Journal Publications

 

(Articles published in English)           

 

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Sébastien Jacquemont, Aurore Curie, Vincent des Portes, Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, Randi J. Hagerman, Feliciano Ramos, Kim Cornish, Yunsheng He, Charles Paulding, Maria Giulia Torrioli, Giovanni Neri, Fei Chen, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Danielle Martinet, Joanne Meyer, Jacques S. Beckmann, Karine Delange, Amandine Brun, Gerald Bussy, Fabrizio Gasparini, Talita Hilse, Annette Floesser, Janice Branson, Graeme Bilbe, Donald Johns, Baltazar Gomez-Mancilla, 2011. Epigenetic modification of the FMR1 gene in fragile X patients leads to a differential response to the mGluR5 antagonist AFQ056. Science Translational Medicine, 3 (64), p64ra1.

 

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RG. Walters, S. Jacquemont, A. Valsesia, AJ. de Smith, D. Martinet, J. Andersson, M. Falchi, F. Chen, J. Andrieux, S. Lobbens, B. Delobel, F. Stutzmann, JS. El-Sayed Moustafa, JC. Chèvre, C. Lecoeur, V. Vatin, S. Bouquillon, JL. Buxton, O. Boute, M. Holder-Espinasse, JM. Cuisset, MP. Lemaitre, AE. Ambresin, A. Brioshi, M. Gaillard, V. Giusti, F. Fellmann, A. Ferrarini, N. Hadjikhani, D. Campion, A. Guilmatre, A. Goldenberg, N. Calmels, JL. Mandel, C. Le Caignec, A. David, B. Isidor, MP. Cordier, S. Dupuis-Girod, A. Labalme, D. Sanlaville, M. Béri-Deixheimer, P. Jonveaux, B. Leheup, K. Õunap, EG. Bochukova, E. Henning, J. Keogh, RJ. Ellis, KD. MacDermot, C. Vincent-Delorme, G. Plessis, R. Touraine, A. Philippe, V. Malan, M. Mathieu-Dramard, J. Chiesa, B. Blaumeiser, RF. Kooy, R. Caiazzo, M. Pigeyre, B. Balkau, R. Sladek, S. Bergmann, V. Mooser, D. Waterworth, A. Reymond, P. Vollenweider, G. Waeber, A. Kurg, P. Palta, T. Esko, A. Metspalu, M. Nelis, P. Elliott, AL. Hartikainen, MI. McCarthy, L. Peltonen, L. Carlsson, P. Jacobson, L. Sjöström, N. Huang, ME. Hurles, S. O’Rahilly, IS. Farooqi, K. Männik, MR. Jarvelin, F. Pattou, D. Meyre, AJ. Walley, LJM. Coin, AIF. Blakemore, P. Froguel, JS. Beckmann. 2010. A novel highly-penetrant form of obesity due to microdeletions on chromosome 16p11.2.  Nature, 463, p671 - 675.

 

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Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E, 2010. Superior nonverbal intelligence in children with high-functioning-autism or Asperger's syndrome. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Volume 4 (3): p457 - 460.

 

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Chen F, Lemonnier E, Lazartigues A & Planche P, 2008.  Non superior disembedding performance in children with high-functioning autism and its cognitive style account. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. vol 2-4, p739-752.

 

 

 

(Scientific Letters published in English)

 

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Chen F, 2009. Inverse correlation between the conceptual and perceptual processing in children with autism may be due to processing bias differences in information recall. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice. Vol 13 (2), p193-194.  

 

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Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E & Lazartigues A, 2007. Correspondence : How could language interact with visuo-spatial performance in autism?  Medical Hypotheses. Volume 69 (3): p695-697. 

 

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Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E & Lazartigues A, 2007. Correspondence: "Stop the world" by saying "wait": What's up in autistic children? Medical Hypotheses. Volume 69 (1): p224-225. 

 

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Chen F, Lemonnier E, Lazartigues A & Planche P, 2006. Correspondence: Sleep problems and information processing, a“disconnection effect” in autism? Medical Hypotheses. Volume 66 (6): p1245-1246. 

 

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Chen F, 2005. Correspondence: How to understand autistic motivational status. Medical Hypotheses. Volume 65 (1): p195.

 

 

(Articles published in Chinese)

 

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Chen F, Yang Q, Xu Z-D, Lin M-L, 2002. Leptin and pubertal development in boys. Foreign Medical Sciences (Section of maternal and child health). Volume 13 (4): p177 - 178. 

 

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Chen F, 2001. Vojta reflex examination in high-perinatal risk infants: analysis and discussion on its scores and related factors. Modern Rehabilitation (actually as "Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research"). Volume 5 (8): p56 - 57. 

 

 

 

 

Communications and abstracts:

 

Chen F, Curie A, Desportes V, Jacquemont S, Hadjikhani N., 2009. Avoiding or Particular Fixation on Eye Region when passive viewing Human Face Photos : An Eye-tracking Study in Patients with Fragile-X syndrome. Poster communication at the Brain Mind Institute (EPFL) 2009 retreat (February 9th-10th, 2009)

 

Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E, Lazartigues A., 2007. Preserved skills in Cube Test and in CEFT in high-functioning autistic children: What's the relationship with the cognitive style? Poster communication in the 9th Summer School of Arapi: Borderline symptoms and pathologies. (Le Croisic, France, 9th-13th October, 2007). Published in Bulletin Scientifique de l'ARAPI, No. 21: page 118-122

 

Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E, Lazartigues A., 2007. Can we define a cognitive style account for children with high-functioning autism? Poster communication in the 8th International Congress Autism Europe (Oslo, August 31 – September 2, 2007)

 

Chen F, 2007. Visual perception and cognitive style in children with high-functioning autism: heterogene and flexible just like us. 12th conference of young researchers of Brest City (Faculty of Medicine of Brest, France, April 18, 2007)

 

Chen F, 2006. Cognitive style and perceptive organization of high-functioning autism: a world of Montage. 11th conference of young researchers of Brest City (Faculty of Medicine of Brest, France, April 6, 2006)

 

Chen F, Planche P, Lemonnier E & Lazartigues A, 2005. Cognitive style of high-functioning autism: field dependence or field independence? Poster communication in the 8th Summer School of Arapi: Autism, actuality and perspectives. Path of life: what treatment for what future ? (Le Croisic, France, 5-9 October, 2005). Published in Bulletin Scientifique de l'ARAPI, No. 16: page 39-41

 

Chen F, Gounot D, Marrer C & Metz-Lutz MN, 2004. The effect of task on the functional anatomy of spoken sentence processing. Poster communication in “Neurex”Annual Meeting: Neuronal connectivity, Development and function. (Freiburg, Germany, 23 Avril, 2004)

 

 

 

 

Dissertations

 

 

M.Sc Degree Neuroscience (2003 - 2004), Title : A fMRI study of spoken sentence comprehension (22 pages); Supervisor: Dr Marie Noelle Metz-Lutz, University of Louis Pasteur (University of Strasbourg), France.

 

 

Ph.D Degree Life and Health Science (2004 - 2007), Title: Cognitive style in children with high-functioning autism: field dependent or field independent? Perceptive organisation and clinical implications (226 pages); Supervisors: Prof. Alain Lazartigues et Prof. Pascale Planche, University of Western Brittany, France. The public defense has been taken place on December 11th 2007 at the Faculty of Medicine of Brest, with the presence of Prof. Catherine BARTHELEMY (Inserm U930, Tours) and Prof. Françoise BONTHOUX (CNRS-UMR5105, Grenoble) as members of the jury.

 

Abstract: The present study aimed to assess the visuospatial performance and to identify the cognitive style in 14 boys with high-functioning autism (or Asperger syndrome) and 14 chronological age (from 8 to 12 years old) and Raven’s score matched typical developed boys, using the CEFT and the Samuel Test (informatized cubes test). No significant difference has been found between performances of our two groups in both tests (although more control subjects succeeded in Samuel test). We compared between these two groups the ratio of errors for each figure of both conditions (“Triangle” and “House”) in CEFT which showed a similar ratio for most figures. Our clinical group adopted in Samuel test a range of strategies (analytic, synthetic, global) just like the control group and these two groups showed the same tendency of strategic changes (from analytic or synthetic dominant strategy to global dominant strategy) when the task turned more difficult. We observed also a tendency to use more frequently the synthetic strategy in our clinical group than in control group. All these results suggest that early findings of autistic visuospatial superiority need to be re-examined in the light of the cognitive style account. Gestalt effect and strategy mobilization were not “absent” in high-functioning autistic children but just dependent on their “cognitive style”. We couldn’t define a unique cognitive style for our clinical group in the present study because of the similarity between groups and the heterogeneity between individuals on both the performance and the cognitive strategy adoption.