Team research topics:

The MOBs team aims to investigate the interaction between brain and body and their role in memory processing and emotion through in vivo and ex-vivo approaches coupling behavioral tasks, extracellular electrophysiology, optogenetics and brain-computer interface.

Building on prior research on theta oscillations and hippocampal sharp-waves ripples in memory and sleep, the team showed that false memories can be created during sleep by using a brain-computer interface and real-time detection of spontaneous neuronal reactivation.

Recently the team developed a new axis of research on the influence of brain-body interaction in emotion. The team showed in mice that during fear-induced freezing, the olfactory bulb transmits regular breathing rhythm to the prefrontal cortex, playing a specific role in freezing maintenance. T present research of the team work on the distinction between fear/panic and anxiety, that could lead to efficient translational studies on neuropsychiatric disorders.

  

Main techniques used:

In vivo and ex-vivo approaches, behavioral tasks, extracellular electrophysiology, optogenetics and brain-computer interface.

Address :
ESPCI-CNRS 10 rue Vauquelin 75005 Paris

Team leader :
Karim Benchenane
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