1996-1998: Bachelor of Psychology (rank: 1st). Bachelor of Modern Literature (rank: 1st). University Denis Diderot (Paris VII), Paris, France.

1998-1999: Bachelor of Experimental psychology and Neurophysiology (rank : 1st). Academic Adviser : Eric Sieroff. University Renés Descartes (Paris V) and University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France.

1999-2000: Master of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience major (rank: 1st). Academic Advisers : Roland Jouvent and Alain Berthoz. University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France. Affiliated institutions: Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Normale Supérieure and EHESS, Paris, France.

October 2000-July 2005: Ph.D.s of Neuroscience (University of Iowa, Iowa City) and Cognitive Science (University of Paris VI, Paris). Dissertation title: Aspects of the Dynamics of the Human Cerebral Cortex during Induction of Emotion. Academic Advisers: Antonio Damasio and Bernard Renault [original advisor: Francisco Varela (1954-2001†)]. Labs: “Cognitive Neurosciences and Brain Imaging Laboratory” (LENA), CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; “Research Center in Applied Epistemology at the Ecole Polytechnique” (CREA), CNRS UMR 7656, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Laboratory of Human Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Professional and Academic Positions Held

August 2005- Dec 2008: Post Doctoral Scholar in the Laboratory of Computational neuroimaging, University of Iowa. Mentor: Thomas J. Grabowski, MD.

Dec 2008-Present: Assistant Professor of Neurology, Radiology and Neuroscience; Director of the Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa.

Honors and Awards

2000-2003: Graduate Research Fellowship from the French Minister of Research.

2003-2005: Graduate Research Assistantship, funded by a grant from The Mathers Foundation to Antonio R. Damasio, "The Neurobiology of Consciousness."

2005: D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize Nominee

2005-2007: Post Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Neurologic Diseases, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Professional Activities
Reviewer: Neuroimage
Reviewer: Neuropsychology
Reviewer: Psychological Science

Clinical Interests

• Dementia
• Traumatic brain injury
• Epilepsy
• Executive dysfunction
• Personality disturbances following brain damage
• Neurobehavioral rehabilitation
• Psychological treatment of medical/neurological disorders complicated by psychological factors

Research Interests

My research interests are the brain and psycho-sociological mechanisms of consciousness, subjectivity, identity, emotions, feeling and interoception, the interactions between emotion and perception, basic human neuroanatomy, and the brain mechanisms of attentional control, social cognition, and addiction.

I’m interested in particular in the mechanisms and neuroanatomical substrates of the large-scale interactions between brain systems underlying those psychological phenomena, with a focus on the Default Mode Network. I’m interested, more generally, in functional neuroanatomy, neurodynamics and functional brain imaging.

I work with source reconstruction in MEG/EEG, neurodynamic analyses applied to MEG/EEG/iEEG, Dynamic Causal Modeling, fMRI, lesion-deficit statistical mapping integrating DTI-based fiber tract information, develop methodologies for these different modalities of imaging, and pilot a large-scale postmortem human neuroanatomy project combining high-field DTI with histology.

Selected Recent Publications

Philippi C., Mehta S., Grabowski T., Adolphs R., Rudrauf D. (Accepted) Damage to association fiber tracts impairs the recognition of the facial expression of emotion. Journal of Neuroscience.

Khalsa S.S., Rudrauf D., Feinstein J.S., Tranel D. (accepted), The pathways of interoceptive awareness, Nature Neuroscience.

Gläscher J., Tranel D., Paul L.K., Rudrauf D., Rorden C., Hornaday A., Grabowski T., Damasio H., Adolphs R. (2009), Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligence, Neuron, 61(5) : 681-91.

Rudrauf D., David O., Lachaux J.-P., Martinerie J., Renault B., Kovach C., Damasio A. (2008), Rapid interactions between ventral visual stream and emotion-related structures rely on a two-pathway architecture. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(11):2793-803

Rudrauf D., Mehta S., Grabowski T.J. (2008), Disconnection’s Renaissance takes shape: formal incorporation in group-level lesion studies, Cortex, 44(8):1084-96.

Rudrauf D., Lachaux J.-P., Damasio A.R., Baillet S., Hugueville L., Martinerie J., Damasio H., Renault B. (2009), Enter feelings: somatosensory responses following early stages of visual induction of emotion. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72(1):13-23.

Rudrauf D., Mehta S., Bruss J., Tranel D., Damasio H., Grabowski T.J. (2008), Thresholding Lesion Overlap Difference Maps: Application to Naming and Recognition Deficits in Various Categories of Concrete Entities, Neuroimage, 41(3): 970-84.

Feinstein J.S., Rudrauf D., Khalsa S.S., Cassell M.D., Bruss J., Grabowski T.J., Tranel D., Bilateral limbic system destruction in man. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, in press.

Khalsa S.S., Rudrauf D., Tranel D. (2009), Interoceptive awareness decreases with age: evidence from heartbeat detection. Psychophysiology, in press.

Khalsa S.S., Rudrauf D., Sandesara C., Olshansky B., Tranel D. (2009), Bolus isoproterenol infusions provide a reliable method for assessing interoceptive awareness. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72(1):34-45.

Khalsa S.S., Rudrauf D., Damasio A.R., Davidson R.J., Lutz A., Tranel D. (2008), Interoceptive awareness in experienced meditators, Psychophysiology, 45(4):671-7.

Tranel D., Rudrauf D., Vianna E.P.M., Damasio H. (2008), Does the clock drawing test have focal neuroanatomical correlates? Neuropsychology, 22(5):553-62.

Naqvi N., Rudrauf D., Damasio H., Becharra A. (2007). Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking. Science, 315 : 531-534.

Navarro V., Le Van Quyen M., Martinerie J., Rudrauf D., Baulac M., Menini C. (2007). Loss of phase synchrony in an animal model of partial status epilepticus. Neuroscience. 148(1): 304-13.

Address

Office location: 0126 RCP
Phone: 319-356-7503
Fax: 319-384-9552
E-mail: david-rudrauf@uiowa.edu
Web: https://bicn.neurology.uiowa.edu