The department « Cognitive and Network Neuroscience » (CNN) seeks to decipher neural bases of behavior and cognition, as well as their alterations in neuropathologies. CNN gathers research teams that use different animal models, in the field or in the lab, to study fundamental behaviors and cognitive functions, such as communication, decision-making, learning and memory, as well as their underlying mechanisms at the cellular and network levels.
Direction : Isabelle CHARRIERAcoustic Communications
Direction : Glenn DALLERACAstrocytes and Cognition
Direction : Cyrille VAILLENDCognition, Plasticity & Neuropathologies
Direction : Jean-René MARTINFunctional Brain Imaging & Behavior
Direction : Valérie DOYEREMemory, Emotion & Time
Direction : François ROUYERMolecular Genetics of Circadian Rhythms
Direction : Tihana JOVANICNeural Circuits & Behavior
Direction : Sylvie GRANONNeurobiology of Decision Making
Our Department « Development, Evolution, and Cell Signaling » (DECS) studies cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation, maintenance, regeneration and function of the nervous system, and how they are shaped by evolution.
Direction : Philippe VERNIERDevelopment & Evolution of Neurotransmisson (DEN)
Direction : Sylvie RETAUXDevelopment & Evolution of the Forebrain
Direction : Sophie CREUZETDevelopment & Evolution of the Neural Crest (DENC)
Direction : Mohammed TAOUISMolecular Neuroendocrinology of Food Intake
Direction : Daniel VASILIAUSKASNeurogenetics of Drosophila
Direction : Jean-Pierre LEVRAUDNeuroInfection & Immunity
Direction : Martial RUATSignal Transduction & Developmental Neuropharmacology
Direction : Muriel PERRONStem Cells & Neurogenesis in the Retina (SCaNR)
The department « Integrative & Computational Neuroscience » (ICN) is engaged in an interdisciplinary and multi-scale study of the brain to identify computational principles and neurophysiological mechanisms in thalamo-cortical networks, governing the emergence of high-level brain functions, like perception and learning. ICN is composed of six research teams collectively studying the synaptic and neuronal mechanisms of cortical and subcortical sensory processing and perception, sensori-motor integration and dynamics of internally-generated brain states (e.g. wakefulness, sleep).
Direction : Alain DESTEXHEComputational Neuroscience
Direction : Thierry BALHomeostasis, Perception and States (HOPES)
Direction : Catherine DEL NEGRO & Jean-Marc EDELINENeural Code & Auditory Perception
Direction : Andrew DAVISONNeuroinformatics
Direction : Daniel SHULZSensori-motor Integration & Plasticity
INERNATIONAL ANTENNAE
Two international antennae:

The European Institute of Theoretical Neurosciences (EITN, dir. Alain Destexhe) is in the framework of the Human Brain Project, to attract high profile researchers and foster inetrdisciplinary neuroscience research, associated to the

French Node of the Internationational Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF, dir. Andrew Davison and Jean-Baptiste Poline, Neurospin-I2BM-CEA).
These two international antennae are attached to and administered by ICN.