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Previous page Philippe FOSSATI MD, PhD, PU-PH, Sorbonne université, AP-HP Team "Control- Interoception – Attention"

Biography

Philippe Fossati is co-leader of the Social and Affective Neuroscience team at the ICM. He is full professor of Psychiatry at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. He received a MD in 1993 and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2001. He is scientific editor of the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. He is member of the French Society of Biological Psychiatry and of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Brain Imaging Network.

Research work

The Social and Affective Neuroscience (SAN) team gathers together three PIs with complementary expertise in affective neuroscience, social neuroscience, and psychiatry, with the aim of understanding the neural mechanisms by which social processes activate and regulate the emotional brain.

Publications

1. Linneweber GA, Andriatsilavo M, Bias Dutta S, Bengochea M, Hellbruegge L, Liu G, EjsmontRK, Straw AD, Wernet M, Hiesinger PR, Hassan BA. A neurodevelopmental origin of behavioral individuality in the Drosophila visual system. Science. 2020. 367(6482):1112-1119.
2. Quan XJ, Yuan L, Tiberi L, Claeys A, De Geest N, et al. Post-translational Control of the Temporal Dynamics of Transcription Factor Activity Regulates Neurogenesis. Cell. 2016. 164(3):460-75.
3. Langen M, Koch M, Yan J, De Geest N, Erfurth ML, et al. Mutual inhibition among postmitotic neurons regulates robustness of brain wiring in Drosophila. Elife. 2013. 2:e00337.
4. Choi CM, Vilain S, Langen M, Van Kelst S, De Geest N, et al. Conditional mutagenesis in Drosophila. Science. 2009. 324(5923):54.
5. Morales J, Hiesinger PR, Schroeder AJ, Kume K, Verstreken P, et al. Drosophila fragile X protein, DFXR, regulates neuronal morphology and function in the brain. Neuron. 2002. 34(6):961-72.