@OlafBlankeLab

Neuroscience of self-consciousness | Altered states | Meditation |Neuroprosthetics | Virtual Reality | Robotics/Haptics | @Neuro_X_EPFL | @Brainmind_EPFL

 Geneva, Switzerland
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Joined May 2022
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🧠 New study answering one of the most controversial question in Parkinson's disease: what role does dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) 💊 actually play in triggering hallucinations? 📃 For more details check the preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.64898… Overview in 🧵 (1/8)
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Happy that our PD hallucinations paper is featured in the new @NatMentHealth editorial, highlighting notable parallels across psychiatric & neurological conditions in how hallucinations and delusions emerge. nature.com/articles/s44220-0… Paper: rdcu.be/fm8kx

Errors of their (path)ways: hallucinations and delusions

Nature Mental Health - As aspects of human cognition, hallucinations and delusions can become clinical concerns when they persist, intensify or disrupt daily life. Seen through the lens of modern...

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🧠 New paper in @NatMentHealth ! In Parkinson's Disease, we show that patients at risk of cognitive decline have a distinct brain fingerprint, and that patient-specific networks associate with clinical outcomes and neurochemical substrate. Paper 👇
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Olaf Blanke (@OlafBlankeLab) presenting exciting work on the sense of agency and paving the way to experimental approaches to #neuroethics questions at #HybridMinds @Neuro_X_EPFL @EPFLcdh
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Recently published in #eNeuro: @nathalie_heidi @OlafBlankeLab et al. used virtual reality to assess how we subjectively relive past experiences. @Neuro_X_EPFL @Brainmind_EPFL eneuro.org/lookup/DOI/10.152…
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Thrilled to see this work in @CommsBio! fMRI connectomes enable subject identification 👥 even in #Alzheimers Brain #fingerprints remain unique but reconfigure as disease progresses, offering exciting potential to capture clinical heterogeneity! 📄 -> rdcu.be/dUjGy
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This study describes a premotor-hippocampal coupling in episodic memory, revealing how bodily sensory context and in particular, sense of agency of the observer at encoding is neurally reinstated during memory retrieval. @OlafBlankeLab, @nathalie_heidi doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0…
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fMRI-neurofeedback targeting a hallucination-related whole-brain network allows individuals to control its temporal properties & modify proneness to hallucination induction, showing promise for future therapies. @HerbertoDhanis @OlafBlankeLab @dvdevill doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0…

Real-time fMRI neurofeedback modulates induced hallucinations and underlying brain mechanisms

Communications Biology - fMRI-neurofeedback targeting a hallucination-related whole-brain network allows individuals to willfully control its temporal properties and modify proneness the...

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Interested in how functional connectivity fingerprints can predict individual variability in behaviour in Parkinson’s Disease patients with and without hallucinations? Then come and see me today and tomorrow @OHBM #OHBM2024 Poster #294 @OlafBlankeLab
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Very grateful that our research, together with Gilles Allali, on #hallucinations and cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases has been awarded the Leenaards Foundation Translational Science Prize @EPFL_en @Neuro_X_EPFL @CHUVLausanne @OlafBlankeLab
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EPFL neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of presence hallucinations. The test, also available online, provides the medical community with a tool to monitor hallucination susceptibility. @OlafBlankeLab @EPFL_en @Neuro_X_EPFL
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Scientists in Switzerland have developed a robotic device to induce hallucinations in people with Parkinson's disease in a bid to help design better therapies

Scientists simulate hallucinations in Parkinson's study – Science

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Neza Vehar@NezaVehar21 Nov 2023
Couldn't have done it without the priceless contributions of Louis Philippe Albert (@_Louis_Albert) and Arthur Trivier (@Viarthy) - both credited with VR magic, face morphing & avatar creation and general life-saving skills 🤩😅
Juliette Boscheron@Juliettebsch20 Nov 2023
So proud to see my brilliant colleague and dear friend @NezaVehar presenting her PhD work on identity of presence hallucinations at the Neuro-X Annual Research Symposium #NARS23 @EPFL 🤩
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Thrilled to have participated to the @Neuro_X_EPFL Research Day yesterday! The event showcased a remarkable breadth of interdisciplinary research at the institute! I am grateful for the opportunity to present my work and engage with such a dynamic community!
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Michael Fox@foxmdphd11 Oct 2023
Can you use a "sensorimotor robot" to screen for risk of #hallucinations in #parkinson's? Great talk by Fosco Bernascope @OlafBlankeLab @EPFL_en who showed the answer is YES - also predicts risk of cognitive decline in PD.
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Out in @CORTEXjournal: Case of a patient who developed borderline personality disorder after a large tumor resection. We mirror the diagnosis in a self-other voice discrimination task, both behaviorally and in task-associated EEG patterns. rb.gy/2roqg Preprint 🧵⬇️
Pavo Orepic@OrepicPavo1 Sep 2022
Preprint 🚨! Borderline personality disorder following resection of large sagittal sinus meningioma is evidenced by a self-other voice discrimination task: a case report! w tweeting auth @OlafBlankeLab @GenevaNeurosurg @HyeongDong_Park @DoctoresseSoso 1/7 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Borderline personality disorder following resection of large sagittal sinus meningioma is evidenced...

Personality changes following neurosurgical procedures pose a major concern for patients and remain poorly understood both by clinicians and neuroscientists. Here we report a case of a female patient...

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Today at #MDSCongress I'll be presenting my latest work on individual features of functional connectivity in Parkinson's Disease patients with #hallucinations! In collab with @OlafBlankeLab @javipagor et al. Pass by #poster n. 1623 to discuss about it!
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Very happy to present at #MDSCongress our recent work on how "minor" #hallucinations and frontal theta are related to cognitive decline in #Parkinson 's disease. Poster #334 Monday @ 13h in collaboration with @OlafBlankeLab @javipagor J. Kulisevsky @smartinezho1 @HBejrkasem
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Hi fellow neuroscience PhDs 👋 #OHBM2023 Interested in Open Science? @OhbmOpen We are organizing a summer school in September at @EPFL 🇨🇭on Open and Reproducible Practices for Experimental Research @ORPER23 Come register! 👇
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Hi #OHBM2023 🧠! I am presenting my poster on somatomotor contribution to autobiographical memory memory today and tomorrow, come pass by if you are interested! 📌 Palais des Congrès, Montréal - room 220 🔍 poster # 2162
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#OHBM2023 attendees! If you are interested in network dynamics as #Parkinson patients develop more severe forms of hallucinations, I will be at my poster (1573) Tue and Wed from 12h45 to 14h45 🧠 Bonus: I will also tell you how we induce hallucinations with a robot 😎 @OHBM
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