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Delphine Preissmann studied psychology at the University of Geneva, where she obtained a Postgraduate degree (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in cognitive and experimental psychology. In 2009, she obtained her PhD in neuroscience from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva. She now teaches experimental psychology and cognitive neurosciences at the Universities of Lausanne and Neuchâtel and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Her research focuses on memory and behaviour, and their underlying brain correlates. She particularly works in translational aspects of cognition in psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia, and on the modulation of memory during reconsolidation with the prospect of linking neurosciences and psychoanalysis in collaboration with the Agalma foundation.
Since the 1990s, which was proclaimed the “Decade of the brain” in the US by former president George Bush Sr., the rise of neuroscience has been considered a major scientific, historical, discursive, ...