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Stéphane Lehéricy

Stéphane Lehéricy

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Neuroscience
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
115
Citations
47993
World Ranking
454
National Ranking
11

Medicine

D-Index
115
Citations
48016
World Ranking
4556
National Ranking
134

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award

Overview

Stéphane Lehéricy is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on neurology, with significant work in radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging, as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and physiology.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Lehéricy has published important research papers in various scientific venues. Among recent publications are:

  • "MRI of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation" (2020) in Current Opinion in Neurology
  • "The cerebral network of COVID-19-related encephalopathy: a longitudinal voxel-based 18F-FDG-PET study" (2021) in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "Pragmatic Approach on Neuroimaging Techniques for the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonisms" (2021) in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • "Brain atrophy in prodromal synucleinopathy is shaped by structural connectivity and gene expression" (2022) in Brain
  • "Voice characteristics from isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder to early Parkinson's disease" (2022) in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Frequently published venues include bioRxiv, Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Brain, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, and Brain Communications.

Collaborations feature regularly in Lehéricy's research, with frequent co-authors such as:

  • Isabelle Arnulf
  • Jean-Christophe Corvol
  • Marie Vidailhet
  • Romain Valabrègue
  • Graziella Mangone

Best Publications

  • The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients.

    Laurent Cohen;Stanislas Dehaene;Lionel Naccache;Stéphane Lehéricy

  • Language‐specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area

    Laurent Cohen;Stéphane Lehéricy;Florence Chochon;Cathy Lemer

  • Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease

    Peter Redgrave;Manuel Rodriguez;Manuel Rodriguez;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz

  • Partially Overlapping Neural Networks for Real and Imagined Hand Movements

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

  • Automatic classification of patients with Alzheimer's disease from structural MRI: A comparison of ten methods using the ADNI database

    Rémi Cuingnet;Emilie Gerardin;Jérôme Tessieras;Guillaume Auzias

  • Effect of long-term omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation with or without multidomain intervention on cognitive function in elderly adults with memory complaints (MAPT): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

    Sandrine Andrieu;Sandrine Andrieu;Sophie Guyonnet;Sophie Guyonnet;Nicola Coley;Nicola Coley;Christelle Cantet;Christelle Cantet

  • Past, present, and future of Parkinson's disease: A special essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy

    J.A. Obeso;M. Stamelou;M. Stamelou;C.G. Goetz;W. Poewe

  • Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning.

    Julien Doyon;Pierre Bellec;Rhonda Amsel;Virginia Penhune

  • Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

    Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler;Laurent Cohen

  • Distinct basal ganglia territories are engaged in early and advanced motor sequence learning

    Stéphane Lehéricy;Habib Benali;Pierre François Van De Moortele;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • Cognitive control and brain resources in major depression: an fMRI study using the n-back task.

    Philippe-Olivier Harvey;Philippe Fossati;Jean-Baptiste Pochon;Richard Levy

  • Diffusion tensor fiber tracking shows distinct corticostriatal circuits in humans.

    Stéphane Lehéricy;Mathieu Ducros;Mathieu Ducros;Pierre François Van De Moortele;Pierre François Van De Moortele;Chantal Francois;Chantal Francois

  • Support vector machine-based classification of Alzheimer’s disease from whole-brain anatomical MRI

    Benoît Magnin;Lilia Mesrob;Serge Kinkingnéhun;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • The neural system that bridges reward and cognition in humans: An fMRI study

    J. B. Pochon;R. Levy;P. Fossati;S. Lehericy

  • Partial correlation for functional brain interactivity investigation in functional MRI.

    Guillaume Marrelec;Alexandre Krainik;Hugues Duffau;Hugues Duffau;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • Multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features discriminates Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment from normal aging

    Emilie Gerardin;Gaël Chételat;Marie Chupin;Rémi Cuingnet

  • Cholinergic mesencephalic neurons are involved in gait and postural disorders in Parkinson disease

    Carine Karachi;David Grabli;Frédéric A. Bernard;Dominique Tandé

  • The Functional Neuroanatomy of Dystonia

    Vladimir K. Neychev;Robert E. Gross;Stephane Lehéricy;Ellen J. Hess

  • Functional MR evaluation of temporal and frontal language dominance compared with the Wada test

    Stéphane Lehéricy;L. Cohen;B. Bazin;S. Samson

  • Visual Word Recognition in the Left and Right Hemispheres: Anatomical and Functional Correlates of Peripheral Alexias

    L. Cohen;O. Martinaud;C. Lemer;S. Lehéricy

Frequent Co-Authors

Romain Valabregue
Romain Valabregue Sorbonne University
Bruno Dubois
Bruno Dubois Université Paris Cité
Habib Benali
Habib Benali Concordia University
Marie Vidailhet
Marie Vidailhet Sorbonne University
Didier Dormont
Didier Dormont Université Paris Cité
Christine Delmaire
Christine Delmaire University of Lille
Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac
Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac Sorbonne University
Jean-Christophe Corvol
Jean-Christophe Corvol Institut du Cerveau
Yves Samson
Yves Samson Université Paris Cité
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele University of Minnesota

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