Sophie Schwartz

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Sophie Schwartz
Born (1965-12-21) December 21, 1965 (age 58)
Alma materUniversity of Lausanne
University of Geneva
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Geneva
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
ThesisMatière à rêver : exploration statistique et neuropsychologique des phénomènes oniriques au travers des textes et des images de rêve (1999)

Sophie Schwartz is a Swiss neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies the neural mechanisms that underpin experience-dependent changes in the human brain.

Early life and education

Schwartz is from Switzerland. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Geneva, where she majored in biology.[1] She moved to Lausanne as a graduate student, working toward a second bachelor's degree in psychology.[1] She studied dreams through neurophysical investigations at the University of Lausanne.[2] After completing her doctorate, Schwartz joined the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher.[1]

Career

Schwartz joined the faculty at the University of Geneva[3] and was eventually promoted to the executive committee of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory and Head of the Laboratory for Neuroimaging of Sleep and Cognition.[4] She investigates the fundamental mechanisms that determine experience-dependent changes in the brain. She is interested in models of learning and neural plasticity and their offline replay. To better understand these phenomena, Schwartz has created novel behavioural tasks, which she combines with brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and high-density electroencephalography.[5] Using EEG, Schwartz has proposed that dreams serve to simulate frightening situations to better prepare for real life dangers.[6]

Schwartz has studied brain activity during sleep, and showed that the brain processes information during deep sleep, evaluating information and retaining the most crucial concepts.[7][8] The mechanisms that underpin this memory consolidation are signals sent between the hippocampus, which stores temporary information, and other parts of the brain.[7]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ^ a b c "Loop | Sophie Schwartz". loop.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  2. ^ Schwartz, Sophie (1999). Matière à rêver: exploration statistique et neuropsychologique des phénomènes oniriques au travers des textes et des images de rêve (Thesis) (in French). Lieu de publication non identifié: [éditeur non identifié]. OCLC 78145165.
  3. ^ "Sophie SCHWARTZ - Neurosciences fondamentales - UNIGE". www.unige.ch. 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  4. ^ "Sleep and Cognition Lab | Campus Biotech". www.campusbiotech.ch. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  5. ^ "Sophie SCHWARTZ - Neurosciences fondamentales - UNIGE". www.unige.ch. 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  6. ^ "How our dreams prepare us to face our fears". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  7. ^ a b "Scientists decipher the activity of the brain in deep sleep". News-Medical.net. 2021-07-16. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  8. ^ "What does the sleeping brain think about?". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
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