Abstract: A method for automatically detecting elements of interest in electrophysiological signals includes: delivering electrophysiological signals; producing a whitened time-frequency representation of the electrophysiological signals; setting a threshold; applying this threshold to the whitened time-frequency representation; and, in the whitened time-frequency representation, detecting local maxima that are higher than or equal to the applied threshold.

Abstract: The method for inferring epileptogenicity of a brain region not observed as recruited or not observed as not recruited, in a seizure activity of an epileptic patient brain, includes: providing a computerized model modelling various regions of a primate brain and connectivity between the regions; providing the computerized model with a model able to reproduce an epileptic seizure dynamic in the primate brain; providing structural data of the epileptic patient brain and personalizing the computerized model using the structural data to obtain a virtual epileptic patient (VEP) brain model; translating a state-space representation of the VEP brain model into a probabilistic programming language (PPL) using probabilistic state transitions to obtain a probabilistic virtual epileptic patient brain model (BVEP); and acquiring electro- or magneto-encephalographic data of the patient brain and fitting the probabilistic VEP brain model against the data to infer the epileptogenicity of the brain region that is not observe

Abstract: The method of optimizing an intracranial implantation scheme of a set of electroencephalographic electrodes for identification of an epileptogenic zone in an epileptic patient’s brain includes: - providing a model of the epileptogenic zone and a model of the propagation of an epileptic discharge from the epileptic zone to a propagation zone, and loading the models in a computerized platform personalized according to the patient’s brain; - providing at least one hypothesis of the localization of the epileptogenic zone in the patient brain; - for the at least hypothesis of the localization of the epileptogenic zone, simulating, in the personalized computerized patient’s brain, epileptic seizures, and determining, for the hypothesis and epileptic seizures, a network of propagation zones; - for a plurality of intracranial implantation schemes of the electroencephalographic electrodes, obtaining, using the personalized computerized patient’s brain, simulated electroencephalographic signals activity to be measured

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus and a system for testing the cognitive ability of a rodent, comprising a testing chamber, a retarding zone connected to the entrance chamber and including at least one obstacle configured to slow down the rodent's movement to the entrance chamber, and an optional transfer chamber connected to the entrance chamber via the retarding zone for transfer of the rodent to and from an area external to the apparatus. The testing chamber comprises an entrance chamber, a plurality of corridors each connected to the entrance chamber via a corridor's first end portion, and at least one odor diffuser for diffusing odors in the plurality of corridors.

Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for transporting and controlling light beams for endo-microscopic imaging without a lens on the distal side comprising a single-mode optical fibre bundle (40) on the distal side, wherein each single-mode optical fibre is intended to receive an elementary light source and to emit a light beam at a distal end; a single-mode optical fibre section (50) arranged at the distal end of the optical fibre bundle and intended to receive the light beams emitted by the single-mode optical fibres of the optical fibre bundle; an optical phase control device arranged on the side of the proximal end of the single-mode optical fibres.

Abstract: The method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object or for modifying the surface state of a preformed object by local polymerisation of monomers or oligomers, the polymerisation being initiated by mono-photon or multi-photon absorption in an area to be polymerised, includes: —introducing into a vessel with light-transparent walls a reaction medium comprising polymerisable monomers or oligomers, a polymerisation inhibitor, an indicator of the amount of the inhibitor and a photochemical polymerisation initiator; —initiating the polymerisation of the monomers or oligomers; —indicating the amount of inhibitor present in the reaction medium; —controlling the amount of light emitted by the irradiation system relative to the amount of inhibitor indicated by the indicator; and —switching to a following zone to be polymerised by moving the object and/or the focused light beam.

Abstract: The method for determining an onset time and an excitability of a brain region that is not observed as recruited or not recruited in a seizure activity of an epileptic patient brain includes: providing a dynamical model of a propagation of an epileptic seizure in the brain networks; providing a statistical model which defines the probability of generating sets of observations of the state of the brain networks by said dynamical model; training the dynamical model of the propagation of an epileptic seizure using the statistical model and the data set of observations of the training cohort; and inverting the trained dynamical model and inferring the onset time and excitability of a third region from the onset time that is observed for the first and second regions using the statistical model.

Abstract: The method of identifying a potentially surgically operable target zone in an epileptic patient's brain includes: providing a computerized platform modelling various zones of a primate brain and connectivity between said zones; providing a model of an epileptogenic zone and a model of the propagation of an epileptic discharge from an epileptic zone to a propagation zone; obtaining a patient's personalized computerized platform; deriving the potential target zones based on modularity analysis; evaluating the target zones' effectiveness by simulating epileptic seizures propagation in the personalized patient's computerized platform; evaluating the target zones' safety by simulating spatiotemporal brain activation patterns in a defined state condition and comparing the simulated spatiotemporal brain activation patterns obtained before removal of the target zone with the spatiotemporal brain activation patterns obtained after removal of the target zone; identifying the target zones which satisfy both effectivenes

Abstract: The invention relates to modulating epileptogenicity in a brain of an epileptic patient. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: providing a virtual brain; providing a model of an epileptogenic and of a propagation zones and loading said models in the virtual brain to create a virtual epileptic brain; acquiring data of the brain of the epileptic patient; identifying, in said data, a location of at least one possible epileptogenic zone; fitting the virtual epileptic brain against the data acquired from the epileptic patient and parametrizing said at least one possible epileptogenic zone in the virtual epileptic brain as an epileptogenic zone; and simulating, within the virtual epileptic brain, the effect of a network modulation mimicking a clinical intervention of the brain of the patient.

Abstract: The method of modulating epileptogenicity in a brain of an epileptic patient includes: providing a virtual brain; providing a model of an epileptogenic and of a propagation zones and loading the model in the virtual brain to create a virtual epileptic brain; acquiring data of the brain of the epileptic patient; identifying, in the data, a location of at least one possible epileptogenic zone; fitting the virtual epileptic brain against the data acquired from the epileptic patient and parametrizing the at least one possible epileptogenic zone in the virtual epileptic brain as an epileptogenic zone; and simulating, within the virtual epileptic brain, the effect of a network modulation mimicking a clinical intervention of the brain of the patient.

Abstract: The invention relates to an in vitro or ex vivo method for differentially diagnosing a bipolar disorder and a major depressive disorder in a human patient in a need thereof presenting depressive symptoms, comprising the following steps: providing a biological sample from said patient; determining, from said biological sample, the abundance of at least one of the following cytokines TNF-?, IFN-?, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p40, IL-15, IL-16, IL-17A and IL-27; and diagnosing a bipolar disorder or a major depressive disorder from the determination of the abundance of the at least one of the following cytokines TNF-?, IFN-?, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p40, IL-15, IL-16, IL-17A and IL-27.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for diagnosing a cancer in a mammal in a need thereof. The method comprises the following steps: collecting a biological sample from said mammal; determining, from said biological sample, if the ADAMTSL5 gene is overexpressed; diagnosing a cancer from the determination of the overexpression of said gene. It also relates to a kit for determining an overexpression of the ADAMTSL5 gene in a biological sample obtained from a mammal, to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an agent targeting ADAMTSL5 or the ADAMTSL5 pathway as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in the treatment of a cancer, and to a use of an ADAMTSL5 mRNA or protein as a biomarker of cancer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material for use as a pad in high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging instrument, comprising at least one polar solvent having a melting point of 14° C. to 50° C., a dispersant and a dielectric charge. The invention relates also to a pad used in field of high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging made of at least such a material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modulator of small conductance calcium activated K+ channels of the vestibular nuclei cells for use in the treatment of a lesional vestibular disorder in a patient in need thereof, and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such modulator, for such a use.

Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device for transporting and controlling light beams for endo-microscopic imaging without a lens on the distal side comprising a single-mode optical fibre bundle (40) on the distal side, wherein each single-mode optical fibre is intended to receive an elementary light source and to emit a light beam at a distal end; a single-mode optical fibre section (50) arranged at the distal end of the optical fibre bundle and intended to receive the light beams emitted by the single-mode optical fibres of the optical fibre bundle; an optical phase control device arranged on the side of the proximal end of the single-mode optical fibres.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatic and continuous measurement of a sedation state of a patient in an intensive care unit. The method according to the invention comprises the following steps: providing signals representative of the condition of the patient, said signals comprising cardio-circulatory signals, signals representative of the respiratory activity and signals representative of the motor activity of the patient; and determining a global index representative of the sedation state of the patient.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for diagnosing a pathology in a mammal in need thereof. The method according to the invention comprises the following steps: collecting a blood, blood plasma or blood serum sample from said mammal, said biological sample comprising a protein mixture; obtaining an optical thermal denaturation profile of said biological sample; comparing said optical thermal denaturation profile of said biological sample with an optical thermal denaturation reference profile; and diagnosing the pathology.

Abstract: The invention relates to modulating epileptogenicity in a brain of an epileptic patient. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: providing a virtual brain; providing a model of an epileptogenic and of a propagation zones and loading said models in the virtual brain to create a virtual epileptic brain; acquiring data of the brain of the epileptic patient; identifying, in said data, a location of at least one possible epileptogenic zone; fitting the virtual epileptic brain against the data acquired from the epileptic patient and parametrizing said at least one possible epileptogenic zone in the virtual epileptic brain as an epileptogenic zone; and simulating, within the virtual epileptic brain, the effect of a network modulation mimicking a clinical intervention of the brain of the patient.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically detecting elements of interest in electrophysiological signals, and to a detector for implementing such a method. The method according to the invention comprises steps in which: electrophysiological signals are delivered; a whitened time-frequency representation of said electrophysiological signals is produced; a threshold is set; this threshold is applied to the whitened time-frequency representation; and, in the whitened time-frequency representation, local maxima that are higher than or equal to the applied threshold are detected.