Professeur PhD, Université de Bordeaux1
Contact:
jean.louis.guillou@u-bordeaux1.fr
+33 (0)5 40 00 89 21
Site : Talence
Team:
Interactions between emotions and memory systems: from normal to pathological aging.
Domain:
Cognition and behaviour / Animal cognition and behaviour
Research axis:
- Brain and molecular mechanisms of interactions between memory systems
- Roles of positive and negative emotional feedbacks on memory formation
- Cerebral somatostatin networks and their functions
Scientific expertise:
- Integrated studies of animal behaviour
- Behavioural pharmacology
Projects:
- Impact of emotional events in developing memory pathology
- Roles of somatostatin and somatostatin receptor subtypes in emotion and cognition: relationships with aging disorders and Alzheimer’s disease.
Collaborations:
- Jacques Epelbaum
- Cécile Viollet
- Catherine Loudes
- Daniel Hoyer
Grants:
- Programme interdisciplinaire CNRS: longévité et viellissement.
Publications 2006-2011: 
Gastambide F, Lepousez G, Viollet C, Loudes C, Epelbaum J, Guillou JL (2010) Cooperation between hippocampal somatostatin receptor subtypes 4 and 2: functional relevance in interactive memory systems. Hippocampus 20:745-757. Martel G, Jaffard R, Guillou JL (2010) Identification of hippocampus-dependent and hippocampus independent memory components in step-down inhibitory avoidance tasks. Behav Brain Res 207:138-143. Chauveau F, Pierard C, Corio M, Celerier A, Christophe T, Vouimba RM, Guillou JL, Beracochea D (2009) Mediodorsal thalamic lesions block the stress-induced inversion of serial memory retrieval pattern in mice. Behav Brain Res 203:270-278. Epelbaum J, Guillou JL, Gastambide F, Hoyer D, Duron E, Viollet C (2009) Somatostatin, Alzheimer’s disease and cognition: an old story coming of age? Prog Neurobiol 89:153-161. Gastambide F, Viollet C, Lepousez G, Epelbaum J, Guillou JL (2009) Hippocampal SSTR4 somatostatin receptors control the selection of memory strategies. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 202:153-163. Blanchard J, Martel G, Guillou JL, Nogues X, Micheau J (2008) Impairment of spatial memory consolidation in APP(751SL) mice results in cue-guided response. Neurobiol Aging 29:1011-1021. Martel G, Blanchard J, Mons N, Gastambide F, Micheau J, Guillou JL (2007) Dynamic interplays between memory systems depend on practice: the hippocampus is not always the first to provide solution. Neuroscience 150:743-753. Martel G, Millard A, Jaffard R, Guillou JL (2006) Stimulation of hippocampal adenylyl cyclase activity dissociates memory consolidation processes for response and place learning. Learn Mem 13:342-348.