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Bertrand Gaymard is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their scientific contributions focus on neurological and genetic disorders, with specific attention to neurodegenerative diseases and molecular mechanisms underlying these conditions.

Their work has been published across multiple venues recognized for neuroscience and clinical neurology studies, including:

  • Brain
  • EBioMedicine
  • Neurology
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Movement Disorders

Recent publications by Gaymard document a range of topics within genetic and autoimmune neurological disorders, as well as longitudinal biomarker studies in inherited ataxias. Notable papers include:

  • Motor neuron pathology in CANVAS due to RFC1 expansions, 2021, Brain
  • Clinical and genetic keys to cerebellar ataxia due to FGF14 GAA expansions, 2023, EBioMedicine
  • Delayed Benefit From Aggressive Immunotherapy in Waxing and Waning Anti-IgLON5 Disease, 2021, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Longitudinal Changes of Clinical, Imaging, and Fluid Biomarkers in Preataxic and Early Ataxic Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 and 7 Carriers, 2024, Neurology
  • Rare Missense Variants in KCNJ10 Are Associated with Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia, 2024, Movement Disorders

Gaymard frequently collaborates with researchers including Aurélie Méneret, Giulia Coarelli, Alexis Brice, Alexandra Dürr, and Aude Sangaré, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork in neurogenetics and clinical neurology.

Their scientific inquiry covers main topics such as genetic neurodegenerative diseases, mitochondrial function and pathology, vestibular and auditory disorders, neurological disorders and treatments, autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments, genomics and rare diseases, as well as genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Vestibular and Auditory Disorders
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Subfields pertinent to Gaymard's research encompass neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, and ophthalmology, positioning their expertise at the intersection of clinical and molecular approaches to neurological diseases.

Best Publications

  • Partially Overlapping Neural Networks for Real and Imagined Hand Movements

    Emmanuel Gerardin;Angela Sirigu;Stéphane Lehéricy;Jean-Baptiste Poline

  • Cortical control of reflexive visually-guided saccades.

    Ch. Pierrot-Deseilligny;S. Rivaud;B. Gaymard;Y. Agid

  • Cortical control of saccades

    Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny;Sophie Rivaud;Bertrand Gaymard;René Müri

  • Eye movement disorders after frontal eye field lesions in humans

    S. Rivaud;R. M. Müri;B. Gaymard;A. I. Vermersch

  • Decisional role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in ocular motor behaviour.

    C. Pierrot‐Deseilligny;R. M. Müri;C. J. Ploner;B. Gaymard

  • Cortical control of saccades.

    B Gaymard;C J Ploner;S Rivaud;A I Vermersch

  • Eye movements in parkinsonian syndromes.

    Marie Vidailhet;Sophie Rivaud;Neziha Gouider-Khouja;Bernard Pillon

  • Cortical control of memory-guided saccades in man.

    C Pierrot-Deseilligny;S Rivaud;B Gaymard;Y Agid

  • Impairment of sequences of memory-guided saccades after supplementary motor area lesions

    B. Gaymard;Ch. Pierrot‐Deseilligny;S. Rivaud

  • An internationally standardised antisaccade protocol

    Chrystalina Antoniades;Ulrich Ettinger;Bertrand Gaymard;Iain Gilchrist

  • The frontal eye field is involved in spatial short-term memory but not in reflexive saccade inhibition.

    B. Gaymard;C. J. Ploner;S. Rivaud-Péchoux;C. Pierrot-Deseilligny

  • Effects of Cortical Lesions on Saccadic

    Ch. Pierrot-Deseilligny;C. J. Ploner;R. M. Müri;B. Gaymard

  • FXTAS New insights and the need for revised diagnostic criteria

    Emmanuelle Apartis;Anne Blancher;Wassilios G. Meissner;Lucie Guyant-Maréchal

  • Effects of single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices during memory-guided saccades in humans.

    R. M. Muri;A. I. Vermersch;S. Rivaud;B. Gaymard

  • Longitudinal ocular motor study in corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy

    S. Rivaud-Péchoux;M. Vidailhet;G. Gallouedec;I. Litvan

  • Cortical control of ocular saccades in humans: a model for motricity.

    C Pierrot-Deseilligny;R M Müri;C J Ploner;B Gaymard

  • Effects of anterior cingulate cortex lesions on ocular saccades in humans.

    B. Gaymard;S. Rivaud;J. F. Cassarini;T. Dubard

  • The prefrontal substrate of reflexive saccade inhibition in humans.

    Christoph J. Ploner;Bertrand M. Gaymard;Sophie Rivaud-Péchoux;Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny

  • Lesions Affecting the Parahippocampal Cortex Yield Spatial Memory Deficits in Humans

    Christoph J. Ploner;Bertrand M. Gaymard;Sophie Rivaud-Péchoux;Michel Baulac

  • Do the eyes scan dream images during rapid eye movement sleep? Evidence from the rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder model

    Laurène Leclair-Visonneau;Laurène Leclair-Visonneau;Delphine Oudiette;Delphine Oudiette;Bertrand Gaymard;Bertrand Gaymard;Smaranda Leu-Semenescu

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie Rivaud-Péchoux
Sophie Rivaud-Péchoux Sorbonne University
Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny
Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny University of Montpellier
Christoph J. Ploner
Christoph J. Ploner Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Yves Agid
Yves Agid Institut du Cerveau
René M. Müri
René M. Müri University of Bern
Alexandra Durr
Alexandra Durr Sorbonne University
Thomas Nyffeler
Thomas Nyffeler University of Bern
Evžen Růžička
Evžen Růžička Charles University
Robert Jech
Robert Jech Czech Education and Scientific Net work
Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau

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