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An article published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, resulting from a successful collaboration between Eric FAKRA (PSYR2 CRNL) with Magali COMTE, and the Adult Psychiatry Unit of the Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier in Rennes.

An unpublished issue of «The Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body», presented by Adriana Karembeu and Michel Cymes and broadcast on France 2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 at 21pm, tries to unravel the mysteries of taste and smell, with Moustafa Bensafi, Marylou Mantel, Camille Ferdenzi and Stéphane Richard (NEUROPOP CRNL).

An new article of MEMO CRNL in Human Brain Mapping

Takács
A, Kóbor A, Kardos Z, et al. Neurophysiological and functional neuroanatomical coding of statistical and deterministic rule information during sequence learning. Hum Brain Mapp. 2021;1–20.

https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25427

Sylvie Mazoyer and Christelle Daudé, your equality correspondents, offer you a short video (1'28") which summarises their missions for the Rhône Alpes delegation of CNRS.

The work of Anne Auguste is part of a project led by Alexandra Veyrac CMO CRNL on the role of new neurons in memory processes.



The observatory has produced a video of her thesis work: Anne Auguste | Observatoire B2V des Mémoires (observatoireb2vdesmemoires.fr)



If, like her, you want to do a thesis on memory, you have until 20 May to apply on the site!

https://www.observatoireb2vdesmemoires.fr/en/en-action/bourse-doctorale-candidature

A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space

A book edited by Frédérique de Vignemont, Andrea Serino, Hong Yu Wong, and Alessandro Farnè (IMPACT CRNL), Oxford University Press - Academic, April 1st, 2021, 352 pages, ISBN: 9780198851738.

An article of MEMO CRNL in Neuropsychologia

Kóbor A, Kardos Z, Horváth K, Janacsek K, Takács A, Csépe V, Nemeth D. Implicit anticipation of probabilistic regularities: Larger CNV emerges for unpredictable events. Neuropsychologia, Volume 156, 18 June 2021, 107826.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107826

Top 100 in Neuroscience is a collection of Scientific Reports.

This collection highlights their most downloaded neuroscience papers published in 2020. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.

In the collection of 31 March 2021, the publication of MEMO CRNL about subjective sleep has the rank 34 of 1750 !

"As soon as you have to do an exercise in a limited time, your performance drops. In order not to collapse, we need to know the traps that our brain sets for us in the perception of time. "explains Jean-Philippe LACHAUX (EDUWELL CRNL) in the April 2021 issue of Cerveau & Psycho.

A March-April 2021 Collector's Issue of Cerveau et Psycho in which Antoine LUTZ (EDUWELL CRNL) as well as Christophe ANDRE, Matthieu RICARD and Rébecca BEGUE-SHANKLAND discuss the Powers of Meditation.

To understand why you feel what you feel, and where the emotions you feel come from.

In this five-part mini-series, louiemedia sought to understand what makes us sensory beings.

In this second episode, journalist Brune Bottero interviewed Moustafa Bensafi (NEUROPOP CRNL), a specialist in olfactory perception.

The PsyR² CRNL team published in February 2021 in the journal npj Schizophrenia the results of a study conducted at the CH le Vinatier on the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

On Monday, February 22, 2021, the CNRS signed the Transparency Charter on the use of animals for scientific and regulatory purposes in France.

By being one of the 30 signatories, the CNRS is thus committed to better inform the general public about the reasons and developments of the use of animals for scientific purposes.

For more information do not hesitate to consult the article Use of animals: the CNRS signs a transparency charter.

The CNRS awarded Paul-Antoine Libourel, Research Engineer and Project Leader in instrumentation and data analysis related to sleep within the SLEEP team of the CRNL, CNRS Crystal medal which recognizes the quality and originality of his work.

An article of Dezso NEMETH (MEMO CRNL) and colleagues, recently published in Child Neuropsychology.

An issue published by the Wiley group which, as of January 2021, salutes Women's Rights.

It includes an article by Gaëlle LEROUX (Methodological Support for Imaging Projects, CRNL Common Service) and her colleagues: "Functional brain connectivity changes across the human life span: From fetal development to old age".

The CRNL mobilizes against Covid-19 outbreak with new research

The CRNL teams have mobilized against Covid-19 around 4 major research themes: olfaction, sleep, mental health and pain. New studies have emerged to understand the neurobiological mechanisms of the virus but also the consequences of containment.

© Inserm / Camille Henry

Manon DIRHEIMER, Designated Veterinarian, was recruited by Inserm in 2017. She is in charge of several animal facilities, today those of the CRNL but also those of the SBRI, the P4 and the PBES. She works with many species: fish, mice, rats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, ferrets, cats and monkeys. And helps you on a daily basis. Discover the career path of this passionate woman!

An article by Jean-Philippe LACHAUX (EDUWELL CRNL) published in the journal Cerveau & Psycho on 12 February, 2021 section L'école des cerveaux.

An article of Maëllie Midroit* and Laura Chalençon* under the direction of Nathalie Mandairon, NEUROPOP CRNL, in Current Biology.

Why are we so attracted to some odorants? A study published in the journal Current Biology shows that pleasant odorants can act as rewards on our brains. This specific property of odorants seems to be due to a special connection between two brain regions, the olfactory bulb, which deals with odor pleasantness, and the olfactory tubercle, a key structure of the reward system. The activation of this network allows dopamine release, as do natural beneficial stimuli such as food or artificial stimuli such as drugs. These results obtained in mice have been confirmed in humans, showing that this process is conserved between species.

© Nathalie Mandairon & Marc Thevenet

"We only use 10% of our brain's capacities", "To each his own learning style", "Everything is decided before the age of 3"... We think we know a lot about how our brain works. What if these preconceived ideas don't make sense?

Cortex mag, February 9, 2021, Benoit de la Fonchais, Clara Saleri (IMPACT CRNL) et Yves Rossetti (TRAJECTOIRE CRNL)

Body size exaggeration is common in the animal kingdom, with many species having evolved adaptations to look or sound BIG in order to threaten competitors or attract mates. But to what extent does such deception actually fool listeners?
To answer this age-old question, researchers Kasia Pisanski and David Reby (ENES CRNL) examined the perception of deceptive vocal signals of body size in humans. “By studying deception in our own species”, explains Prof. Reby, “we can answer many important questions about deceptive signalling that are difficult to tackle in studies with non-human animals”.