Héloïse is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry. She investigates the variability of human brain folding pattern using anatomical magnetic resonance imaging. Although similar within the human kind, each individual has a unique brain folding pattern, which develops before birth and may be linked to brain function. Currently, she focuses on schizophrenia and whether brain folding pattern can capture developmental events related to the onset of hallucinations.
Initially a data-science engineer, she pursued her PhD on the dynamics of cortical folding in the preterm infant. Since then, her focus is on the value of brain folding pattern as a proxy for neurodevelopmental events, and its potential clinical applications.
