Sébastien Delcasso

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Inah Lee at Seoul National University. Here, I have been performing multi-site electrophysiological recordings in freely moving rats as they execute contextual discriminations. The aim of my current studies is to investigate the interactions and parallel processes of hippocampal (Kim et al. 2011) and striatal memory systems (Delcasso et al. 2012, in prep.).


Previously I worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Yoon Cho at the University of Bordeaux. I studied the neural basis of procedural memory using electrophysiological recordings in a freely moving transgenic mouse model of Huntington disease, to relate altered striatal coding with their learning deficits (Cayzac et al., 2011).


I have two masters degrees, one in computer science and one in cognitive neuroscience, and a PhD in neuroscience. During my PhD, I mainly contributed to the creation of a new operant chamber in which a wide panel of cognitive capacities may be evaluated, such as procedural memory, sequential learning (Cho et al., 2007), long-term and working spatial memory (Delcasso et al., 2007), as well as motivation and behavioral inhibition. Using the last task, we were able to detect cognitive deficits in different models of Alzheimer disease as aging, hippocampal lesions, anti cholinergic drugs and transgenic mouse (Lagadec et al., 2010).