Fabien Vinckier

Research interest

I'm an associate professor (MCU-PH) of Psychiatry at Université de Paris. As a psychiatrist, I work at the GHU Paris Psychiatry & Neuroscience (Service Hospitalo-Universitaire), in a department specialized in treatment-resistant depression and treatment-resistant schizophrenia. As a researcher, I try to combine computational modeling, cognitive neurosciences and psychopharmacology to better understand the cognitive pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. I’m particularly interested in (i) the cognitive mechanisms allowing the emergence of abnormal mental representations and pathological mental states (ii) how these states impact decision making, and (iii) how pharmacological or neurostimulation interventions modulates them. My research projects are organized in 3 axes:

• the emergence of delusional ideas
• the characterization of motivation disorders
• the neural correlates of slow kinetics variables such as mood