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Data for Deep-learning models of the ascending proprioceptive pathway are subject to illusions

Olaf Blanke, Alexander Mathis, Merkourios Simos

Here we provide the data to run the code provided in github.

Data required to train and test the models in data.zip ~37 GB when uncompressed. This includes: cleaned_smooth: pre-processed data from FLAG3D and PCR dataset, the elbow flexion datasets u ...

Zenodo2025

Deep-learning models of the ascending proprioceptive pathway are subject to illusions

Olaf Blanke, Alexander Mathis, Merkourios Simos

Proprioception is essential for perception and action. Like any other sense, proprioception is also subject to illusions. In this study, we model classic proprioceptive illusions in which tendon vibrations lead to biases in estimating the state of the body ...

Wiley2025

Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Nathaniel Evans, Bastien Orset

Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, th ...

2025

Human self and Neurosurgery: Advances and insights from Geneva

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Introduction: The preservation of the human self—a fundamental yet underexplored aspect of neurosurgical practice—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Research question: How can neural correlates of self-consciousness be identified, monitored, ...

2025

Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation: Exploring a Novel Treatment for Severe Opioid Use Disorder

Olaf Blanke, Nathalie Heidi Meyer

BACKGROUND: Opioid use disorder remains a critical health care challenge because current therapeutic strategies have limitations that result in high recurrence and deaths. We evaluated the safety and feasibility of focused ultrasound (FUS) neuromodulation ...

Elsevier BV2025

Body and self in functional neurological disorders*

Olaf Blanke

In this commentary, we comment on the closing remarks from Mark Solms at the 2024 International Neuropsychoanalysis conference in light of recent developments in neurosciences around functional neurological disorders (FND). FND is the new term used to desi ...

Informa UK Limited2025

Home-based online line bisection test detects visuo-spatial neglect and pseudoneglect in Parkinson's disease

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Louis Philippe Albert

Introduction: Parkinson's Disease (PD) may lead to cognitive symptoms, including visuo-spatial attentional deficits such as unilateral spatial neglect (USN). Although there is some evidence for USN in PD patients, especially in those with left-sided onset ...

2025

Meditation in the third-person perspective modulates minimal self and heartbeat-evoked potentials

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Experienced meditation practitioners often report altered states of their sense of self, including decentering and distancing the self from the body and one's current concerns. Altered states of the sense of self, such as disembodiment and distancing of th ...

Elsevier BV2025

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease are associated with deficits in social perception

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Louis Philippe Albert, Neza Vehar

Most structured visual hallucinations (VH) in Parkinson's disease (PD) involve animate-social objects, yet current theories fail to account for the prominent social component of VH in PD. To study social perception in PD patients with VH in a behavioral ta ...

SAGE Publications2025

Brain Oscillatory Modes as a Proxy of Stroke Recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Elena Beanato, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Maximilian Jonas Wessel

Background Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability, making the search for successful rehabilitation treatment one of the most important public health issues. A better understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying impairment and recovery is ...

SAGE Publications2025