Professor Patrik Vuilleumier leads the neuroimaging research group at Campus Biotech, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine. His work focuses on cerebral mechanisms of cognition, emotion, and consciousness using advanced neuroimaging techniques like fMRI and ERPs. Research explores visual object recognition, voice identification, emotion perception, and social signal processing Specializes in amygdala function and brain lesion impacts on cognitive processes Current projects examine emotion regulation, stress response, and social feedback processing through multimodal datasets including the groundbreaking Emo-FilM collection. His team investigates how emotions influence perception and behavior across various populations including healthy adults, clinical groups, and developmental samples. Recent work demonstrates that positive emotion upregulation shapes prefrontal-amygdala interplay, with sociality scores modulating connectivity between affective and social networks. The group studies both conscious and unconscious emotional processing mechanisms. Active clinical trials with adolescents examining stress vulnerability Develops therapeutic approaches for hemineglect and attention deficits 15+ peer-reviewed publications since 2020




