Elise Leroux

I am a research engineer. After a thesis in human imaging in order to highlight the organization of the macro- (volumetry) and microstructure (integrity via DTI) of white matter (WM) in healthy volunteers, I did my postdoc under the supervision of Pr. Sonia Dollfus in order to characterize the abnormalities of this structure in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and, more broadly, to better understand the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Thus, in this perspective, I studied the WM in patients with auditory verbal hallucinations in order to identify specific brain markers of the patients’ symptomatology and I am also interested in the effects of antipsychotics and adapted physical activity, as drug and adjuvant non-pharmacological therapies respectively, on the patients’ WM and other brain structures such as hippocampal subfields.