Curriculum

Actual Employment

Research assistant at University of Ferrara, Section of Clinical Neurology. Corso Giovecca 203. 44100.  Ferrara. Italy. Title of the project : Clinical Neurophysiological studies of cortical functions.

Research assistant for the Foundation Neurological Institute Carlo Besta. Neurophysiologic Unit and Epilepsy Centre. Coma Research Center. Via Celoria 11. 20133. Milan. Italy. Title of the project : Start up for diagnosis and prognosis of Disorders of Consciousness.

Education

Medical degree (6 years): University of Ferrara. Final Dissertation : Deep brain Stimulation in patients with Generalized Dystonia.

Specialization in Neurology (5 years): University of Ferrara.  Final Dissertation: MEG: Feasibility of clinical Magnetoencephalography (MEG) functional mapping  in the presence of dental artefacts.

Work Experiences

2003-2004 Research fellowship at University of Ferrara with the Project "Language as an action: a neurophysiological studies " at the University of Ferrara, Dpt. of Biomedical Sciences (Prof. L. Fadiga)

2005-2010 During Residency in Neurology:

Acute Neurological Care, Stroke Unit, Multi pathologies of Nervous System Day Hospital and ambulatories’ activity. Dpt. of Neurology, University Hospital of Ferrara (Prof. Enrico Granieri)

(3 years).

Electroencephalography and Epileptology /Foundation Neurological Institute Carlo Besta Milan (2 Years).

Past research experiences

2010 (6 months).

Whole Head Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and related techniques for clinical (source localization) and experimental (connectivity) use. Free University. Amsterdam. (Prof. Cornelis Stam and Arjan Hillebrand). See pubblication.

2009 – today

History of Neuroscience (prof. Enrico Granieri) (see publications).

2006-2010

Coregistration EEG-fMRI in patients affected by Unverricht Lundborg Disease. Neurophysiological of Myoclonic activity. Multimodal and cognitive Evoked Related Potential in patients affected by Dementia, MCI. (dott.ssa Silvana Franceschetti).

2005-2007

Clinical studies on the efficacy of a pleasure music in motor performance in  Parkinson disease (Prof. Enrico Granieri).

Adenosine receptor in blood sample of patients affected by Parkinson Disease. (Prof. E.Granieri and Prof. A. Borea). See pubblication.

2005-today

Clinical, Epidemiological, Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Monitoring of neurological diseases. (prof. Enrico Granieri) (see publications).

2004-2011

Clinical Studies on Left frontal aphasics act to demonstrate mirror neurons functions and the speech-actions encoding in frontal areas . See Publications, book chapters. (Prof. Luciano Fadiga and Prof. Enrico Granieri).

2003-2004.

sTMS studies on premotor cortex in normal subject  (4 months). (Prof. Luciano Fadiga)

2002-2003.

Participated in electrophysiological experiments (Intra cortical Recording of single neuron activity) in premotor area F5 in monkey in awake monkey. (Prof. Luciano Fadiga)

2003: (Dott. Roberto Eleopra e Prof. Enrico Granieri)

Current Projects

Behavioural and morphometric study in highly selected lesioned patients (Fronto lobar degeneration, Primary progressive Aphasia) for action-speech encoding in frontal area. (Prof. Lucianoi Fadiga, Dott. Fabrizio Tagliavini e Prof. Enrico Granieri)

Neurophysiological evaluations of 130 patients with Disorder of Consciousness (24 Hours EEG and multimodal Evoked Potential and ERP) associated with neuroimaging (olfactory fMRI, rsMRI, PET and clinical evaluation). (Dott. Silvana Franceschetti and Matilde Leonardi and Ludovico Minati)

Correlation studies of Resting state MRI and the different related components with EEG and EP parameters. (BioENG Ludovico Minati and Adrian Andronache)

Studies on  EEG based - Effective connectivity in patients with Disorder of Consciousness. (BioENG Ferruccio Panzica, dott. Silvana Franceschetti)