Stephan Eliez

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

Group name: Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Laboratory in Child and Adolescent 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

Abnormal Development and Dysconnectivity of Distinct Thalamic Nuclei in Patients With 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Experiencing Auditory Hallucinations.

Mancini V , Zöller D , Schneider M , Schaer M , Eliez S

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging - May 2020

Associations between schizotypal personality features, mentalizing difficulties and thought problems in a sample of community adolescents.

Salaminios G , Morosan L , Toffel E , Tanzer M , Eliez S , Badoud D , Armando M , Debbané M

Early intervention in psychiatry - Jun 2020

Potential effects of "social" distancing measures and school lockdown on child and adolescent mental health.

Clemens V , Deschamps P , Fegert JM , Anagnostopoulos D , Bailey S , Doyle M , Eliez S , Hansen AS , Hebebrand J , Hillegers M , Jacobs B , Karwautz A , Kiss E , Kotsis K , Kumperscak HG , Pejovic-Milovancevic M , Christensen AMR , Raynaud JP , Westerinen H , Visnapuu-Bernadt P

European child & adolescent psychiatry - Jun 2020

Goal-Directed-Behavior in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Implication for Social Dysfunctions and the Emergence of Negative Symptoms.

Dubourg L , Maeder J , Pouillard V , Eliez S , Schneider M

Frontiers in psychiatry - 2020

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Contact

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