Publications by Fosco Bernasconi

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

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

Numerosity estimation of virtual humans as a digital-robotic marker for hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

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

Nature Research2024

Numerosity estimation impairment measurement system

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

Numerosity estimation impairment measurement system for diagnostic/prognosis of a neurologi- cal disorder comprising an electronic display device configured to present 3D scene representa- tions/images comprising a plurality of 3D virtual visual stimulus t ...

2024

System for predicting a prognosis of the neuropsychological and/or neuropsychiatric status in a subject

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi

The present invention relates to systems and methods for predicting a prognosis of the neuropsychological and/or neuropsychiatric status in a subject based on reports of Minor Hallucination (MH) events in combination with electrophysiological data of the s ...

2024

Robotically-induced auditory-verbal hallucinations: combining self-monitoring and strong perceptual priors

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Melissa Faggella, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Pavo Orepic

Background. Inducing hallucinations under controlled experimental conditions in nonhallucinating individuals represents a novel research avenue oriented toward understanding complex hallucinatory phenomena, avoiding confounds observed in patients. Audito ...

2024

Single neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus process cardiac and respiratory signals in humans

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Emanuela De Falco, Mariana Babo Rebelo, Marco Solcà

2024

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira

Subcortical brain structures such as the basal ganglia or the thalamus are involved in regulating motor and cognitive behavior. However, their contribution to perceptual consciousness is still unclear, due to the inherent difficulties of recording subcorti ...

2024

Theta oscillations and minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease reveal decrease in frontal lobe functions and later cognitive decline

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi

Cognitive decline and hallucinations are common and debilitating non-motor symptoms, usually occurring during later phases of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Minor hallucinations (MH) appear early in the disease course and have been suggested to predict cognitiv ...

2023

Neural signatures of visuo-motor integration during human-robot interactions

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Fosco Bernasconi, Giulio Rognini, Silvia Marchesotti

Visuo-motor integration shapes our daily experience and underpins the sense of feeling in control over our actions. The last decade has seen a surge in robotically and virtually mediated interactions, whereby bodily actions ultimately result in an artifici ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023