Vincent Prevot

Vincent Prevot, Development and Plasticity of the Neuroendocrine Brain/Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, Lille, France

Vincent Prevot is a Research Director in Neuroendocrinology at the Inserm. He has been heading the laboratory of Development and Plasticity of the Postnatal Brain in Lille, France, since 2006. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of Lille and performed a 3-year postdoc with Sergio R. Ojeda at OHSU before coming back to Lille to start his group. The two principal focuses of my research are the Central Control of Energy Homeostasis and the Neurobiology of Reproduction. Among our recent studies is the unexpected discovery of the role of GnRH, the neuropeptide controlling reproduction, in the regulation of cognitive processes, that an imbalance in the miRNA-transcription-factor micro-networks regulating GnRH promoter activity at minipuberty could be at the root of some neurodevelopmental disorders, and that pulsatile GnRH therapy holds potential for treating cognitive decline in adults.