Clinical Neuroscience
Associate professor in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (MEDS-19/B)
School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca
Workplace:
Istituti Clinici Zucchi Hospital Piazza della Madonnina 1, Carate Brianza (Monza-Brianza) – Italy. Telephone/Fax/: +39-0362-986205/+39-0362-986
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0448-4693
Main activities and responsibilities: from 2008 until 2019, direction of Cognitive Neurorehabilitation Unit-Istituti Clinici Zucchi, Carate Brianza (Monza-Brianza).
From 2020 to present : head of the Department of Neurorehabilitation Unit-Istituti Clinici Zucchi, Carate Brianza (Monza-Brianza).
Diagnostic and Clinical competences: Neuropsychological deficits, AIDS-dementia-complex, Neurodegenerative pathologies, Neurorehabilitation
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Subjects of expertise
- Neurological diagnosis
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Neuropsichological rehabilitation
Relevant skills
- tDCS applications
- neuropsychological evaluation
- neuropsyichological rehabilitation
SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR PhD PROJECTS
- Use of tDCS (transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) for the rehabilitation of hemianopsia, With my team, we developed a restorative rehabilitation strategy that includes cognitive training associated with tDCS for visual deficits rehabilitation.
- The role of balance in autistic specter patients the other analyze the development of instrumental supportive respiratory strategies in the context of CNS neurological pathologies causing dysarthia and dysphonia.