A team from GHU Paris and SHFJ has used brain MRI to study the integrity of the locus coeruleus and nucleus basalis of Meynert in patients with early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) and fronto-temporal dementia (FTD). Both structures are altered in early AD, LATE and probably FTD, making these neuromodulatory areas potential therapeutic targets

A study conducted by NeuroSpin researchers reveals abnormalities in functional brain connectivity in the sub-nucleus region of the amygdala (emotion center), in patients with bipolar disorder. These anomalies, which depend on whether the patient is depressed or manic, are potential biomarkers of interest.

A NeuroSpin team analyzed the MEG response of volunteers exposed to auditory sequences organized in network. Finding that participants' brain activity was sensitive to the structure of the network, it concluded that learning the structure of auditory sequences involves a single cognitive process, associative learning.

A collaborative study led by NeuroSpin researchers analyzed anatomical MRI images of 662 young subjects from the Healthy Brain Network cohort, to map different features of cognitive function linked to cerebellar structure. It shows that there is a complex association between key cognitive functions and particular lobules of the cerebellum.

​The CEA is revealing a series of in vivo human brain images acquired with the Iseult MRI machine and its unmatched 11.7 teslas magnetic field strength. This success is the fruit of more than 20 years of R&D as part of the Iseult project, with one pillar goal being to design and build the world’s most powerful MRI machine. Its ambition is to study healthy and diseased human brains with an unprecedented resolution, allowing us to discover new details relating to the brain’s anatomy, connections, and activity.