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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

A Stand-Alone Augmented Reality Intervention for Chronic Pain using Embodied Systolic Stimulation

Skander Mensi, Sylvain Cardin, Oliver Alan Kannape, Robert Leeb, Fabien Bourban, Alexis Dorier, Andrea Serino

Chronic pain presents a tremendous personal, societal, and financial burden. Treatment options are often limited to managing symptoms as opposed to treating the causes, and the consequences of pharmacological treatments can be immensely harmful as evidence ...

IEEE2023

An immersive virtual reality system for ecological assessment of peripersonal and extrapersonal unilateral spatial neglect

Ravi Tej Sai Giridhar Tadi, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi

BackgroundUnilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a debilitating neuropsychological syndrome that often follows brain injury, in particular a stroke affecting the right hemisphere. In current clinical practice, the assessment of neglect is based on old-fashion ...

BioMed Central2023

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation restores upper limb sensory-motor functions and body representations in chronic stroke survivors

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Maria Colombo

2022

Acute stress affects peripersonal space representation in cortisol stress responders

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, John Christian Thoresen, Andrea Serino, Manon Chloé Durand-Ruel

Peripersonal space is the representation of the space near the body. It is implemented by a dedicated multisensory-motor network, whose purpose is to predict and plan interactions with the environment, and which can vary depending on environmental circumst ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Sense of agency for intracortical brain-machine interfaces

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Pavo Orepic, Tommaso Enrico Bertoni, Gaurav Sharma

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces decode motor commands from neural signals and translate them into actions, enabling movement for paralysed individuals. The subjective sense of agency associated with actions generated via intracortical brain-machine ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Body and peripersonal space representations in chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza

The continuous stream of multisensory information between the brain and the body during body-environment interactions is crucial to maintain the updated representation of the perceived dimensions of body parts (metric body representation) and the space aro ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Pavo Orepic

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an approved treatment for truncal and limb neuropathic pain. However, pain relief is often suboptimal and SCS efficacy may reduce over time, requiring sometimes the addition of other pain therapies, stimulator revision, or ...

2021

Real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback: A perspective on applications for the rehabilitation of spatial neglect

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Andrea Serino

Spatial neglect is a neuropsychological syndrome characterized by a failure to orient, perceive, and act toward the contralesional side of the space after brain injury. Neglect is one of the most frequent and disabling neuropsychological syndromes followin ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2021

Relation between palm and finger cortical representations in primary somatosensory cortex: A 7T fMRI study

Roberto Martuzzi, Olaf Blanke, Michel Akselrod, Andrea Serino

Many studies focused on the cortical representations of fingers, while the palm is relatively neglected despite its importance for hand function. Here, we investigated palm representation (PR) and its relationship with finger representations (FRs) in prima ...

Wiley2021

Rapid Recalibration of Peri-Personal Space: Psychophysical, Electrophysiological, and Neural Network Modeling Evidence

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Elisa Pellencin, Tommaso Enrico Bertoni

Interactions between individuals and the environment occur within the peri-personal space (PPS). The encoding of this space plastically adapts to bodily constraints and stimuli features. However, these remapping effects have not been demonstrated on an ada ...

2020

Subjective feeling of re‐experiencing past events using immersive virtual reality prevents a loss of episodic memory

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Lucie Bréchet, Andrea Serino

Introduction: Personally meaningful past episodes, defined as episodic memories (EM), are subjectively re-experienced from the natural perspective and location of one's own body, as described by bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Neurobiological mechanisms o ...

2020

Sensorimotor Induction of Auditory Misattribution in Early Psychosis

Patric Hagmann, Olaf Blanke, Alessandra Griffa, Pierre Progin, Giulio Rognini, Silvia Marchesotti, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino, Fosco Bernasconi, Kim Do

Dysfunction of sensorimotor predictive processing is thought to underlie abnormalities in self-monitoring producing passivity symptoms in psychosis. Experimentally induced sensorimotor conflict can produce a failure in bodily self-monitoring (presence hall ...

2020

How ageing shapes body and space representations: A comparison study between healthy young and older adults

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza, Giuliana Sorrentino, Charlène Zuber

To efficiently interact with the external world, the brain needs to represent the size of the involved body parts - body representations (BR) - and the space around the body in which the interactions with the environment take place - peripersonal space rep ...

2020

Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically-controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Pierre Progin, Masayuki Hara, Giulio Rognini, Polona Pozeg, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Fosco Bernasconi, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Giedre Stripeikyte

Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder. We report a robotics-based method able to investigate the ...

2020

Hand perceptions induced by single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over the primary motor cortex

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza, Giuliana Sorrentino, Matteo Vissani

Background When single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is applied over the primary motor cortex (M1) with sufficient intensity, it evokes muscular contractions (motor-evoked potentials, MEPs) and muscle twitches (TMS-evoked movements). Partic ...

2019

Peri-personal space encoding in patients with disorders of consciousness and cognitive-motor dissociation

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Maria Manuela da Silva Marques

Behavioral assessments of consciousness based on overt command following cannot differentiate patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) from those who demonstrate a dissociation between intent/awareness and motor capacity: cognitive motor dissociation ...

2019

First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Quentin Antoine Marie Theillaud, Lucie Bréchet, Andrea Serino, Baptiste Gauthier

Episodic memories (EMs) are recollections of contextually rich and personally relevant past events. EM has been linked to the sense of self, allowing one to mentally travel back in subjective time and re-experience past events. However, the sense of self h ...

2019

Augmented manipulation ability in humans with six-fingered hands

Olaf Blanke, Michel Akselrod, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino

Springer2019

The Bodily Self In Psychosis: Sensorimotor Induction Of Auditory Misattribution In Psychosis Is Linked To Neural Disconnectivity

Patric Hagmann, Olaf Blanke, Alessandra Griffa, Pierre Progin, Giulio Rognini, Silvia Marchesotti, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino, Kim Do

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019