Publications related to Anosognosia

An immersive virtual reality tool for assessing left and right unilateral spatial neglect

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi

The reported rate of the occurrence of unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is highly variable likely due to the lack of validity and low sensitivity of classical tools used to assess it. Virtual reality (VR) assessments try to overcome these limitations by pr ...

Wiley2024

Fading of brain network fingerprint in Parkinson's disease predicts motor clinical impairment

Enrico Amico, Antonella Romano

The clinical connectome fingerprint (CCF) was recently introduced as a way to assess brain dynamics. It is an approach able to recognize individuals, based on the brain network. It showed its applicability providing network features used to predict the cog ...

Wiley2023

Predictive models for response to non-invasive brain stimulation in stroke: A critical review of opportunities and pitfalls

Philip Egger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel

Background: Noninvasive brain stimulation has been successfully applied to improve stroke impairments in different behavioral domains. Yet, clinical translation is limited by heterogenous comes within and across studies. It has been proposed to develop and ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

Resting-state EEG topographies: Reliable and sensitive signatures of unilateral spatial neglect

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini

Theoretical advances in the neurosciences are leading to the development of an increasing number of proposed interventions for the enhancement of functional recovery after brain damage. Integration of these novel approaches in clinical practice depends on ...

2020

You or me? Disentangling perspectival, perceptual, and integrative mechanisms in heterotopagnosia

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Aurélie Bouzerda-Wahlen

Heterotopagnosia-without-Autotopagnosia (HwA) is characterized by the incapacity to point to body parts on others, but not on one's own body. This has been classically interpreted as related to a self-other distinction, with impaired visual representations ...

2019

Visual masking and schizophrenia: enhancement deficit 200 ms after stimulus onset

Michael Herzog, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Maya Roinishvili, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Masking is strongly deteriorated in schizophrenia patients and to a lesser extent in their healthy relatives. For this reason, masking is a good endophenotype. Here, we show the EEG correlates of masking across the schizophrenia continuum in order to tackl ...

2018

Behavioral and cortical effects during attention driven brain-computer interface operations in spatial neglect: A feasibility case study

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin, Huaijian Zhang

During the last years, several studies have suggested that Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) can play a critical role in the field of motor rehabilitation. In this case report, we aim to investigate the feasibility of a covert visuospatial attention (CVSA) dr ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Multisensory interactions in peripersonal space and their contributions to bodily self-consciousness

Petr Grivaz

What is the relevance of the body and body-transformed sensory information for subjective experience? In the last two decades, paradigms from cognitive neuroscience have demonstrated that the subjective sensations of possessing a body (body ownership, BO), ...

EPFL2017

Left neglect dyslexia: Perseveration and reading error types

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients may show a reading disorder termed neglect dyslexia. Patients with left neglect dyslexia omit letters on the left-hand-side (the beginning, when reading left-to-right) part of the letter string, substitute them with other lette ...

Elsevier2016

Vestibular contribution to bodily self-consciousness and multisensory cortical processing

Christian Pfeiffer

How does the self relate to the body? Bodily self-consciousness, i.e. the sense of being a subject bound to a body, involves a first-person perspective (1PP), i.e. the sense of being directed at the world. Prior research suggests that bodily self-conscious ...

EPFL2015

Muscle synergies and spinal maps are sensitive to the asymmetry induced by a unilateral stroke

Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia

Background: Previous studies have shown that a cerebrovascular accident disrupts the coordinated control of leg muscles during locomotion inducing asymmetric gait patterns. However, the ability of muscle synergies and spinal maps to reflect the redistribut ...

BioMed Central2015

Visuo-vestibular mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

Joachim Jean-Marie Forget

Bodily self-consciousness is linked to multisensory integration and is particularly dependent on vestibular perception providing the brain with the main sensory cues about body motion and location in space. Vestibular and visual inputs are permanently bala ...

EPFL2015

(Un)awareness of unilateral spatial neglect: A quantitative evaluation of performance in visuo-spatial tasks

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients with unilateral spatial neglect are usually unaware (anosognosic) about their spatial deficits. However, in the scientific literature there is a lack of systematic and quantitative evaluation of this kind of unawareness, despit ...

Elsevier Masson2014

Combining language and space: Sentence bisection in unilateral spatial neglect

Giuseppe Vallar

In line bisection right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect show a rightward deviation, with respect to the line's physical center. In word bisection ortho-phonological features of the stimulus' final (right-sided) part modulate performance of ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Hyperschematia after right brain damage: a meaningful entity?

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

In recent years we reported three right-brain-damaged patients, who exhibited a left-sided disprortionate expansion of drawings, both by copying and from memory, contralateral to the side of the hemispheric lesion (Neurology, 67: 1801, 2006, Neurocase 14: ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive inf ...

2014

Nobel Prize centenary: Robert Barany and the vestibular system

Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez

The hundredth anniversary of Robert Barany's Nobel Prize in Medicine offers the opportunity to highlight the importance of his discoveries on the physiology and pathophysiology of the vestibular organs. Barany developed the method of caloric vestibular sti ...

Cell Press2014

The Brain Network reflecting Bodily Self-Consciousness: a functional connectivity study

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Roberto Martuzzi, Silvio Ionta

Several brain regions are important for processing self-location and first-person perspective, two important aspects of bodily self-consciousness. However, the interplay between these regions has not been clarified. In addition, while self-location and fir ...

Oxford Univ Press2014

Reduced Fronto-Temporal and Limbic Connectivity in the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Vulnerability Markers for Developing Schizophrenia?

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Marie Schaer, Leila Cammoun

The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a widely recognized genetic model allowing the study of neuroanatomicalvbiomarkers that underlie the risk for developing schizophrenia. Recent advances in magnetic resonance image analysesvenable the examination o ...

Public Library of Science2013

Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Quentin Barraud, Pavel Musienko, Rubia van den Brand, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Isabel Laura Vollenweider, Kay Alexander Bartholdi

Half of human spinal cord injuries lead to chronic paralysis. Here, we introduce an electrochemical neuroprosthesis and a robotic postural interface designed to encourage supraspinally-mediated movements in rats with paralyzing lesions. Despite the interru ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2012