Mathias Pessiglione
Clinical psychologist
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
Contact Information:
Dr. Mathias Pessiglione
INSERM Unit 610
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
47 Bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris
France
Bio:
MP has a background in biology and psychology. During his PhD with Léon Tremblay in paris, he studied a primate model of Parkinson’s disease using singe-unit recordings from the basal ganglia. During his post-doc, supervised by Chris Frith at the Functional Imaging Lab in London, he used pharmacological and model-based fMRI to investigate the neural correlates of decision-making. He is now a clinical psychologist in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and a PI leading the «Motivation, Brain and Behavior» team in the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle épinière (Paris, France).