I did my PhD in the Cognitive Neurosciences & Brain Imaging Lab in Paris on motor timing in MEG/EEG.

I'm now interested in more complex aspects of consciousness and subjective/affective components of brain functioning. We use hypnosis as a tool to modify conscious state and behavior. Hypnosis is a striking phenomenon that can powerfully modulate the subjective appraisal of many sensory or motor experiences such as pain perception, hallucination, paralysis, alien movements.

I came to the LabNIC in Geneva where Patrik Vuilleumier combines fMRI and hypnosis. My current research is on hypnotically-induced paralysis and the role of executive control networks in regulating such hypnosis-related behavioral manifestations.