichmann and Carole Azuar at the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris (France) and at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital shows a particularly marked impairment of moral emotions in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The...

Tics are the prime manifestations of Tourette's syndrome. How do they appear ? Why do they persist ? Yulia Worbe, from Mary Vidailhet's team, and her colleagues, have shown that patients with Tourette's syndrome develop more normal behaviours than...

The Centre for Neuroinformatics is a transverse structure in the Institute, gathering researchers, engineers, and IT people, united to promote excellence in data management, data analysis, and scientific computing across the whole Paris Brain...

Brain plasticity is the dynamic process happening in our brain as we learn through experience, and it varies greatly with age. What are the mechanism behind this? A study conducted by Alberto Bacci’s team at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM discovered...