CURRICULUM VITAE

COMPLETE CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
NAME
DATE OF BIRTH
NATIONALITY
HOME ADDRESS
LEFEBVRE Stephanie
February 12, 1984
French
15 rue des tuiliers
69003 Lyon
(France)
0033650789233
[email protected]
Tel:
E-mail
OFFICE ADDRESS
Cognitive Neuroscience Centre
67 bd Pinel,
69500 BRON,
France
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
June 2002: Baccalaureat scientific: section biology. (International High school, Ferney Voltaire, France)
June 2006: Bachelor’s degree in biology. Specialisation was genetic and developmental biology. ( Lyon 1 university,
France)
February 2008 : Master’s degree in medical biology. Specialisation was Neurosciences. (University of Lausanne,
Switzerland)
December 2013 : PhD thesis: Biomedical and pharmatological science (Neuroscience) : Motor skill learning after
stroke : exploration of neurophysiological mechanisms with functional neuroimaging and therapeutic modulation by
non-invasive brain stimulation
POSITIONS
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Current position Post-doctoral researcher at the Cognitive Neuroscience Centre, UMR
5229, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, France, Neuroeconomics group, Reward and
decision making’
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December - august 2015: Post-doctoral researcher at the LNFP university Lille 2 (France) :
Neural substrates underlying visual hallucination in shizophrenic and parkinsonian patients
 functional magnetic resonnace imaging design and analysis using Brain
Voyager and SPM
 functional connectivity and effective connectivity
 DTI and cortical thickness analyses (FSL, Freesurfer)
 Cousciousness evaluation task design (Matlab, Psychtoolbox)
 Neuro-navigation
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2008-2013 : PhD student at UCL (University catholique de Louvain, Brussel, Belgium)
 functional magnetic resonnace imaging design (Block) and analysis using
Brain Voyager
 Motor skill learning design and analysis
 Movement analysis (CODAmotion, Matlab )
 functional connectivity
 transcranial direct current stimulation
 transcranial magnetic stimulation (Micromed, CED, cortical excitability
measurements)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Brain plasticity and its neuromodulation
Functional imaging, functional and effective connectivity
Motor control and motor learning
Brain lesion, Psychiatric diseases.
Human genetics
Price and funding
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FSR (UCL) grants 2008 & 2010
Fellowship/Grant from “Fondation Mont-godinne” : 15 000 euros. (October 2012)
Students’ supervision:
- 4 Master’s students in Belgium
- Megan Baruffa “Les neurones miroirs : méthode d'objectivation et de
stimulation de leur implication dans les mouvements laibaux du langage »
- Armelle Dupeux « La tDCS bihémisphérique peut elle améliorer les
performances motrices bimanuelles des patients parétiques post-AVC »
- Sophie Lambert « Pertinence clinique de la stimulation des neurones miroirs
dans le cadre de la revalidation motrice de l’hémiparésie post-AVC »
- Elisabeth Kerrinckx « Pertinence clinique de la stimulation des neurones
miroirs dans le cadre de la revalidation motrice de l’hémiparésie post-AVC »
- 1 Master 2 student in LNFP university Lille 2 (France)
- Guillaume Baille “Substrats neuronaux de la conscience visuelle chez les
patients parkinsoniens souffrant d’hallucinations modérées. »
- 1 Master 1 student LNFP university Lille 2 (France)
- Adeline Gianina “Substrats neuronaux de la conscience visuelle chez le sujet
agé. »
Training and course
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BrainVoyager QX formation : 2011
SPM course : May 2014
Experience as reviewer:
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Neuroscience Letters
Brain Stimulation
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Behavioural Brain Research
Bibliography :
Research or review articles with peer review (8 with 5 as first author):
Lefebvre S, Dricot L, Grandkowski W, Laloux P, Vandermeeren Y. (2012)
Brain activations underlying different patterns of performance improvement during early motor
skill learning.. Neuroimage. 2012 Aug 1;62(1):290-9. Epub 2012 May 6.
Stamatakis J, Gonzalez A, Caby B, Lefebvre S, Vandermeeren Y, Macq B. (2012)
Kinematic features of reach and grasp movements in stroke rehabilitation using accelerometers.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing,
2012 pages199-205
Vandermeeren Y, Lefebvre S, Desfontaines P, Laloux P (2012)
Could dual-hemisphere transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) reduce spasticity after
stroke? Acta Neurol Belg. 2012 Nov 21.
Lefebvre S, Laloux P, Jamart J, Peteers A, Desfontaines P; Vandermeeren Y (2013)
Dual-hemisphere tDCS boosts motor skill learning with the paretic upper limb in chronic stroke
patients: a RCT (Front. Hum. Neurosci., 09 January 2013 | doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00343)
Lefebvre S, Thonnard JL, Laloux P, Peeters A, Jamart J, Vandermeeren Y. (2014)
Single Session of Dual-tDCS Transiently Improves Precision Grip and Dexterity of the Paretic
Hand After Stroke. Neurorehabil Neural Repair February 2014 vol. 28 no. 2 100-110
Stephanie Lefebvre; Laurence Dricot; Patrice Laloux; Wojciech Gradkowski; Philippe
Desfontaines; Frederic Evrard; Andre Peeters; Jacques Jamart; Yves Vandermeeren. (2015)
Neural substrates underlying stimulation-enhanced motor skill learning after stroke Brain 2015;
doi: 10.1093/brain/awu336
Lefebvre S, Dricot L, Laloux P, Gradkowski W, Desfontaines P, Evrard F, Peeters A, Jamart J
and Vandermeeren Y (2015)
Neural substrates underlying motor skill learning in chronic hemiparetic stroke patients. Front.
Hum. Neurosci. 9:320. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00320
Yves Vandermeeren , Stéphanie Lefebvre.(2015)
Combining motor learning and brain stimulation to enhance post-stroke neurorehabilitation
Neural Regen Res 2015;10:1218-20
Under review papers:
Lefebvre S, Dricot L, Grandkowski W Laloux P, Jamart J, Peteers A, Desfontaines P;
Vandermeeren Y
A single session of tDCS during motor skill learning modifies rs-fMRI functional connectivity
one week later in chronic stroke
Abstracts and Proceedings:
Poster: Movement Disorders, San Diego, California, USA 2015
G Baille, S Lefebvre, D Pins, L Defebvre, K Dujardin
Suceptibility to visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease: a fMRI study.
MOVEMENT DISORDERS 30, S54-S54
Poster OHBM Hawaii 2015
S.Lefebvre, G. Baille, L. Plomhause, S. Szaffarczyk, L. Defebvre, K. Dujardin, R
Jardri, D. Pins
EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONAL DEFICIT ASSOCIATED WITH
THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HALLUCINATE IN PARKINSONS DISEASE
Poster DN2M Lille 2015
S.Lefebvre, G. Baille, L. Plomhause, S. Szaffarczyk, L. Defebvre, K. Dujardin, R
Jardri, D. Pins
Exploring the functional deficit associated with the susceptibility to hallucinate in Parkinson?s
disease (PD)
Poster: EAN, Berlin 2015
G Baille, S Lefebvre, D Pins, L Defebvre, K Dujardin
Access to consciousness in patients with Parkinsons disease and minor visual
hallucinations: a fMRI study
Oral Presentation EAN, Berlin 2015
Y. Vandermeeren, L. Dricot, P. Laloux, P. Desfontaines, F. Evrard, A. Peeters, J. Jamart, S.
Lefebvre
Combining non-invasive brain stimulation (dual-tDCS) and motor skill learning induces a lasting
increase of rs-fMRI functional connectivity in stroke patients
Poster European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) Glasgow 2015
Yves Vandermeeren, Maral Yeganeh Doost, Patrice Laloux, Philippe Desfontaines, Frédéric
Evrard, André Peeters, Stéphanie Lefebvre
Repeated sessions of motor skill learning under dual-tDCS in chronic stroke patients
European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC)
Poster International Congress on NeuroRehabilitation and Neural Repair, Maastricht 2015
Y. Vandermeeren, L. Dricot, W. Gradkowski,P. Laloux, P. Desfontaines, F. Evrard, A. Peeters,
J. Jamart, S. Lefebvre
Combination of dual-tDCS and motor skill learning leads to a lasting generalisation of
performance improvement: a behavioural and fMRI study
Poster : Forum GDR Psychiatry, Saint-Malo 2014
S.Lefebvre, M. Demeulemeester, G. Baille, S. Szaffarczyk, L. Defebvre, P. Thomas, C.
Delmaire, L. Plomhause, K. Dujardin, D. Pins, R. Jardri
LES SUBSTRATS NEURONAUX ASSOCIÉ S AUX HALLUCINATIONS
Abstract for oral presentation: GDR Psychiatry, Lille 2014
Baille G., Lefebvre S, Plomhause L., Defebvre L., Jardri R., Pins d, Dujardin K.
Physiopathology of visuhal hallucinations in parkinson’s disease: a fMRI study.
Poster: Society for Neural control of Movement 2014
Y. Vandermeeren, L. Dricot, W. Gradkowski,P. Laloux, P. Desfontaines, F. Evrard, A. Peeters,
J. Jamart, S. Lefebvre
Neural substrates of continued motor skill learning with the paretic upper limb one week after
real and sham dual-tDCS in chronic stroke patients: a fMRI study.
Oral presentation: World congress of neurology 2013
Y. Vandermeeren, L. Dricot, W. Gradkowski,P. Laloux, P. Desfontaines, F. Evrard, A. Peeters,
J. Jamart, S. Lefebvre
Neural substrates underlying early motor skill learning in chronic stroke patients, a fMRI study
Poster: European Stroke Conference 2013
Vandermeeren Y, Dricot L, Grandkowski W Laloux P, Jamart J, Peteers A, Desfontaines P;
Lefebvre S
Poster: Magstim summer school May 2012
Lefebvre S, Laloux P, Jamart J, Peteers A, Desfontaines P; Vandermeeren Y
Dual-tDCS improves precision grip and dexterity of the paretic hand after stroke: a RCT
Oral presentation: European Stroke Conference 2012
Vandermeeren Y, J-L Thonnard, Laloux P, Jamart J., Peteers A., Lefebvre S.
Dual-hemisphere tDCS in chronic stroke patients improves "simple" precision
grip and digital dexterity of the paretic hand with a delayed time-course
Poster : IBRO congress July 2011
Lefebvre S., L. Dricot, W. Gradkowski, P. Laloux, Y. Vandermeeren.
A fMRI study of motor learning in healthy volunteers: differential neural substrates underlying
skill learning and adaptation
Poster : FENS congress July 2008
E.van den Burg, Lefebvre S., T. Steimer, D. Viviani, R. Stoop
Neuropeptide receptor expression in the central amygdala and pituitary gland:
Implications for physiological responses to fearful stimuli
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