Dipartimento di Salute Mentale e Fisica

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Giovanni Cirillo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Human Anatomy

My research program focuses the neuro-glial plasticity in central nervous system in health and disease and the neurobiological after effects of non invasive brain stimulation techniques.

«Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine» A. Turing, The Imitation Game.

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Ciro De Luca

Ciro De Luca, PhD

My main interest in neuroscience is the glial-matrix plasticity, with a focus on the neurovascular unit. As a neurologist, my research fields are migraine and cognitive impairment. I am honored to be a in the Scientific Committee of Parkinson’s foundation “Fondazione Antonietta Cirino Onlus”.

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Assunta Virtuoso

Raffaella Cirillo

Raffaella Cirillo, PhD Student

My research focuses on exploring the synaptic homeostasis and adaptability after central nervous system (CNS) insults, investigating the correlation between the modulatory effects of blood coagulation factors and the pathophysiology of the CNS.

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Ivana Allocca

Immacolata Viscovo

Michele Papa

Selected Lab Alumni

Nicola Maggio

Nicola Maggio, MD PhD Student

Currently: Deputy Head at Department of Neurology, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel and Associate Professor at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

https://talpiot.sheba.co.il/dr_nicola_maggio

References

Tissue-transglutaminase in rat and human brain: light and electron immunocytochemical analysis and in situ hybridization study. Maggio N, et al., Brain Res Bull. 2001, 56:173-82.

Reactive astrocytosis and glial glutamate transporter clustering are early changes in a spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 transgenic mouse model. Giovannoni R, Maggio N, et al., Neuron Glia Biol. 2007,3:335-51.

Thrombin regulation of synaptic transmission: implications for seizure onset. Maggio N, et al., Neurobiol Dis. 2013;50:171-8.

Kristina Musholt

Kristina Musholt, visiting Ph.D. Student

Currently: Professor of Cognitive Anthropology at Department of Philosophy, Leipzig University Leipzig, Germany

https://kristinamusholt.com/

References

Neonatal separation stress reduces glial fibrillary acidic protein- and S100beta-immunoreactive astrocytes in the rat medial precentral cortex.

Musholt K, et al., Dev Neurobiol. 2009;69:203-11

Andrea Soddu

Andrea Soddu, Postdoc

Currently: Associate Professor at Brain and Mind Western Interdisciplinary Research Building London, Ontario, Canada

https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/investigators/andrea-soddu.html

References

Reaching across the abyss: recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging and their potential relevance to disorders of consciousness. Soddu A, et al., Prog Brain Res. 2009; 177:261-74.

Identifying the default-mode component in spatial IC analyses of patients with disorders of consciousness. Soddu A, et al., Hum Brain Mapp. 2012; 33778-96.

Resting state activity in patients with disorders of consciousness. Soddu A, etr al., Funct Neurol. 2011 Jan-Mar;26(1):37-43