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Ph.D. Olaf BLANKE Professor and Director, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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1989-1996 Medical studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany; Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France; University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
1993-1996 Ph.D. student, Institute of Neurophysiology, Free University, Berlin
1996-1998 Postdoctoral researcher in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology, Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital
1999-2003 Resident in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital
2003-2004 Leader of Independent Research Group, University of Geneva
since 2004 Assistant Professor; Director, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne
since 2005 Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Geneva University Hospital

Publikationen

Blanke O, Ortigue S, Landis T, Seeck M: Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions. Nature 419: 269-270, 2002
Blanke O, Spinelli L, Landis T, Seeck M: Out-of body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin. Brain 127: 243-258, see also Editorial: Frith C: The pathology of experience. Brain 127: 239-242, 2004
Blanke O et al: Linking OBEs and self processing to mental own body imagery at the temporo-parietal junction. J Neuroscience 25: 550-557. [see also Editorial in the issue J Neurosci 25 (3): i], 2005
Buenning S, Blanke O.: The out-of body experience: precipitating factors and neural correlates. Progress in Brain Research 150: 333-353, 2005
Blanke O et al: Video ergo sum. Manipulating bodily self-consciousness, Science 317: 1096-1099. Nature 443: 287, 2007
Lenggenhager B, Tadi T, Metzinger T, Blanke O: Induction of an illusory shadow person. Nature 443: 287, 2006
Blanke O et al: Neuroal correlates of embodiment. Distinct contributions of temporo-parietal junction and extrastriate body area, Journal of Neuroscience 26: 8074-8081, 2006

Auszeichnungen

Pfizer Prize, 2005
Robert Bing Orize, 2006