Guillaume Fond

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Dr. Guillaume Fond born September 15, 1981 in Lyon, is a French public health physician and Psychiatrist, teacher, researcher, lecturer and author.

After having directed a psychiatric hospitalization department as a chef de clinique for two years, he took up his position in 2012 as coordinator of the national network of Schizophrenia Expert Centers. In 2017, he joined the public health epidemiology laboratory in Marseille (CEReSS Unit / Center for Study and Research on Health Services and Quality of Life) and took the head position of schizophrenia and resistant depression expert centers. He is currently working on population mental health, which includes topics as diverse as the influence of diet, environment and physical activity on mental health as well as burnout and repeated bullying at the workplace.

He works on the links between inflammation, stress, intestinal microbiota and mental illnesses (in particular depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). [1][1],[2],[3],[4],[5]. He also studies the influence of toxoplasmosis on the human cognition[6],[7],[8],[9],[10] and obtained his PhD degree on these topics in 2016.

He is co-editor of the group's prestigious medical journal Nature « Scientific reports »[11]. He teaches psychopharmacology, psychonutrition and prevention of work-related suffering first at the University of Montpellier 1, at the Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne and then at the Aix-Marseille Timone University of Medicine in Marseille.

Formation

Student of the lycée du Parc at Lyon (France), graduated from université Claude Bernard, he took part in humanitarian missions in Niger and Vietnam. His first contact with research was at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon with the Dr Angela Sirigu who then worked on phantom limb. He did his internship at the'université de Montpellier. He trained in cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and meditation-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). He defended his master 2 and then his thesis on the links between tobacco consumption and depression. He got his PhD degree in 2016 after three years working on the links between inflammation and mental disorders.

Récompense de l'European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology (Vienne 2016)

Awards

In 2011, he won the prize for the best scientific poster at the Parisian congress of the Encéphale. In 2016, he was appointed as the first reviewer French in psychiatry and won two awards, one from the European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology [12] and the prize for the best scientific publication of the Congrès Français de Psychiatrie [13] for his studies on the links between inflammation and cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. In the same year, he won the prize for the best poster in addictology at the same conference for the links highlighted between depression and nicotine addiction. In 2018 he received the Victoire de la Santé[14] for his research on gut microbiota transplantation in mental illness. The same year, he was awarded for the second time for the prize of best publication in psychiatry for his work on the end-of-life care of patients with severe mental illness and cancer.[15]

Inflammation and mental illness

Between 2013 and 2016, he continued his thesis on the links between immuno-inflammatory disorders and mental illnesses, in particular depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He highlights that a third of the patients present a peripheral inflammation and that this is linked to a stronger dependence to nicotine [16] impaired cognitive performance [17] to a higher resistance to treatment [18]. in 2020, he published with his team the first results on Covid-19 mortality in psychiatric patients, leading to prior vaccination in this population in 2021 in France.

Le Dr Guillaume Fond reçoit la Victoire de la Santé en 2018

Gut microbiota, mental health and psychonutrition

Dr. Guillaume Fond is the first French doctor to insist on the links between the intestinal microbiota, diet and the risk of triggering or maintaining mental illness [2]. He emphasizes the need for the addition of dietary supplements (in particular omega 3, vitamin D in the treatment of major depression and N-acetyl-cysteine for schizophrenia.

Ketamine in the treatment of depression

Dr. Guillaume Fond published in 2014 the first meta-analysis showing the effectiveness of ketamine in the treatment of major depression [3]. Five years later, this treatment will be approved for the first time by the FDA for this indication.

Suicide and public health policy

Dr. Guillaume Fond proposed the concept of the "Zeta-Jones effect", i.e. the increase in popularity of a disease when a celebrity announces that he has it [19] and proposed the use of search engines like Google Trends in the prevention of suicide. He also alerted the public authorities to the increase in suicide in France and in Europe in the 35-54 age group, whereas the public authorities were targeting their interventions at adolescents and the elderly. He also showed the importance of the impact of television series on the representation of mental illness in the general public [4].

Therapeutic fasting

He works on the effects of fasting on mental health and publishes the first review of the literature on the subject in collaboration with his German counterparts [20].

Medias

Dr. Guillaume Fond is regularly invited to appear on popular television and radio programs. He has been a columnist for the "Magazine de la santé" alongside with Marina Carrère d'Encausse and Michel Cymès and in the general public program Grand Bien Vous Fasse.

Books

In 2014, he co-authored a book on the links between evolutionary theories and mental illness [21] as well as manipulation and counter-manipulation techniques with Christophe Caupenne, former chief negotiator of the RAID [22].

In 2017, he published "Become the best version of yourself in 3 steps" with a second edition in 2019 (Ellipses). In 2018 he published "I make my life a great project" (Flammarion), in 2019 "Journey to the heart of suffering: Crossed views of the psychiatrist and the lawyer" (ed.JC Lattès) with Sophie Reichman, lawyer at the Paris bar, and in 2022, "Eat well to stop being depressed"(ed Odile Jacob).

Références

  1. fondationfondamental, « Conférence FondaMental Guillaume Fond », (consulté le )
  2. « Guérir des maladies mentales en soignant l'intestin ? », sur ARTE (consulté le )
  3. « Guillaume Fond - France Culture », sur France Culture (consulté le )
  4. (en) « Auteur - Dr Guillaume FOND », sur www.edimark.fr (consulté le )
  5. « Quelle est la part du facteur génétique dans les troubles bipolaires ? », sur www.allodocteurs.fr (consulté le )
  6. Le Figaro Santé, « Toxoplasmose et maladie mentale: un lien troublant », Figaro Santé, {{Article}} : paramètre « date » manquant (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  7. Inserm, « La toxoplasmose s’invite dans le choix des traitements psychotropes », {{Article}} : paramètre « périodique » manquant, paramètre « date » manquant (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  8. (langue non reconnue : fr_ch) Groupe Medecine & Hygiene, « La toxoplasmose en cause dans la schizophrénie », La toxoplasmose en cause dans la schizophrénie - Planete sante, {{Article}} : paramètre « date » manquant (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  9. « Votre chat peut-il vous rendre bipolaire? », LExpress.fr,‎ (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  10. « Dépression : la piste d'une maladie infectieuse », Sciences et Avenir, {{Article}} : paramètre « date » manquant (lire en ligne, consulté le )
  11. (en) « Guillaume Fond's profile on Publons », sur publons.com (consulté le )
  12. (en) ECNP, « Winners 2016 », sur www.ecnp.eu (consulté le )
  13. « Prix meilleures publications en psychiatrie de l’année | Congrès Français de Psychiatrie », sur www.congresfrancaispsychiatrie.org (consulté le )
  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jXi8k3B6xU
  15. {{Lien web|langue=fr-FR|titre=end-of-life care of patients with severe mental illness and cancer. | Congrès Français de Psychiatrie|url=hhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31677777/}
  16. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28238173
  17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27143795
  18. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29808267
  19. Guillaume Fond, Alexandru Gaman, Lore Brunel et Emmanuel Haffen, « Google Trends: Ready for real-time suicide prevention or just a Zeta-Jones effect? An exploratory study », Psychiatry Research, vol. 228, no 3,‎ , p. 913–917 (ISSN 1872-7123, PMID 26003510, DOI 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.04.022, lire en ligne, consulté le )
  20. Guillaume Fond, Alexandra Macgregor, Marion Leboyer et Andreas Michalsen, « Fasting in mood disorders: neurobiology and effectiveness. A review of the literature », Psychiatry Research, vol. 209, no 3,‎ , p. 253–258 (ISSN 1872-7123, PMID 23332541, DOI 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.12.018, lire en ligne, consulté le )
  21. Pierrich Plusquellec et Daniel Paquette, Les troubles psy expliqués par la théorie de l'évolution: Comprendre les troubles de la santé mentale grâce à Darwin, De Boeck Superieur, (ISBN 9782353273416) [lire en ligne (page consultée le 2017-01-29)] 
  22. « Petit guide de contre-manipulation, Christophe Caupenne | Éditions Mazarine », sur mazarine.fayard.fr (consulté le )

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