VANDEWALLE Gilles
Directeur de recherches FNRS & Fonds assoc.
Professeur
Faculté des Sciences
Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution
GIGA Neurosciences - Sleep and chronobiology
- ULiège address
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Bât. B30 GIGA Neurosciences - Sleep and chronobiology
Quartier Agora
allée du 6 Août 8
4000 Liège
Belgique
- ULiège phone number
- +32 4 3662367
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences de la Santé
- Personal website (s)
- Sleep and chronobiology lab
Biography
Gilles Vandewalle¿s research focuses on the brain mechanisms involved in the regulation of human sleep and wakefulness and its importance for cognition and brain health. Electrophysiology, neuroimaging and neuropsychological testing are at the core of the research, including TMS-EEG, PET scan, MRI and UHF-MRI. Genetics and aging have been two major tools to address inter-individual differences in sleep-wake regulation and in seeking the keys for successful aging.
Gilles Vandewalle research follows several streams: non-visual impact of light on cognitive brain function, emotion processing and seasonal affective disorder, in young and older individuals; dynamics of basic brain function across the sleep wake cycle; change in sleep wake regulation in aging; link between sleep-wake regulation and Alzheimer¿s disease. Since 2020, he studies sleep physiology and the non-visual impact of light using ultra-high-field 7 Tesla MRI.
Since 2022, Gilles Vandewalle is co-director of GIGA-CRC-In Vivo Imaging (with Dr. F. Collette).
Research field
- Imagerie médicale, radiologie, tomographie
- Neurophysiologie
- Neurosciences cognitives
- Physiopsychologie et psychologie biologique [psychologie]
- Neurologie
Duties or mandates
- FNRS Senior Research Associate
- Co-director of GIGA-CRC-In Vivo Imaging
ULiège Course
Biochimie et physiologie humaines normales et pathologiques
- Système cardiovasculaire , 10h Th, KOLH Philippe
- Système respiratoire, 10h Th, CATALDO Didier
- Système nerveux, 20h Th, GARRAUX Gaëtan
- Système nerveux - notions spécifiques, 2h TP, VANDEWALLE Gilles
Introduction aux neurosciences cognitives, 26h Th, 26h Pr, VANDEWALLE Gilles
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- A new European project to decipher the early progression of Parkinson's disease
- The locus coeruleus, a key regulator of human sleep
- Higher light levels may improve cognitive performance
- The GIGA-CRC-Human Imaging receives exceptional funding from the ROGER DE SPOELBERCH Foundation for a large-scale project on Alzheimer's disease.
- The roles of the locus coeruleus and the thalamus in our sleep and brain stimulation
- Researchers from the University of Liège receive almost €1 million for their research on Alzheimer's disease
- The symphony of brain waves during sleep orchestrates memory and the progression to Alzheimer's disease
- New european project IRONSLEEP
- First observation of the early link between proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease and their impact on brain function
- European funding of 200 000€ for the GIGA-CRC for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research
- The University of Liège participates in a project aiming to better understand the impact of light
- ULiège is the first university in Belgium to get a 7 Tesla MRI scanner
- Luminothérapie : la lumière pour aller mieux?
