Anastasiya Lahutsina, M.D., Ph.D.

Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Dr. Anastasiya Lahutsina is a medical doctor, anatomist, and neuroscientist with expertise in structural neuroanatomy, MRI-based morphometry, and the anatomy of the visual system. Her research integrates classical anatomical approaches with advanced neuroimaging, including DTI/DSI tractography, cortical and subcortical morphometry, and retinotopic mapping.

She completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Charles University (Prague), where she investigated white- and grey-matter alterations in Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia using structural MRI. Dr. Lahutsina is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Université, where her work focuses on the structural and cognitive correlates of retinal degeneration in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with particular interest in retinocortical pathway anatomy and the broader network-level structural changes observed in visual system degeneration.

Dr. Lahutsina has over ten years of academic teaching experience (2015–2025) in gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, histology, embryology, and physiology across four medical faculties. She has extensive experience in human dissection, neuroanatomical instruction, and the development of clinically oriented anatomy curricula for ophthalmology, neurology, and psychiatry.

Her publication record includes peer-reviewed articles in Cells, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Applied Sciences, and BioMed Research International. She is the recipient of the Seal of Excellence (Sorbonne Université, 2025), the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence (2024), and the Czech Anatomical Society Early-Career Research Prize (2023).

Her research interests include:

• Structural MRI in neurodegeneration

• Retinocortical pathway anatomy and visual system plasticity

• DTI/DSI tractography of cortical and subcortical networks

• Quantitative neuroanatomy and cortical morphology

Dr. Lahutsina contributes to the Editorial Board her combined background in anatomical sciences, neuroimaging, and translational neuroanatomy, with a strong emphasis on rigorous methodology and interdisciplinary integration.

• Neuroanatomy
• Clinical Anatomy
• Visual System Anatomy
• Neuroimaging
• Structural MRI
• Functional MRI
• Tractography
• Neurohistology
• Visual Processing
• Neurodegenerative Disorders

• Wurst Z, Birčák Kuchtová B, Křemen J, Lahutsina A, Ibrahim I, Tintěra J, Bartoš A, Brabec M, Rai T, Zach P, Musil V, Olimpiou N, Mrzílková J. (2023) Basal Ganglia Compensatory White Matter Changes on DTI in Alzheimer’s Disease. Cells. 12(9):1220 https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12091220
• Lahutsina A, Spaniel F, Mrzílková J, Morozova A, Brabec M, Musil V, Zach P. (2022) Morphology of Anterior Cingulate Cortex and its Relation to Schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Medicine 12(1):33. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010033
• Gaspar B, Mrzílková J, Hozman J, Zach P, Lahutsina A, Morozova A, Guarnieri G, Riedlova J. (2022) Micro-Computed Tomography Soft Tissue Biological Specimens Image Data Visualization. Applied Sciences. 12(10):4918.https://doi.org/10.3390/app12104918
• Zach P, Bartoš A, Lahutsina A , Wurst Z, Gallima P, Rai T, Kieslich K, Riedlová J, Ibrahim I, Tintěra J, Mrzílková J. (2020) Easy Identification of Optimal Coronal Slice on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Measure Hippocampal Area in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients. BioMed Research International 2020:5894021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5894021

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