Yulia Worbe

Yulia Worbe is a tenured Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at Sorbonne University and serves as a consultant neurophysiologist and neurologist at Sorbonne University Hospitals, primarily at Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine. She specalizes in the neurophysiology of movement disorders and has a longstanding interest in Tourette syndrome.

Dr. Worbe graduated from the Medical University of St. Petersburg, Russia, where she completed her general neurology training. She subsequently specialized in movement disorders at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Her research on Gilles de la Tourette syndrome led to a PhD in Neuroscience from Sorbonne University, where she developed animal models of Tourette disorder.

She completed two post-doctoral fellowships: one at Sorbonne University, focusing on basal ganglia and network dysfunction in Tourette disorder using neuroimaging, and another at the University of Cambridge's Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, exploring serotonergic regulation of behavior using brain imaging.

Prof. Worbe’s research centers on the cognitive and behavioral aspects of movement disorders, with a focus on Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and genetic dystonia. She investigates brain function in these disorders using cognitive testing, neuroimaging, and non-invasive neurostimulation techniques.