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Previous page Paolo BARTOLOMEO MD, PhD, DR2, INSERM Team “Physiological investigation of clinically normal and impaired cognition” http://marsicanus.free.fr/ https://twitter.com/PaoloBartolome0

Biography

Paolo Bartolomeo, who holds a PhD and a thesis, was trained as a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist. He is the principal scientist of the research team studying the cognitive neuroscience of attention at the Paris Brain Institute, within the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He is also professor of neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). Using behavioral, neuroimaging and neurostimulation methods, Paolo Bartolomeo has developed high-impact work revealing the structural and functional neuroanatomy of attentional functions in healthy individuals and in patients with brain damage.

Research work

Attention allows us to explore our environment. Many patients with a lesion in the right hemisphere of the brain find themselves living in a halved world, because they suffer from neglect (inattention) for the left side of space. Neglect patients are unaware of the left half of their environment, and have a poor functional outcome. To understand the brain mechanisms of attention and awareness, we study these patients as well as healthy participants. Our research employs several advanced methods, including neurophysiological (intracerebral recordings and MEG), neuroanatomical (high resolution MRI) and behavioral techniques (manual response times and eye-tracking). The long-term goal of our research is to bridge the gap between visual neuroscience and clinical neurology of attention and other visual abilities.  

Publications

Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Urbanski, M., Duffau, H., Volle, E., Lévy, R., Dubois, B., & Bartolomeo, P. (2005). Direct evidence for a parietal-frontal pathway subserving spatial awareness in humans. Science, 309(5744), 2226-2228. Bartolomeo, P., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., & Doricchi, F. (2007). Left unilateral neglect as a disconnection syndrome. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2479-2490. Lunven M, T. D. S. M., Bourlon C, Duret C, Migliaccio R, Rode G, Bartolomeo P. (2015). White matter lesional predictors of chronic visual neglect: a longitudinal study. Brain. Siuda-Krzywicka, K., Witzel, C., Chabani, E., Taga, M., Coste, C., Cools, N., . . . Bartolomeo, P. (2019). Color categorization independent of color naming. Cell Reports, 28(10), 2471-2479. e2475. Bartolomeo, P., Hajhajate, D., Liu, J., & Spagna, A. (2020). Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 21(9), 517-517.