Biography

I am a neuroscientist, interested in consciousness. I obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience with Stéphanie Clarke & Lucas Spierer in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2012. I then worked with Franz X Vollenweider in Zurich (Switzerland), and Niko A Busch in Berlin (Germany), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Currently, I am senior researcher at EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, with Olaf Blanke, and investigate the underlying mechanisms of aberrant perceptions (hallucinations) and their role in cognitive decline in Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

Interests

  • Consciousness
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Dementia with Lewy Bodies
  • Hallucinations
  • Cognitive decline
  • Brain-body interaction
  • Sleep

Education

  • PhD in neuroscience, 2012

    Lausanne University

  • MSc in Medical Biology, 2008

    Lausanne University

  • BSc in Biology, 2007

    Lausanne University

List of Publications

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Theta oscillations and minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease reveal decrease in frontal lobe functions and later cognitive decline

Cognitive decline and hallucinations are common and debilitating non-motor symptoms, occurring during later phases of Parkinson’s …

Phantom Boarder Relates to Experimentally-Induced Presence Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease

Background: Phantom boarder (PB) is the sensation that someone uninvited is in the patient’s home despite evidence to the …

Robotically-induced auditory-verbal hallucinations: combining self-monitoring and strong perceptual priors

Background: Inducing hallucinations under controlled experimental conditions in non-hallucinating individuals represents a novel …

Neuroscience robotics for controlled induction and real-time assessment of hallucinations

Although hallucinations are important and frequent symptoms in major psychiatric and neurological diseases, little is known about their …

Neural signatures of visuo-motor integration during human-robot interactions

Editorial on our Science Translational Medicine paper

Robots Induce Parkinson Disease Hallucinations

Editorial on our Science Translational Medicine paper

Robot-induced hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease depend on altered sensorimotor processing in fronto-temporal network

Hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are disturbing and frequent non-motor symptoms and constitute a major risk factor for …

Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s …

Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence for altered interoceptive bodily processing in chronic pain

Whereas impaired multisensory processing of bodily stimuli and distorted body representation are well-established in various chronic …

Sensorimotor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

Hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are one of the most disturbing non-motor symptoms, affect half of the patients, and …

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