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Imagerie, Cerveau, Neuropsychiatry
Address

UMR 1253 Imagerie, Cerveau, Neuropsychiatry - Faculté de Médecine
10 Bd Tonnellé - Bât. Thérèse Planiol
Tours 37032
France

Director
Catherine Belzung
Contact
u1253@univ-tours.fr
Scientific Field

Our Unit develops diagnostic tools and innovative therapies for neuropsychiatric diseases. Our unit brings together researchers, research professors, clinicians, engineers and technicians with complementary expertise in clinical research: psychiatry, neuroscience, genetics and medical imaging; as well as in basic and clinical research: physics, chemistry, radiochemistry, acoustics, mathematics, psychiatry, neurosciences, genetics and medical imaging.

Research topics :

  • Neurophysiology and cognition of autism spectrum disorder
  • Neurobiological basis of antidepressant resistance
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Genomics and neuronal physiopathology of intellectual disabilities and amyotrophic lateral disorder
  • Development of molecular imaging methods
  • In-vitro and in-vivo metabolomics
  • Ultrasound imaging and therapy
  • Neuromodulations (tDCS, TMS, US)
  • Biomedical image and data analysis
  • Ground truth (anatomy, test object) and atlas creation

Equipment and technology:

  • Technical platform for cell biology: Primary cell culture room; Miltenyi Biotech, GentleMACS Dissociator; Leica MZ95 stereomicroscope; Leica CTR 5500 B confocal microscope; Evos M5000 microscope with onstage incubator
  • High-frequency and high-resolution digital Vevo F2 ultrasound imaging platform (Visualsonics)
  • Aixplorer ultrasound system (Supersonic imagine)
  • MicroPET/CT imaging (IRIS and IRIS-XL, Inviscan)
  • Radiotelemetry devices for locomotor activity, ECG, Arterial blood pressure, EMG
  • Behavioral testing for cognition and emotion: Videotracking (Ethovision)
  • Stereotaxic surgery
  • Optogenetic devices (Prizmatix)
  • In vivo Calcium imaging (nVoke)
  • 32 channels in-vivo electrophysiology (Axona)
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, Animal), MagVenture
  • Image/signal processing tools
  • 3 Eye tracking systems (1 FaceLab, 2 SMI RED500)
  • Mobile eye tracking glasses (SMI)
  • 2 EEG-ERPs 64-channels recording systems (Compumedics Curry 7, Biosemi ActiveTwo)
  • A neuro-vegetative recording system (Biopac MP36)
  • An ecological neuro-vegetative recording system (Phymep)
  • Emotional response recording system using Experience Sampling Method (ESM, Ipod)
  • A video network acquisition system connected to every unit of the department (12 HD cameras, video database, Povitech Archive)
  • A bioclinical database (Oracle database)
  • 3D printers
  • Access to equipment of animal facilities platform and Analysis of Biological Systems platform
  • Access to PIXANIM/INRAe equipment
  • Access to CIC-IT/CHU Tours equipment
  • Access to CERRP equipment
  • Time slots for research on the 3T MRI at the CHU Tours.

 

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