Paolo BARTOLOMEO
Title: Dr (MD, PhD)
Function: Team Leader, PI
Affiliated entities INSERM
Biography
Paolo Bartolomeo, with a PhD and a thesis, trained as a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist. He is the principal scientist of the research team studying the cognitive neurosciences of attention at Paris Brain Institute, within the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. He is also Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Using behavioural, neuroimaging and neurostimulation methods, Paolo Bartolomeo has developed high impact studies revealing the structural and functional neuroanatomy of attention functions in healthy individuals and in individuals with brain injury.
Research
Attention allows us to explore our environment. Many patients with a lesion of the right hemisphere of the brain find themselves living in a severed world, as they suffer from neglect (inattention) of the left side of the space. Neglected patients are not aware of the left half of their environment and have poor functional outcomes. To understand the brain's mechanisms of attention and consciousness, we study these patients and healthy participants. Our research uses several advanced methods, including neurophysiological techniques (intracerebral and MEG recordings), neuroanatomical techniques (high-resolution MRI) and behavioural techniques (manual response time and eye tracking). The long-term goal of our research is to bridge the gap between visual neuroscience and the clinical neurology of attention and other visual abilities.
Main publications
- Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Urbanski, M., Duffau, H., Volle, E., Lévy, R., Dubois, B., & Bartolomeo, P. (2005). Direct evidence for a parietal-frontal pathway subserving spatial awareness in humans. Science, 309(5744), 2226-2228.
- Bartolomeo, P., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., & Doricchi, F. (2007). Left unilateral neglect as a disconnection syndrome. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2479-2490.
- Lunven M, T. D. S. M., Bourlon C, Duret C, Migliaccio R, Rode G, Bartolomeo P. (2015). White matter lesional predictors of chronic visual neglect: a longitudinal study. Brain.
- Siuda-Krzywicka, K., Witzel, C., Chabani, E., Taga, M., Coste, C., Cools, N., . . . Bartolomeo, P. (2019). Color categorization independent of color naming. Cell Reports, 28(10), 2471-2479. e2475.
- Bartolomeo, P., Hajhajate, D., Liu, J., & Spagna, A. (2020). Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 21(9), 517-517.