Patricia Gaspar

Biography

 Patricia Gaspar is a Research Director (DR1), at Inserm in the "Institut du Fer à Moulin" a Neuroscience Center on brain development and plasticity. She is the current Director of Ecole de Neurosciences de Paris. She was trained as an MD in neurology in Paris at the Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière and did her PhD at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris on the anatomy of dopaminergic systems in the human brain in relation to Parkinson’s disease. Her team focuses on the developmental mechanisms underlying neurological and psychiatric disorders. The team discovered in particular unexpected developmental roles of serotonin on neural circuit development using genetic approaches in mice. She now shares the direction of a team with Christine Métin at the Institut du Fer à Moulin.  Among the current research themes in the laboratory she directly supervises projects aimed to understand better the development of the serotonin circuits, in particular to identify subsystems that have different developmental trajectories and subserve different functions in adults. The work of PG has led to 100 publications that have been cited more than 6000 times.

Research Interest

 Neuroscience