Prof Gilles Allali
Leenaards Memory Center, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Lecture Title: Brain functional networks in NPH. A systems approach

Prof Gilles Allali is the Director of the Leenaards Memory Center (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland) and full professor at the University of Lausanne. As a specialist in behavioral neurology and movement disorders, Prof Allali has developed clinical expertise in diagnosing reversible dementia and improving dementia-related disabilities, including motor and cognitive impairments. He obtained his PhD with a focus on the interaction between gait and the frontal lobe at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris followed by a post-doctoral fellowship on biomarkers of pathological aging completed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University (New York). As a leading researcher in the field of normal pressure hydrocephalus, he developed the Geneva Protocol, a standardized clinical protocol widely used in NPH clinics to evaluate patients with suspected NPH, effectively distinguishing NPH mimics and identifying NPH comorbidities, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Through this protocol, Prof.

Allali identified gait and cognitive characteristics that are most likely to be reversible. Based on structural and functional brain imaging, he developed advanced methods to identify reversible brain networks involved in NPH, contributing to a more precise and personalized approach to select patients for shunt surgery. Since 2023, Prof Allali has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Neurodegenerative Diseases.