Nadia Degonda

My address:

Dr. Nadia Degonda
Zwinglistrasse 40
CH-8004 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 242 22 66
E-mail: nadia@degonda.com
WWW: www.nadia.degonda.com

At the moment I'm working as Neuropsychologist, specialized in Childhood Neuropsychology, at the Department of Neuropsychology of the Swiss Center for Epilepsy (EPI) in Zurich.
	Until last year, I was working on my PhD at the Division of Psychiatry Research of the University Hospital Zurich. My research areas are the Alzheimer Disease and the human brain. I'm specialized on Neuropsychology, especially the function of the human Memory. (see: Publications)
Since 1999, I was research assistant at the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Department of Neurology, Insel Hospitel in Bern. My research area was the analysis of fMRI images, mainly focussing on language dominance.
	On the left you can see me working as a PhD-Student at the Division of Psychiatry Research of the University Hospital Zurich.

Publications

Nadia Degonda, Christian R.A. Mondadori, Simone Bosshardt, Conny F. Schmidt, Peter Boesiger, Roger M. Nitsch, Christoph Hock and Katharina Henke. Implicit Associative Learning Engages the Hippocampus and Interacts with Explicit Associative Learning.
Neuron, Volume 46, Issue 3, 5 May 2005, Pages 505-520.
Abstract online under: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Full paper online under: www.neuron.org
Bosshardt S., Degonda N., Schmidt C.F., Boesiger P., Nitsch R.M., Hock C., Henke K. One month of human memory consolidation enhances retrieval-related hippocampal activity. Hippocampus. 2005 Jul 13.
Abstract online under: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Full paper online under: www3.interscience.wiley.com
Bosshardt S., Schmidt C.F., Jaermann T., Degonda N., Boesiger P., Nitsch R.M., Hock C., Henke K. Effects of memory consolidation on human hippocampal activity during retrieval. Cortex. 2005 Aug; 41(4): 486-98.
Abstract online under: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conny F. Schmidt, Nadia Degonda, Roger Luechinger, Katharina Henke and Peter Boesiger, Sensitivity-encoded (SENSE) echo planar fMRI at 3T in the medial temporal lobe.
NeuroImage, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 April 2005, Pages 625-641.
Online under: www.sciencedirect.com/science/
Nadia Degonda (2004). Subliminally Presented Stimuli Modify Memory Performance. Implications for Theories of Long-Term-Memory. Dissertation an der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Zürich. Promotionskomitee: Prof. Dr. Kevan Martin, Dr. Katharina Henke Westerholt, Prof. Dr. Roger M. Nitsch. 141 pages. Zurich 2004. NEBIS-Nr. 004826252
As PDF [~2 MB] online under: www.dissertationen.unizh.ch/2004/degonda/diss.pdf
Axel Wollmer, Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Johannes R.Streffer, Luigi M.E.Grimaldi, Elisabeth Kapaki, Giuliana Salani, George P.Paraskevas , Alessia Maddalena, Dominique de Quervain, Claudia Bieber, DanielUmbric, Ulrike Lemke, Simone Bosshardt, Nadia Degonda, Katharina Henke, Thomas Hegi, Hans H. Jung, Thomas Pasch, Christoph Hock and Roger M. Nitsch (2002). Genetic polymorphisms and cerebrospinal fluid levels of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 1 in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease.
Psychiatric Genetics 12:155-160.
Online under: www.psychgenetics.com
Ilse Höfer, Simone Bosshardt, Nadia Degonda & Joram Feldon (2001). Gedächtnisleistung bei Senioren und jungen Erwachsenen - Erfahrungen mit computerbasierter Diagnostik. In: Psychologie und Lebensqualität / Psychologie et qualité de vie:218-219. Hrsg. im Namen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (SGP). Schweiz. Univ.-Verl. 2001. ISBN 3-7278-1357-1.

Private Pictures

	In Portugals Capital Lisbon in front of the castle
At a beach-trip during a conference in Portugal
	I like to be out in the green.
...and I like the sea
	...and I like to play music with my friend Tamara.
...and I like to cook together with my mother Anne-Marie.
	With our cat Koschka.

The most beautiful place in the world: the Sunny Mountain in direction to the Rigi Mountain.

Last update: 04.08.2005