Stephan Eliez

Group name: Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Laboratory in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Psychiatry

Domains: Development and Plasticity, Affective and Social Neurosciences

Keywords: child development, genetic, mental disorders

Research activities

The goals of our Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Laboratory in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are to study brain development and functioning in children, along with the influence of specific genetic factors on development. We aim at better understanding how genetic and brain alterations contribute to the emergence of cognitive or behavioral difficulties or psychiatric disorders during the course of development. Our research focuses on individuals who have genetic, neuropsychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders, which result in behavior, learning or emotional regulation difficulties. A collaborative multidisciplinary approach that includes genetic, structural and functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience has the following goals: a better definition of neurogenetic syndromes and conditions studied; identify markers of cognitive impairments; identify risk factors for psychiatric diseases and symptoms; use specific neurogenetic conditions as a homogeneous genetic model to better understand interactions between genes, brain, behavior and environmental factors in the etiopathogeny of neuropsychiatric diseases.

Latest publications

Developmental Alterations in the Diffusion Tensor Imaging Analysis Along the Perivascular Space Index Suggest Possible Glymphatic-Related Mechanisms Underlying Excitation/Inhibition Imbalance and Psychosis Vulnerability in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.

Pascucci A , Forrer S , Sandini C , Mancini V , Alemán-Gómez Y , Eliez S , Delavari F

Biological psychiatry global open science - May 2026

A diffusion MRI-derived perivascular metric related to glymphatic-associated processes in bipolar disorder vulnerability: Multimodal correlates across emotion dysregulation patients and offspring.

Pascucci A , Delavari F , Ville DV , Eliez S , Piguet C , Saccaro LF

Psychiatry research - Apr 2026

Multicenter retrospective study on effectiveness, reported side effects, and cognitive outcomes of SSRIs in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.

Latrèche C , Mancini V , Dvojakovska M , Kushan L , Mchangama F , Tair F , Cohen T , Spapens J , Reijn L , Díaz-Caneja CM , Acheampong H , Troch L , Vergaelen E , Vogels A , Swillen A , Vingerhoets C , Boot E , Arango C , Velders F , Fiksinski A , van Amelsvoort T , Gothelf D , Bearden CE , Chaumette B , Schneider M , Eliez S

Research square - Dec 2025

Shedding light on the dynamic interplay of positive and negative symptoms of psychosis with Behavioral Tractography.

Imparato A , Reich N , Feller C , Ilen L , Eliez S , Graser C , Schneider M , Sandini C

NPJ digital medicine - Nov 2025

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Contact

Département de psychiatrie
HUG
Email: Stephan.Eliez@unige.ch