Maître-assistante, University Hospital, Geneva

Responsible of the Cognitive Neuro-Rehabilitation Laboratory

I’m interested in chromatic motion perception and its neuronal correlates when motion is defined by color contrast carried by the three subcortical pathways in humans, namely the magno- (M), parvo- (P) and koniocellular (K) pathways by combining brain mapping imaging modalities.

Since 2004, I’m also involved in the Amnesia and Spontaneous Confabulations project, exploring the electrical cortical representation of impaired and intact memories, in collaboration with Prof Schnider.

Publications:

• Lehmann S, Morand S, James C, Schnider A (2007) Electrophysiological correlates of deficient encoding in a case of post-anoxic amnesia. Neuropsychologia Apr 9 45(8):1757-66.
• Schnider A, Mohr C, Morand S, Michel CM (2007) Early cortical response to behaviorally relevnt absence of anticipated outcomes: a human evoked potential study. Neuroimage Apr 15;35(3):1348-55.
• Schnider A, Valenza N, Morand S, Michel CM. (2002) Early cortical distinction between memories that pertain to ongoing reality and memories that don’t. Cerebral Cortex 12(1), 54-61. (pdf)
• Michel CM, Thut G, Morand S, Khateb A, Pegna AJ, Grave de Peralta R, Gonzales S, Seeck M, Landis T (2001) Electric source imaging of human cognitive Brain functions. Brain Research Reviews 36(2-3), 108-118. (pdf)
• Morand S, Thut G, Grave de Peralta R, Clarke S, Khateb A, Landis T, Michel CM (2000). Electrophysiological evidence for fast visual processing through the human koniocellular pathway when stimuli move. Cerebral Cortex 10: 817-825. (pdf)
• Thut G, Hauert C-A, Blanke O, Morand S, Seeck M, Gonzalez SL, Grave de Peralta R, Spinelli L, Landis T, Michel CM. (2000). Visually induced activity in human frontal motor areas during simple visuomotor performance. Neuroreport 11 :2843-2848.
• Thut G, Hauert C, Viviani P, Morand S, Spinelli L, Blanke O, Landis T (2000). Internally driven vs. Externally cued movement selection: a study on the timing of brain activity. Cogn Brain Res 9:261-269.
• Grave de Peralta Menedez R, Gonzalez-Andino SL, Morand S, Michel CM, Landis T (2000). Imaging the electrical activity of the brain: ELECTRA. Human Brain Mapping 9: 1-12. (pdf)
• Thut G, Hauert C-A, Morand S, Seeck M, Landis T, Michel C (1999). Evidence for interhemispheric motor-level transfer in a simple reaction time task: An EEG study.
• Exp Brain Res 119:61-67.
• Khateb A, Annoni JM, Landis T, Pegna AJ, Custodi M-C, Fonteneau E, Morand S, Michel CM (1999). Spatio-temporal analysis of electric brain activity during semantic and phonological word processing. Int. J. Psychophysiol 32: 215-231.
• Blanke O, Morand S, Thut G, Michel CM, Spinelli L, Landis T, Seeck M (1999). Visual activity in the human frontal eye field. NeuroReport 10 : 925-930.
• Delon-Martin C, Roth M, Morand S, Massarrelli R, Belle V, Decety J, Felblinger J, Decorps M, Segebarth C (1999). MRI measurement of the functional blood flow changes in cortical veins draining the motor cortex. NMR in Biomedecine 12: 107-114.
• Schweigart G, Mergner T, Evdokimidis I, Morand S, Becker W (1997). Gaze stabilization by optokinetic reflex (OKR) and vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) during active rotation in man. Vision Res 37:1643-52.
• Roth M, Decety J, Massarelli R, Delon-Martin C, Segebarth C, Morand S, Gemignani A, Decorps M, Jeannerod M (1996). Possible involvement of primary motor cortex in mentally simulated movement: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroreport 17: 1280-4.

Collaborations

• Prof Christoph Michel, Functional brain mapping lab, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Dr Gregor Thut, Functional brain mapping lab. University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Prof Eric Halgren, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, USA

Address

Stephanie Morand, PhD
HUG
Service de Neurorééducation
26 avenue beau-séjour
1211 Genève 14
tel : +41 22 382 3640
fax : +41 22 3828 338
Stephanie.morand@hcuge.ch