Publications by Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Out-of-body illusion induced by visual-vestibular stimulation

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Florian Lance, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka, Hsin-Ping Wu, Estelle Nakul

Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are characterized by the subjective feeling of being located outside one's physical body and perceiving one's own body from an elevated perspective looking downwards. OBEs have been correlated with abnormal integration of bod ...

Cell Press2023

Experimentally-evidenced personality alterations following meningioma resection: A case report

Olaf Blanke, Pavo Orepic, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Personality changes following neurosurgical procedures remain poorly understood and pose a major concern for patients, rendering a strong need for predictive biomarkers. Here we report a case of a female patient in her 40s who underwent resection of a larg ...

Elsevier Masson, Corp Off2023

The full-body illusion changes visual depth perception

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Knowing where objects are relative to us implies knowing where we are relative to the external world. Here, we investigated whether space perception can be influenced by an experimentally induced change in perceived self-location. To dissociate real and ap ...

Nature Research2023

Virtual reality intervention alleviates dyspnoea in patients recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Sylvain Cardin, Oliver Alan Kannape, Jemina Fasola, Aline Schmit, Florian Lance, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Background Immersive virtual reality (iVR)-based digital therapeutics are gaining clinical attention in the field of pain management. Based on known analogies between pain and dyspnoea, we investigated the effects of visual respiratory feedback on persiste ...

European Respiratory Soc Journals Ltd2023

ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology Assembly

Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

It is a challenge to keep abreast of all the clinical and scientific advances in the field of respiratory medicine. This article contains an overview of the laboratory-based science, clinical trials and qualitative research that were presented during the 2 ...

EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD2023

Investigation of the relationship between breathing motor adaptation and agency: a physiological & VR-based study

Olaf Blanke, Florian Lance, Sixto Luis Alcoba Banqueri, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD2022

Virtual reality intervention alleviates dyspnea in patients recovering from COVID pneumonia

Thomas Mountford, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD2022

Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering

Olaf Blanke, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory system to various areas of the brain. It is intimately associated with bodil ...

2022

The perspectives of mapping and monitoring of the sense of self in neurosurgical patients

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Giannina Rita Iannotti, Hyeongdong Park, Pavo Orepic, Sixto Luis Alcoba Banqueri, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Surgical treatment of tumors, epileptic foci or of vascular origin, requires a detailed individual pre-surgical workup and intra-operative surveillance of brain functions to minimize the risk of post-surgical neurological deficits and decline of quality of ...

SPRINGER WIEN2021

Harnessing the power of anticipation to manage respiratory-related brain suffering and ensuing dyspnoea: insights from the neurobiology of the respiratory nocebo effect

Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

2021

Mechanisms of the breathing contribution to bodily self‐consciousness in healthy humans: Lessons from machine‐assisted breathing?

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Previous studies investigated bodily self‐consciousness (BSC) by experimentally exposing subjects to multisensory conflicts (i.e., visuo‐tactile, audio‐tactile, visuo‐cardiac) in virtual reality (VR) that involve the participant's torso in a paradigm known ...

Wiley2020

Amplified engagement of prefrontal cortex during control of voluntary action in Tourette syndrome

Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Tourette syndrome is characterized by 'unvoluntary' tics, which are compulsive, yet often temporarily suppressible. The inferior frontal gyms is implicated in motor control, including inhibition of pre-potent actions through influences on downstream subcor ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020