Audrey VANHAUDENHUYSE

Neuropsychologist, Researcher at CHU Liège and GIGA ULiège

Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse is a neuropsychologist with a PhD in Medical Sciences. She is interested in modified consciousness processes (hypnosis, virtual reality, trance). A researcher in the Algology Department of the University Hospital of Liège, she also heads the Sensation & Perception Research Group, a research unit of the University of Liège’s GIGA Consciousness. Its objectives are to develop clinical research paradigms to evaluate the contribution of non-pharmacological tools to the overall well-being of patients (chronic pain, oncology, burns, intensive care, etc.), and to study the neural correlates of hypnosis, trance and virtual reality to better understand the processes underlying these particular states of consciousness. In collaboration with GIGA Consciousness, various acquisition techniques are used: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, High Density Electroencephalography, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.