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Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

Social isolation shortens lifespan through oxidative stress in ants

Alessandro Crespi, Laurent Keller

Social isolation negatively affects health, induces detrimental behaviors, and shortens lifespan in social species. Little is known about the mechanisms underpinning these effects because model species are typically short-lived and non-social. Using coloni ...

Nature Research2023

Designing Online Multiplayer Games with Haptically and Virtually Linked Tangible Robots to Enhance Social Interaction in Therapy

Pierre Dillenbourg, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Hala Khodr, Mehdi Akeddar

The social aspects of therapy and training are important for patients to avoid social isolation and must be considered when designing a platform, especially for home-based rehabilitation. We proposed an online version of the previously proposed tangible Pa ...

IEEE2022

Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback: Methods and Application to Chronic Tinnitus

Nicolas Gninenko

In the last twenty years, advances in real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) have offered exciting new tools to study the human brain. One of them, termed rt-fMRI neurofeedback (NF), has turned the MRI scanner environment into an interac ...

EPFL2022

Maladaptive emotion regulation traits predict altered corticolimbic recovery from psychosocial stress

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Background: Adaptive recovery from stress promotes healthy cognitive affective functioning, whereas maladaptive recovery is linked to poor psychological outcomes. Neural regions, like the anterior cingulate and hippocampus, play critical roles in psychosoc ...

ELSEVIER2021

Diazepam actions in the VTA enhance social dominance and mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens by activation of accumbal dopamine D1 receptors

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Fiona Hollis, Jocelin Grosse, Ioannis Zalachoras, Olivia Zanoletti, Marie-Isabelle Guillot de Suduiraut, Michael van der Kooij, Laura Lozano Montes, Sonia Abad Florensa

Benzodiazepines can ameliorate social disturbances and increase social competition, particularly in high-anxious individuals. However, the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying benzodiazepines’ effects in social competition are not understood. Convergi ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Social isolation stress and chronic glutathione deficiency have a common effect on the glutamine-to-glutamate ratio and myo-inositol concentration in the mouse frontal cortex

Rolf Gruetter, Alberto Corcoba, Kim Do, João Miguel das Neves Duarte

Environmental stress can interact with genetic predisposition to increase the risk of developing psychopathology. In this work, we tested the hypothesis that social isolation stress interacts with impaired glutathione synthesis and have cumulative effects ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Christopher Tucci, Bettina Lynda Bastian

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Living Without a Car : A Canada-France Comparative Outlook

Dominic Villeneuve

This research explores the links between social exclusion, car dependence and public policies for members of non-motorized households who are potentially socially excluded. It is at the crossroads of urban sociology, public policy and transport geography. ...

EPFL2017

Let Your Body Speak: Communicative Cue Extraction on Natural Interaction Using RGBD Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Employment interviews are relevant scenarios for the study of social interaction. In this setting, social skills play an important role, even though the interactions between potential employers and candidates are often limited. One fundamental aspect of so ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

The effects of stress during early postnatal periods on behavior and hippocampal neuroplasticity markers in adult male mice

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Jocelin Grosse, Olivia Zanoletti, Michael van der Kooij

Infancy is a critical period for brain development. Emerging evidence indicates that stress experienced during that period can have long-term programming effects on the brain and behavior. However, whether different time periods represent different vulnera ...

2015

Social deficits induced by peripubertal stress in rats are reversed by resveratrol

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Guillaume Poirier

Adolescence is increasingly recognized as a critical period for the development of the social system, through the maturation of social competences and of their underlying neural circuitries. The present study sought to test the utility of resveratrol, a di ...

2014

Female vulnerability to the development of depression-like behavior in a rat model of intimate partner violence is related to anxious temperament, coping responses, and amygdala vasopressin receptor 1a expression

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Guillaume Poirier

Exposure to violence is traumatic and an important source of mental health disturbance, yet the factors associated with victimization remain incompletely understood. The aim of the present study was to investigate factors related to vulnerability to depres ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

General developmental health in the VPA-rat model of autism

Henry Markram, Kamila Markram, Georges Khazen, Mônica Regina Favre

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition diagnosed by impaired social interaction, abnormal communication and, stereotyped behaviors. While post-mortem and imaging studies have provided good insights into the neurobiological symptomology of autism, animal ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Different emotional disturbances in two experimental models of temporal lobe epilepsy in rats

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Affective symptoms such as anxiety and depression are frequently observed in patients with epilepsy. The mechanisms of comorbidity of epilepsy and affective disorders, however, remain unclear. Diverse models are traditionally used in epilepsy research, inc ...

Public Library of Science2012

Evidence for biological roots in the transgenerational transmission of intimate partner violence

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Vandana Veenit, Basira Salehi, Guillaume Poirier, Cristina Marquez Vega, Xavier Fontana

Intimate partner violence is a ubiquitous and devastating phenomenon for which effective interventions and a clear etiological understanding are still lacking. A major risk factor for violence perpetration is childhood exposure to violence, prompting the p ...

2012

Machine Vision-Based Analysis of Gaze and Visual Context : an Application to Visual Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Basilio Noris

Visual behavior, and specifically gaze directed at objects and people, is a fundamental cue for understanding how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience and respond to social interaction. Indeed atypical behaviors such as averting the gaze ...

EPFL2011

Abnormal fear conditioning and amygdala processing in an animal model of autism

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Henry Markram, Deborah La Mendola, Kamila Markram, Tania Rinaldi

A core feature of autism spectrum disorders is the impairment in social interactions. Among other brain regions, a deficit in amygdala processing has been suggested to underlie this impairment, but whether the amygdala is processing fear abnormally in auti ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

fMRI activation during a language task in adolescents with ASD

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by language and communication impairments, social impairments, and repetitive behaviors or restricted interests. Previous Studies of semantic functions have found differences in ...

Cambridge University Press2008

The role of the amygdala in emotional memories : a multidisciplinary approach

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Kamila Markram

This thesis investigates the role of the amygdala for the establishment of fear memories with a multidisciplinary approach, including behavioural, psychopharmacological, genetic, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques in rats or mice, under healthy ...

EPFL2007