Tom Dufor

ORCID: 0000-0001-5804-5445
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Research Areas
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
  • Nerve injury and regeneration

University College London
2021-2023

Sorbonne Université
2018-2023

Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine
2019-2022

Adaptation Biologique et Vieillissement
2017-2022

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2018

Synapse loss strongly correlates with cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Deficient Wnt signaling contributes to synapse dysfunction and AD. Consistently, a variant of LRP6 receptor, (LRP6-Val), reduced signaling, is linked late-onset However, impact LRP6-Val on healthy AD brain has not been examined. Knock-in mice, generated by gene editing, carrying this Lrp6 develop normally. neurons from Lrp6-val mice do respond Wnt7a,...

10.1126/sciadv.abo7421 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2023-01-13

Synapse degeneration in the striatum has been associated with early stages of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases (PD HD). However, molecular mechanisms that trigger synaptic dysfunction loss are not fully understood. Increasing evidence suggests deficiency Wnt signaling triggers synapse adult brain this pathway is affected neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we demonstrate endogenous essential for integrity a subset inhibitory synapses on striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs). We found...

10.3389/fnsyn.2021.670467 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience 2021-06-03

Symposium title: Mechanisms underlying magnetic stimulation: the need for animal studies description: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, which shows promise treating range of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, to improve clinical treatment, we answer questions about how TMS interacts with and identify its mechanisms. Such fundamental are effectively not possible in humans thus require experiments different species gain insights into...

10.1016/j.brs.2023.01.141 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Brain stimulation 2023-01-01

Abstract Magnetic brain stimulation is a promising treatment in neurology and psychiatry, but clinical outcomes are variable. Unfortunately, mechanisms underlying magnetic effects ill-defined, which impedes the development of protocols appropriate for different neurological conditions. Here we show, vivo ex , that repetitive transcranial at low-intensity (LI-rTMS) induces axon outgrowth synaptogenesis to repair neural circuit. This depends on pattern, with complex patterns being particularly...

10.1101/424317 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2018-09-23

Abstract Synapse loss strongly correlates with cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Studies suggest that deficient Wnt signalling, a pathway required for neuronal connectivity, contributes to synapse dysfunction and AD. Consistent this idea, variant of Lrp6, (Lrp6-val) , which confers reduced has been linked late onset However, impact Lrp6-val on synapses healthy AD brain not examined. Using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, we...

10.1101/2022.04.06.487208 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022-04-08
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