Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

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sophie.betka@epfl.ch +41 21 693 17 73

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H4 3 146.084 (Campus Biotech batiment H4)
Ch. des Mines 9
CH-1202 Genève

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Domaines de compétences

Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Psychiatry.
Consciousness, Emotion, Interoception, Addiction, Motor Control.
fMRI, MRS, ECG, respiration, EEG, baroreflex sensitivity etc.

Biographie

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Geneva , in cognitive neuroscience. My research interests are predominantly in consciousness science and physiology.

Additonal Missions

During my PhD, I really enjoyed being a student rep; making sure that the needs of my colleagues were met by ensuring a good communication between the PhD students and the doctoral school board.

As a postdoctoral researcher, I would like to represent my peers at EPFL institutional meetings.
Therefore, I am candidating to the EPFL Assembly and the SV School Council Elections as part of the scientific staff.

Travail en cours

My current research is exploring 1) the causal relationship between interoception, bodily self-consciousness and insular lesions, using high density EEG and lesion mapping analyses in patients; 2) the motor control of breathing and its feeling of agency, using virtual reality and neuroimaging; and 3) the relationship between disembodiment and bodily signals, in the context of virtually induced out-of-body experience.

Parcours professionnel

May-July 2018

Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Department of Neuroscience, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre

Research assistant

2013-2014

Psychiatric Unit of Armentieres & Geriatric Centre of Tourcoing

Neuropsychologist

Formation

2015-2018

Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Department of Neuroscience, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre

PhD in Neuroscience

2013-2014

University of Grenoble, Hospital Centre of Tourcoing & Addiction Centre of Lille

Neuropsychologist Qualification

2011-2013

University of Grenoble & Cognitive and Affective Sciences Laboratory of Lille

MSc in Neuropsychology & Clinical Neuroscience // clinical and research internships

2008-2011

Catholic University of Lille

BSc in Psychology // clinical Internships

Récompenses

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship(~€200k)

Post-doctoral Fellowship

2020-2022

Society for the Study of Addiction PhD Studentship (~£25k)

Doctoral Studentship

2016-2018

Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarship (~£20k)

Doctoral Scholarship

2015-2018

Publications

Sélection de publications

Schaller, K., Iannotti, G. R., Orepic, P., Betka, S., Haemmerli, J., Boex, C., Alcoba-Banqueri, S., Garin, D. F. A., Herbelin, B., Park, H.-D., Michel, C. M., & Blanke, O. (2021). The perspectives of mapping and monitoring of the sense of self in neurosurgical patients. Acta Neurochirurgica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04778-3
Rae, C., Parkinson, J., Betka, S., Gould Van Praag, C., Bouyagoub, S., Polyanska, L., Larsson, D., Harrison, N., Garfinkel, S., Critchley, H. (2020) Amplified engagement of prefrontal cortex during control of voluntary action in Tourette syndrome Brain Communications, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2020, fcaa199, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa199
*Betka, S., Canzoneri, E., Adler, D., Herbelin, B., Bello-Ruiz, J., Similowski, T., Blanke, O.* (2020) Mechanisms of the breathing contribution to bodily self‐consciousness in healthy humans: Lessons from machine‐assisted breathing? Psychophysiology DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13564
Betka, S., Pfeifer, G., Harris, L., Rae, C., Sequeira, H., Duka, T., Critchley, H. (2019) Signatures of alcohol use in the structure and neurochemistry of insular cortex: a correlational study. Psychopharmacology 236:2579–2591 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-019-05228-w
Hughes, L., Betka, S., Longarzo, M. (2018) Validation of an electronic version of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire (SAQ) in English and Italian healthy samples. International journal of methods in psychiatric research.28(1) DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1758
Betka, S., Gould Van Praag, C., Paloyelis, Y., Pfeifer, G., Sequeira, H., Duka, T., Critchley, H. (2018) Impact of intranasal oxytocin on interoceptive accuracy in social drinkers: An attentional mechanism? Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsy027
Betka, S., Pfeifer, G., Garfinkel, S., Prins, H., Bond, R., Sequeira, H., Duka, T., Critchley, H. (2018) How do self-assessment of alexithymia and sensitivity to bodily sensations relate to alcohol consumption? Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. DOI:10.1111/acer.13542
Pfeifer, G., Garfinkel, S., Gould van Praag, C., Sahota, K., Betka, S., Critchley, H. (2017) Feedback from the heart: emotional learning and memory is controlled by cardiac cycle, interoceptive accuracy and personality. Biological Psychology, 126. pp. 19-29. ISSN 0301-0511

Enseignement & Phd

Neuroscience: behavior and cognition

I am teaching a course focusing on Interoception to EPFL master students.
This course covers the concept of Interoception, the physiology of the different interoceptive pathways, the neural correlates of interoceptive processes, the detailed anatomy of the insular cortex, its main functions, and the experimental paradigms classically used to measure interoception.

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