Curriculum vitae
Etna Engeli studied neuropsychology at the universities of Bern, Zurich and Berlin. In her master's thesis at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, she investigated the effects of empathy training on neuronal plasticity. In her PhD, she investigated the glutamatergic plasticity of reward circuits in cocaine use disorder and their interplay with craving by conducting a multimodal neuroimaging study with a pharmacological challenge. She is currently investigating the neuroplastic effects of ketamine combined with real-time fMRI neurofeedback training as a treatment approach for cocaine and alcohol use disorder, novel models of cannabis regulation and their impact on physical and psychological health and consumption behavior in cannabis users, and the effect of serotonergic psychedelics (psilocybin and MDMA) on social cognition and their therapeutic potential.