Neurology

Sylvain Baillet, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Scientific Director, MEG Program

Specialty: Adult Neurology

Sub-Specialty:

• Functional and Structural Neuroimaging
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Epilepsy
• Depression
• Stroke
• Brain Tumors

Education:

• Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Applied Physics), 1990-1994
• PhD with honors, University of Paris, Physics (Electrical Engineering), 1998
• Post-doctoral Fellowship, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1998-2000

Training:

• Head, Methods & Models for Brain Imaging & Stereotaxy research group; Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Lab, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, 2005-2008
• Research Scientist, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Lab, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, 2000-2008
• Research scientist: Neuro-imaging group, Signal & Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1998-2000

Brief Clinical/Research Interest Statement:

Dr. Baillet is the Scientific Director of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) program at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin. He conducts clinical investigations with the departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and basic brain imaging research with his own research group. Dr. Baillet’s expertise concerns methodology for the analysis of anatomical and functional brain signals as revealed by non-invasive brain imaging techniques.

Publications:

Original Publications

1. Charlotte Rosso, Nidiyare Hevia Montiel, Sandrine Deltour, Eric Bardinet, Didier Dormont, S. Crozier, Sylvain Baillet, Yves Samson (2009), Prediction of Infarct Growth Based on Apparent Diffusion Coefficient: Penumbral Assessment without Intravenous Contrast Material, Radiology, January, 1(250): 184-192
2. Frédérique Amor, Sylvain Baillet, Vincent Navarro, Claude Adam, Jacques Martinerie, Michel Le Van Quyen (2009, in press), Cortical local and long-range synchronization interplay in human Absence seizure initiation, NeuroImage
3. Rudrauf D, Lachaux JP, Damasio A, Baillet S, Hugueville L, Martinerie J, Damasio H, Renault B. (2009, in press), Enter feelings: Somatosensory responses fol lowing early stages of visual induction of emotion., Int J Psychophysiol
4. Davina Bristow, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Jérémie Mattout, Catherine Soares, Teodora Gliga, Sylvain Baillet, J. F. Mangin (2009, in
   press), Hearing faces: How the infant brain matches the face it sees with the speech it hears, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
5. Besserve, M.; Jerbi, K.; Laurent, F.; Baillet, S.; Martinerie, J. & Garnero L. (2008), Classiffcation methods for ongoing EEG and MEG signals, Biological Research, May, 40(4): 415-37
6. Lefèvre, J. & Baillet, S. (2008) Optical Flow and Advection on 2-Riemannian Manifolds: a Common Framework, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, June 30(6): 1081-92
7. Senot, P.; Baillet, S.; Renault, B.; Berthoz, A. (2008) Cortical dynamics of anticipatory mechanisms in interception: a neuromagnetic study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Oct;20(10):1827-38.
8. Hevia-Montiel, N.; Rosso, C.; Chupin, M.; Deltour, S.; Bardinet, E.; Dormont, D.; Samson, Y., Baillet, S. (2008), Automatic prediction of
   infarct growth in acute ischemic stroke from MR apparent diffusion coeffcient maps, Academic Radiology, 15(1):77-83.
9. A. Del Cul, S. Baillet & S. Dehaene (2007), Brain dynamics underlying the non-linear threshold for access to consciousness, PLoS Biology, Sep 25;5(10):e260 (online).
10. B. Cottereau, K. Jerbi & S. Baillet (2007), Multiresolution Imaging of MEG Cortical Sources using an Explicit Piecewise Model, NeuroImage, Nov; 38(3):439-51.
11. J. Lefèvre, G. Obozinski & S. Baillet (2007), Imaging Brain Activation Streams from Optical Flow Computation on 2-Riemannian Manifolds, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 20:470-81.
12. Chupin, M.; Mukuna-Bantumbakulud, R.; Hasboun, D.; Bardinet, E.; Baillet, S.; Kinkingnéhun, S.; Lemieux, L.; Dubois, B., Garnero, L. (2007), Anatomical ly-constrained region deformation for the automated segmentation of the hippocampus and the amygdala: Method and validation on controls and patients with Alzheimer's disease, NeuroImage 34:996-1019.
13. Jerbi, K.; Lachaux, J.; N'Diaye, K.; Pantazis, D.; Leahy, R.; Garnero, L., Baillet, S. (2007), Coherent Neural Representation of Hand Speed in Humans Revealed by MEG Imaging, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 104(18):7676-81. [rated as `recommended' by Faculty of 1000-Medicine]

Books, Chapters and Reviews:

1. S. Baillet (in press), `The Dowser in the Fields: Searching for MEG Sources', The MEG Handbook, Hansen, P.; Kringelbach, M. & Salmelin, R. (eds.), Oxford University Press.
2. S. Baillet (in press), `Magnetoencephalography', The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, Wilken, P.; Bayne, T. & Cleeremans, A. (eds.), Oxford University Press.
3. J. Lefèvre & S. Baillet (in press), `Electromagnetic brain mapping of cortical activation flows', in Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Mathematical Biosciences, H. Ammari (ed.), Springer.

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