Maître de Conférences, HDR

y-zennou-azoguiLaboratoire de Neurosciences Sensorielles et Cognitives (LNSC), UMR 7260

Aix-Marseille Université /CNRS

Fédération de Recherche N 3512 « Comportement, Cerveau, Cognition »

Département de Biologie, UFR Sciences, Aix-Marseille Université

Courriel : yohi.zennou-azogui@univ-amu.fr

Tél : 0413550861

 

ENSEIGNEMENT

Co-responsable du master Intervention et Développement Social – Handicap et dépendance

Enseignement aux étudiants de :

  • Licence de Biologie, parcours Neurosciences
  • Licence d’orthophonie
  • Licence de Psychologie
  • Master de Neurosciences
  • Master Intervention et Développement Social – Handicap et dépendance
  • Master de Psychologie et Neuropsychologie des Perturbations cognitives

 

RECHERCHE

Thèmes de Recherche

  • Plasticité expérience-dépendante des cartes corticales somesthésiques lors du développement et chez l’adulte intact
  • Remodelage des cartes corticales somesthésiques après lésion ischémique du cortex et rééducation fonctionnelle
  • Intégration spatiotemporelle des informations sensorielles dans le cortex somesthésique et illusions tactiles

 

Méthodes et techniques d’investigation 

  • Electrophysiologie
  • Imagerie optique extrinsèque
  • Immunohistochimie
  • Comportement

… chez le rat

 

Dernières publications

Facchini J, Rastoldo G, Xerri C, Péricat D, El Ahmadi A, Tighilet B, Zennou-Azogui Y (2021) Unilateral vestibular neurectomy induces a remodeling of somatosensory cortical maps. Prog Neurobiol. Jul 8:102119. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102119. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34246703.

Caron-Guyon J, Corbo J, Zennou-Azogui Y, Xerri C, Kavounoudias A, Catz N ( 2020). Neuronal Encoding of Multisensory Motion Features in the Rat Associative Parietal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. Sep 3;30(10):5372-5386. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa118. PMID: 32494803.

Corbo J., Zennou-Azogui Y., Xerri C, Catz N (2018) Cortical Merging in S1 as a Substrate for tactile input Grouping. ENEURO.0342-17.2017. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0342-17.2017

Zennou-Azogui Y, Catz N, Xerri C (2016) Hypergravity experience within a critical period impacts on the maturation of somatosensory cortical maps and their potential for use-dependent plasticity in the adult. Journal of Neurophysiology.  DOI: 10.1152/jn.00900.2015.

Xerri C, Zennou-Azogui Y, Sadlaoud K, Sauvajon D (2014) Interplay between intra- and interhemispheric remodeling of neural networks as a substrate of functional recovery after stroke: adaptive versus maladaptive reorganization. Neuroscience 283:178–201.

Xerri C, Zennou-Azogui Y (2014) Early and Moderate Sensory Stimulation Exerts a Protective Effect on Perilesion Representations of Somatosensory Cortex after Focal Ischemic Damage Borlongan CV, ed. PLoS ONE 9:e99767.

Martinez M, Delcour M, Russier M, Zennou-Azogui Y, Xerri C, Coq JO, Brezun M (2010) Differential tactile and motor recovery and cortical map alteration after C4-5 spinal hemisection. Exp Neurol, 221(1) : 186-197.

Martinez  M, Brezun JM, Zennou-Azogui Y, Baril N, Xerri C (2009) Sensorimotor training promotes functional recovery and somatosensory cortical map reactivation following cervical spinal cord injury. E. J. Neurosci. 30(12) : 2237-2444

Rosselet C, Zennou-Azogui Y, Escoffier G, Kirmaci F, Xerri C (2008) Experience-dependent changes in spatiotemporal properties of cutaneous inputs remodel somatosensory cortical maps following skin flap rotation. Eur. J. Neurosci., 27: 1245-1260.

Miquee A, Xerri C, Rainville C, Aanton JL, Nazarian B, Roth M, Zennou-Azogui Y (2008) Neuronal substrates of haptic shape encoding and matching: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroscience, 152: 29-39.

Dykes R, Miquee A, Xerri C, Zennou-Azogui Y, Rainville C, Dumoulin A, Marineau D (2007) A Delivery device for presentation of tactile stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging. J. Neurosci. Methods 159: 308-317.

Rosselet C, Zennou-Azogui Y, Xerri C (2006) Nursing-induced somatosensory cortex plasticity: Temporally decoupled changes in neuronal receptive field properties are accompanied by modifications in activity-dependent protein expression. J. Neurosci. 26:10667-10676.

Xerri C, Zennou-Azogui Y, COQ JO (2003) Neuroprotection after focal ischemic injury: effects of piracetam treatment and environmental enrichment on the functional organization of the somatosensory cortical maps, ILAR journal, 44 (2), 108-122.

Xerri C, Zennou-Azogui Y (2003) Influence of the post-lesion environment and chronic piracetam treatment on the organization of the somatotopic map in the rat SI cortex after focal cortical injury. Neurosciences, 118, 161-177.