Special Seminar May 2025

New Models for Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Abstract: My main research interest is on bipolar disorder structural connectivity and networks. I will the work of my past group in France, that mostly used diffusion and fMRI. We thus developed a line of research around brain networks in bipolar disorder and the study of the action of lithium, the main treatment for bipolar disorder. I will also present the framework I would like to develop in the coming years in Melbourne. My goal will be to develop a testable, challengeable, model of bipolar disorder that will range from neuronal excitability to clinical symptoms, through brain networks and connectivity and sleep studies. I will use Diffusion MRI, 7T fMRI, EEG, clinical, circadian and rodent studies to achieve this goal.

Bio: I am a newly appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Northern Health in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. Previously to his, I did my medical studies (MD, Psychiatry) in Université Paris Est Créteil, France, as well as my PhD. I am also an alumni visiting school at the Douglas Mental Health Institute (Montréal, Quebec, Canada). I ran a lab of neuroimaging in psychiatry at the  ultra high field NeuroSpin neuroimaging Platform from 2013 to 2025. My main focus of interest is on the study of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism using structural MRI.

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