Fabrice Wallois

My research relates to the analysis and the maturation of the neural networks whatever they are respiratory or cortical, physiological or pathological in the child and in the animal. More recently, the development of acquisition and analysis tools allowing the characterization of the electric (EEG) magnetic (MEG) and hemodynamic (fNIRS) activities and their modulations in certain physiological and pathological situations as well as the localization of the sources of these cerebral activities in the child and notably in prematures are in the centre of the research. To meet this goal I aim for development of tools allowing simultaneous analysis of modification in electric (High resolution EEG) magnetic (Optical Pump Magnetometer MEG) and local hemodynamic (High Resolution NIRS, Optical imaging) cerebral activity, under physiological (cerebral maturation, adaptation to the extrauterine life, adaptation of the premature neuronal network to exogenous stimuli (lingustic and musical)) and pathological conditions (anoxic ischemia of the premature baby, neurological suffering of the preborn, and epilepsy). I developed the GRAMFC (Groupe de recherches sur l’analyse multimoda de la fonction cérébrale (Inserm UMR 1105) from 2000 as a multidisciplinary group and unifies since then a team of neuropsychologists, intensive care paediatricians and specialists in signal processing, neuropediatricians, obstetricians and child psychiatrists.