Publications by Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Neural markers of social dominance: A female-focused perspective

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Michael Herzog, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Wei-Hsiang Lin

Social interactions are fundamental to human life, with social dominance being a key factor in these interactions. Previous studies have shown that dominant males are faster in decision-making tasks compared to non-dominant ones, even in the absence of a s ...

Elsevier BV2025

The EEG multiverse of schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Patricia Figueiredo, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Dario Alejandro Gordillo Lopez

Research on schizophrenia typically focuses on one paradigm for which clear-cut differences between patients and controls are established. Great efforts are made to understand the underlying genetical, neurophysiological, and cognitive mechanisms, which ev ...

2023

Do we really measure what we think we are measuring?

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Dario Alejandro Gordillo Lopez

Tests used in the empirical sciences are often (implicitly) assumed to be representative of a given research question in the sense that similar tests should lead to similar results. Here, we show that this assumption is not always valid. We illustrate our ...

2023

Visual masking deficits in schizophrenia: a view into the genetics of the disease through an endophenotype

Michael Herzog, Jacques Fellay, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder determined by a complex mixture of genetic and environmental factors. To better understand the contributions of human genetic variations to schizophrenia, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of ...

2022

Temporal dynamics of intranasal oxytocin in human brain electrophysiology

Patricia Figueiredo, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Oxytocin (OT) is a key modulator of human social cognition, popular in behavioral neuroscience. To adequately design and interpret intranasal OT (IN-OT) research, it is crucial to know for how long it affects human brain function once administered. However ...

2022

About common factors in vision

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Simona Adele Garobbio, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Dario Alejandro Gordillo Lopez

Often, we intuitively assume that there are common factors in life. For example, we test people with a visual acuity test to determine whether they are allowed to drive a car or not- with the implicit assumption that the acuity test is representative of vi ...

SAGE Publishing2021

The shine-through paradigm and the schizophrenia spectrum: a summary

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

In the past 10 years, our laboratory has proved the shine-through paradigm to be a very sensitive endophenotype for schizophrenia. The shine-through paradigm is a visual backward masking task, where the target is a vertical vernier followed by a 25-element ...

2021

Electrophysiological correlates of visual backward masking in patients with bipolar disorder

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

In visual backward masking (VBM), a target is followed by a mask that decreases target discriminability. Schizophrenia patients (SZ) show strong and reproducible masking impairments, which are associated with reduced EEG amplitudes. Patients with bipolar d ...

2021

Neural Compensation Mechanisms of Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients as Revealed by High-Density EEG

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Patricia Figueiredo, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Visual backward masking (VBM) deficits are candidate endophenotypes of schizophrenia indexing genetic liability of the disorder. In VBM, a target is followed by a mask that deteriorates target perception. Schizophrenia patients and, to a lesser extent, the ...

2020

EEG microstates are a candidate endophenotype for schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Christine Mohr, Patricia Figueiredo, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Electroencephalogram microstates are recurrent scalp potential configurations that remain stable for around 90 ms. The dynamics of two of the four canonical classes of microstates, commonly labeled as C and D, have been suggested as a potential endophenoty ...

Nature Research2020

Electrophysiological correlates of visual backward masking in patients with major depressive disorder

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

Depression and schizophrenia are two psychiatric diseases with high co-morbidity. For this reason, it is important to find sensitive endophenotypes, which may disentangle the two disorders. The Shine-Through paradigm, a visual backward masking task, is a p ...

2019

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

EEG signatures of schizophrenia: visual backward masking and microstates

Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Schizophrenia is a complex and devastating mental disorder that influences how one behaves, feels, and thinks. It affects a little less than 1 % of the world population and it is understood to be partly genetically mediated. Several genetic risk factors of ...

EPFL2019

Tritium distributions on W-coated divertor tiles used in the third JET ITER-like wall campaign

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Population modelling of the He II energy levels in tokamak plasmas: I. Collisional excitation model

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Pierre Jacquot, Bruno Marchand, Yves Martin, Pascal Morel, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Telmo David Ribeiro Da Costa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Thomas Riedl, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Diego Carnevale, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, 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