Professor Arseny Sokolov is a neurologist and Head of the Neurorehabilitation Department at the CHUV in Lausanne, specialising in the treatment of cognitive disorders, i.e. difficulties with concentration, memory or language, following a stroke, craniocerebral trauma or multiple sclerosis, among others. Following an international specialisation programme in Lausanne, Munich, London, San Francisco and Berne, Professor Sokolov is studying the potential of new technologies and music to promote recovery from neurological and cognitive disorders. In 2019, Professor Sokolov’s team organised the musical event ‘Le Cerveau enchanté’, explaining the links between the brain and music, with the participation of the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne.
Following his studies and doctorate in medicine at the University of Tübingen and his clinical and academic training in neurology in Munich and at the CHUV, Sokolov obtained a doctorate in clinical cognitive and social neuroscience at University College London. He then pursued his clinical and scientific career in the fields of neurotechnology, cognitive neurology and neurorehabilitation at the University of California San Francisco. He was appointed Deputy Director of the Neurorehabilitation Unit at the Inselspital in Berne in 2020, before taking over as Director of the Neuropsychology Unit at the CHUV in 2021 and Director of the Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service ad interim in 2023. He was formally named Head the CHUV’s Neurorehabilitation Service in July 2024.
