| Chantal Martin Soelch, Ph.D.
Chantal Martin Soelch, Ph.D. is a research fellow for the Section on Neuroimaging of Mood and Anxiety Disorders at the National Institute of Mental health (NIMH). She received her PhD in Psychology from the University Fribourg in Switzerland and performed her research at the Positron Emission Tomography (PET)-Department of the Swiss National Institute for Physics Research. She worked there for Dr. K.L. Leenders and Dr. W. Schultz and investigated the neurobiological correlates of reward mechanisms and their role in dependence. In parallel to her research activity, she worked as a Neuropsychologist at the Memory Clinic of the Psychiatric University Hospital of the University Zurich, Switzerland. She worked then as assistant professor at the Department of Psychology of the University Basel, Switzerland. During this time, she performed functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)-studies on the multi-modal processing of emotional stimuli and further fMRI-studies on reward processing. She also conducted several studies investigating the autonomic activation related to the presentation of different types of emotional stimuli in healthy subjects and in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder as well as behavioral studies on the emotional changes associated with stereotactic surgery in patients with thalamo-cortical rhythm disorders. She worked part-time as senior scientist in the outpatient clinic for pathological gambling at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland, where she developed several research projects related to the evaluation of the treatment of pathological gamblers as well as to the processing of monetary reward in these patients. Dr. Martin-Soelch joined Dr. Wayne Drevets laboratory at NIMH in 2005. Her research currently focuses on the investigation of the neural bases of reward and learning processes in Bipolar Disorder and in Major Depressive Disorder using fMRI as well as on the role of the dopaminergic system in these processes using PET receptor studies. |
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