Raphael Gaillard

My main research interest is in coupling cognitive neuroscience (including experimental psychology, computational modeling and neuroimaging) and pharmacological challenges in patients as well as in normal volunteers. I’m also interested in better understanding how inflammation could cause or at least worsen mental diseases, using both clinical and preclinical studies. In both fields, i.e. cognitive neuroscience and inflammation related diseases,  pharmacological challenges (psychotomimetic drugs/antipsychotics, depressogenic drugs/antidepressants, anxiolytics, mood regulators) are considered as a way to better characterize pathophysiology and to pave the way for innovative treatment strategies. 

Current position

Head of the 15^th department of psychiatry since 2011, Sainte Anne hospital – Paris Descartes University (15^th district of Paris, 9 wards, 200 beds, 6 outpatients facilities, 12 000 patients a year)

Full professor since 2012 in the Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Santé Mentale et de Thérapeutique, Sainte Anne hospital – Paris Descartes University.

Training

Post-doctoral position: research associate (2009-2010), Brain Mapping Unit, Cambridge University, Prof. Fletcher

2007 : PhD in neurosciences. Louis Forest’award from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Direction : Docteur Lionel Naccache

Jury : Professeur Stanislas Dehaene, Professeur Francis Eustache, Professeur Philippe Fossati, Professeur Marie-Odile Krebs, Docteur Lionel Naccache, Docteur Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Professeur Patrik Vuilleumier (Genève)

2004 : MD diploma. Pierre Robin’s award from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

2000-2007 : residency and training in psychiatry in Paris

1996-2000 : graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm