Blanke Lab

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

[Sara Stampacchia @SaraStampacchia]

🧠 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: https://t.co/4Mt2XDBWc4

Overview in 🧵 (1/8)

[Sara Stampacchia @SaraStampacchia]

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.
https://t.co/4wqXqbs2Mn

Paper: https://t.co/fsRsbxkVTK

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Full paper here: https://t.co/GQc5f49tDE or here: https://t.co/KjarpEUcyd Special thanks to all co-authors for making this work possible @BernasconiFosco @Enri_amico @la_da_k @John_PaulTaylor Alan Thomas @javipagor Jaime Kulisevski

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Thanks @epflSV @Neuro_X_EPFL @Brainmind_EPFL for promoting our latest work! 🧠 Led by @SaraStampacchia and published in @NatMentHealth, we reveal individualised neural substrates of early cognitive changes and minor hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease 👉 https://t.co/DV3VNZfX6T

[Sara Stampacchia @SaraStampacchia]

🧠 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 👇

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📰 Robotics to detect cognitive decline: our new study demonstrates that early cognitive dysfunction relates to minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease.
Read the full paper: 👇https://t.co/NxiftpbTuP

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Jevita Potheegadoo spoke at the “Rendez-vous Recherche” webinar on the 9th of March hosted by @FranceParkinson with 400+ participants joining to learn about minor hallucinations and cognitive impairment. Watch 👇 https://t.co/p7w6sIj72r

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📰New Paper out: Altered interoceptive brain mechanisms in Functional Neurological Disorder. Work led by Natascha Stoffel and conducted in collaboration with Prof. Selma Aybek from the University of Fribourg https://t.co/AddC1cUp8u #epfl

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Rare amnesic patient reveals body's role in autobiographical memory. Check out our new paper led by @nathalie_heidi and @BaboRebelo !
https://t.co/4gPX5Y3fdI #epfl

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🧠New paper out!

We show how motor cortex signals relate to free will, developing a new voluntary action paradigm and a brain-machine interface. A step closer to understanding how thoughts become actions — and making brain tech feel like body.

📄 https://t.co/9FbZRCeaPt

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

👥 Why do hallucinations in Parkinson's often feature people or animals?

Our new study finds patients over-perceiving people (but not control stimuli). We link this social bias to loneliness and anthropomorphism.

📄 https://t.co/rHGqac0GJU

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🧠 New study led by Tommaso Bertoni, published in @NatureComms, shows that pre-movement alpha oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating brain connectivity—using BMI and EEG.

📰 https://t.co/6kEs3sPLiq

@andrea__serino @DoctorAliRezai @EPFL_en @CHUVlausanne @WVURNI

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

@BaboRebelo @AgEInves @idibaps @hospitalclinic @mavi_sanchez Congratulations Mariana @BaboRebelo!

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🚨 Research Assistant Position in Clinical Neuropsychology 🚨

Join us to study self-consciousness alterations in healthy & clinical populations 🧠✨

📍 Geneva | 🗓️ Start: 15/03/25 | 📜
Deadline: 15/02/25

🔗 Details & apply: https://t.co/4zcl76eNi3

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Really excited to share our collaborative work with @HummelLab, led by the talented @BeanatoElena and Hyuk-June Moon, now published in @ScienceAdvances!

[Hummel Lab @UPHUMMEL_EPFL]

🔥Our paper combining tTIS and VR during fMRI just made the cover of @ScienceAdvances

In collab. with @OlafBlankeLab, we show modulation of spatial navigation in healthy humans associated to changes in hippocampal activity and grid-cell like activity.

https://t.co/AATgZ9vInr

[Marcello Ienca @MarcelloIenca]

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

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Work led by Myeong-Seop Song (@seop_myeong), in collab with Andrea Serino (@andrea__serino), Oliver Kannape (Centre de médecine virtuelle CMV @hug_ge), and Dario Floreano (@DFloreano).

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Co-existence of two selves?

Fitting subjects with autonomous drones we show that two separate spaces of selfhood exist simultaneously at two distinct locations.

📰Preprint -->  https://t.co/fyn7R1FOt4

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

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
https://t.co/4hvqpizodd

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

We are happy to announce that the Franco Regli Award 2022/2023 went to Fosco Bernasconi (@BernasconiFosco)
Congrats Fosco!

https://t.co/U5ELOk6pNh #epfl