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Dr. Damien Benis is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Geneva's Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Lab, specializing in neural mechanisms of emotion and cognition. His work bridges clinical neurology and cognitive neuroscience with focus on basal ganglia functions in Parkinson's disease and stroke patients.
Education
- Master in Biology, University Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble
- PhD in Neuroscience, Institut des Neurosciences de Grenoble (2014)
His research centers on affective and cognitive neuroscience, particularly vocal emotion decoding through acoustic feature analysis. Using electrophysiological recordings (microrecordings and LFP) during deep brain stimulation surgeries, he investigates how basal ganglia and cerebellum contribute to emotional prosody processing. Current projects examine neuromodulation effects on affective processes in movement disorders.
Publications from 2019-2024 reveal consistent focus on vocal emotion deficits across neurological conditions, with growing emphasis on post-viral neuropsychological complications. His work integrates neurology, psychology, and neuroimaging to map sensory-motor pathways in emotion processing.
Dr. Benis has supervised Master's research including Xavier Lince's 2019 thesis on spatial navigation and emotion in memory. As part of Geneva's Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Lab, he collaborates on interdisciplinary projects investigating neural substrates of emotional prosody using multimodal approaches.
