Julia DEVANNE, winner of the Centre national de Ressources et de Résilience

Julia Devanne has been awarded an unfunded post-doctoral grant of €121,000 for her psychology and neuropsychology project entitled “La reconnexion à soi et à l’autre grâce à l’activité physique adaptée chez des femmes souffrant de douleurs pelviennes chroniques”.

Julia DEVANNE, winner of the Centre national de Ressources et de Résilience

This project aims to improve our understanding of the links between somatisation and psychotrauma through an integrative approach combining psychological and physiological measures of chronic pain and the repercussions of post-traumatic stress disorder. It also includes an interventional component aimed at assessing how personalised physical activity can promote bodily awareness and emotional regulation - and thus reconnection with oneself and others - in these patients, who are often victims of sexual violence. Finally, a specific feature of the project is also to integrate elements relating to attachment style, which can be a resilience factor or a risk factor in the regulation of pain and the experience of adverse events.

This postdoctoral project will be carried out within the ‘Adversity of life and pain’ team of the Cognitive and Adaptive Neuroscience Laboratory (LNCA, UMR CNRS 7364) at the University of Strasbourg, under the supervision of Ms Iris Trinkler (MCU) and Professor Pierrick Poisbeau.

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Julia Devanne has been a neuropsychologist since 2020 and obtained her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Strasbourg in December 2023. Her work initially focused on the relationship between frontal cognitive dysfunction and reduced pain tolerance in the elderly. Subsequently, her research focused on the involvement of cutaneous microcirculation in changes in pain perception in the elderly, as well as in diabetic patients. Her current aim is to further her research into the relationship between physical activity and the perception and management of pain. Since September 2023, she has been working at the Mulhouse Rehabilitation Centre, where she is involved, among other things, in the therapeutic education of chronic pain patients.