Dominique de Quervain

Dominique de Quervain (born December 8, 1968) is a Swiss neuroscientist. He is professor of neuroscience and director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is known for his pioneering research into the use of glucocorticoids (cortisol) in the treatment of PTSD and phobias^[1][2]. He is understood to have found a link between cortisol and forgetting, specifically that cortisol can inhibit memory retrieval.^[3][4][5] Furthermore, he is known for his important contributions to the field of genetics of human memory.^[6][7]

In 2006 Dominique de Quervain received the Pfizer-Prize in Neuroscience, in 2007 the Robert-Bing Prize of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2010 he has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

References

1. ^ http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/03/27-02.html
2. ^ http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/damping-down-fear-with-cortisol.html
3. ^ BBC NEWS | HEALTH | Hormone makes 'mind go blank'Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
4. ^ de Quervain et al., Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory. Nature, 394, 787-790 (1998)
5. ^ de Quervain et al., Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in humans. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 313-314 (2000)
6. ^ de Quervain et al., A functional genetic variation of the 5-HT2a receptor affects human memory. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 1141-1142 (2003)
7. ^ de Quervain et al., A deletion variant of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans. Nature Neuroscience 10:1137-1139 (2007)

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