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XXXVIII Ciclo di dottorato

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Formazione di terzo livello di alta qualità: di ricercatori nell'ambito delle neuroscienze, dell'imaging con particolare riguardo al neuroimaging funzionale; di figure professionali di alto profilo nell'ambito della diagnostica per immagini; di figure professionali di alto profilo nell'ambito della ricerca e sviluppo di strumentazione per la diagnostica per immagini.

Argomenti generali del Dottorato

Metodi e modelli per l'analisi di immagini biomediche; Modelli computazionali per le neuroscienze; Principi fisici e tecnologia per lo sviluppo di strumentazione innovativa per l'imaging biomedico. Studio degli approcci di genomica, trascrittomica, epigenomica e interattomica e loro applicazioni nella caratterizzazione funzionale del connettoma neuronale in condizioni normali e patologiche. Protocolli applicativi integranti le discipline neurologiche, psichiatriche e dell'imaging diagnostico, per lo studio delle patologie del Sistema Nervoso Centrale. Studio della natura e dell'architettura delle funzioni sensoriali, cognitive e comportamentali attraverso l'integrazione dei metodi della psicologia sperimentale e del neuroimaging.

Attività di ricerca in corso

Area dei metodi di analisi, della modellizzazione e dello sviluppo di strumentazione

• Advanced MRI of human brain function, physiology, and metabolism in health and disease (R. Wise)
• Affective computing and human-machine interaction (A. Merla)
• Brain networks and oscillations (L. Marzetti)
• Computational psychophysiology (A. Merla)
• Forward models of White Matter for DWI tissue microstructure analysis (C. Del Gratta)
• Infrared imaging for neurosciences and clinical sciences (A. Merla)
• Magnetoencephalography using commercial Optically Pumped Magnetometers: preliminary studies using commercial devices (S. Della Penna)
• Methods and applications of fMRI techniques (BOLD, ASL, others): from vascular biomarkers to brain metabolism (A. Ferretti)
• Methods for functional and effective connectivity analysis (L. Marzetti)
• Methods for neuroimaging with Magnetoencephalography (V. Pizzella)
• Methods for real-time signal processing (V. Pizzella)
• Methods for the analysis of MEG connectivity dynamics in a multilayer framework (S. Della Penna)
• Methods for the analysis of spatiotemporal connectivity patterns across conditions (S. Della Penna)
• Microstates in EEG (F. Zappasodi)
• Nonlinear dynamical analysis of EEG and MEG (F. Zappasodi)
• Optimization of a very low field MRI system for the quantitative analysis of biological tissues (S. Della Penna, C. Del Gratta)
• Time-frequency analysis of EEG data (C. Del Gratta)

Area delle Neuroscienze e della Psicologia

• Affective and cognitive mediators/moderators of the moral rebels evaluation (whistleblowing) (F.R. Alparone)
• Anatomo-functional correlates of neuropsychological disorders (G. Committeri)
• Auditory perception (A. Brancucci)
• Behavioural and neurofunctional correlates of intertemporal decisions (G. Committeri)
• Behavioural and neurofunctional relationship between spatial navigation and declarative memory (G. Committeri)
• Brain-heart interactions and their relevance for cognition and behavior (M. Costantini)
• Characterization of the functional development of the neonatal brain via electroencephalographic data analysis (S. Comani)
• Cognition and Emotion in physical activity (C. Robazza)
• Crossmodal perception (L. Tommasi)
• Effectiveness of psychotherapy (controlled and randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses) (A. Saggino)
• Effects of psychotherapy on the central nervous system (A. Saggino)
• Evolutionary roots of socioemotional bonds in brain and behaviour (L. Tommasi)
• Feeling the body: neural underpinnings of the sense of bodily self (M. Costantini)
• Heartbeats modulate behavioral and cortical inhibition (M. Costantini)
• Hemispheric asymmetries (A. Brancucci)
• Higher cognitive processes in physical activity and sport (C. Robazza)
• How the body impacts on the mechanisms of self-regulation (F. Ferri)
• Human lateralization of perception, cognition, and emotion (L. Tommasi)
• Individual and group moderators of the psychophysiological response to  direct and vicarious ostracism events (F.R. Alparone)
• Individual differences in personality and cognitive abilities (A. Saggino)
• Matching between the individual affective/cognitive orientation and  affective/ cognitive content of the persuasive message (F.R. Alparone)
• Matching between the individual affective/cognitive orientation and the warmth/competence evaluation in social perception (F.R. Alparone)
• Mental time travel in episodic and autobiographical memory (C. Sestieri)
• Multimodal study of the neuro-psycho-physiological correlates of human movement during interactive motor tasks (S. Comani)
• Multistable perception (A. Brancucci)
• Neural correlates of consciousness (A. Brancucci)
• Neural oscillations and temporal sensitivity (M. Costantini)
• Neuroscience and human intelligence (A. Saggino)
• Performance optimization in sport (C. Robazza)
• Psychometric measurements of individual differences (empathy, psychosis-relevant experiences) and the perception of self and others (S. Ebisch);
• Temporal sensitivity and phenomenal contents (M. Costantini)
• The link between altered self-experience and self-other relationship (S. Ebisch);
• The multidimensional self: intrinsic and extrinsic self-processing in the healthy and pathological brain (S. Ebisch).
• The neural bases of memory for complex events (C. Sestieri)
• The neural bases of visuospatial attention (C. Sestieri)
• The sense of touch in social interaction (S. Ebisch);
• The social self: brain imaging of self-other similarity and self-other distinction (S. Ebisch);
• The space of the self: from peripersonal space representation to self-localization (F. Ferri)
• The relationship between real and mental navigation (C. Sestieri)
• Visual perception of faces and emotions (L. Tommasi)

Area della Biologia cellulare e molecolare e della Genetica

• Biological basis of immunity related disorders (E. Di Carlo)
• Cancer stem cells in the onset and progression of malignant tumors (E. Di Carlo)
• Current and emerging biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognostic classification of tumors (E. Di Carlo)
• Epigenetics and risk of non communicable diseases (L. Stuppia)
• Genetics and behavior (L. Stuppia)
• Genetics and hereditary Cancers (L. Stuppia)
• Nanovector-based targeted drug delivery systems for solid tumors (E. Di Carlo)
• Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (L. Stuppia)
• Tumor histopathology and immunology (E. Di Carlo)

Area della Neurologia clinica e della Psichiatria

• Clinical applications of fMRI (M. Caulo)
• Development of effective paradigms for presurgical mapping (C. Sestieri)
• Investigating brain function, structure and plasticity in the healthy brain and in neuroinflammation using advanced neuroimaging methods (V. Tomassini)
• Multimodal imaging of brain tumors (M. Caulo)
• Ionic and molecular determinants of neurodegeneration (S. Sensi)
• fMRI-based functional signatures of conversion to dementia (S. Sensi, Delli Pizzi)
• MRI-bases structural and functional investigations of subcortical relay stations (thalamus and cerebellum) in the modulation of behavioral and non-behavioral Parkinson’s disease symptoms and related dementias (M. Onofrj, S. Sensi, R. Franciotti, S. Delli Pizzi)
• Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases (S. Sensi, A. Granzotto)
• Machine learning-based approaches for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative processes (S. Sensi, R. Franciotti, M. Onofrj)
• fMRI-based functional correlates of psychedelic compounds (S. Sensi, M. Onofrj, G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio)
• Virtual-Reality based methods in neurorehabilitation (S. Sensi, M. Onofrj)
• Amyloid-independent therapeutic approaches in dementia (S. Sensi, M. Onofrj)
• Integration of advanced MR and PET imaging techniques to identify pathological substrates of functional brain network reorganization in patients with Mild Cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease (S. Sensi, S. Delli Pizzi)
• Magnetic resonance spectroscopy for assessing neurochemical correlates of morphofunctional alterations and clinical symptoms in age-related neurodegenerative disease (S. Sensi, M. Onofrj, S. Delli Pizzi)
• Psychopathological effects of Novel Psychoactive Substances (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio; M. Pettorruso)
• fMRI-correlates of rTMS in Cocaine Use Disorder (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio,M. Pettorruso)
• Accelerated rTMS in Major Depression: efficacy, safety, and biomarkers (M. Pettorruso, G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio)
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio, M. Pettorruso)
• Cognitive remediation in Major Depression (M. Di Giannantonio, G. Martinotti, M. Pettorruso)
• Psychopathological features and neurobiological correlates of Gambling Disorder (M. Pettorruso, G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio)
• Accelerater rTMS in the treatment of Gambling Disorder (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio, M. Pettorruso)
• Safety and efficacy of Esketamine in Treatment Resistant Depression (M. Di Giannantonio, G. Martinotti, M. Pettorruso)
• Vortioxetine and SSRIs in the elderly (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio; M. Pettorruso)
• Internet and Gaming Disorders in adolescents and young adults: psychopatological features (G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio; M. Pettorruso)

Dottorato di Ricerca in Neuroscienze e Imaging – Elenco degli insegnamenti

TIROCINI

Relevant ERC Panels

• PE1_14 Statistics
• PE1_17 Numerical analysis
• PE1_18 Scientific computing and data processing
• PE1_20 Application of mathematics in sciences
• PE2_6 Electromagnetism
• PE3_16 Physics of biological systems
• PE6_10 Web and information systems, database systems, information retrieval and digital libraries, data fusion
• PE6_11 Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing
• PE6_12 Scientific computing, simulation and modelling tools
• PE7_7 Signal processing
• PE7_8 Networks (communication networks, sensor networks, networks of robots, etc.)
• LS2_1 Molecular genetics, reverse genetics, forward genetics, genome editing
• LS2_5 Epigenetics and gene regulation
• LS2_6 Genomics (e.g. comparative genomics, functional genomics)
• LS2_8 Transcriptomics
• LS4_6 Fundamental mechanisms underlying cancer
• LS5_2 Systems neuroscience and computational neuroscience (e.g. neural networks, neural modelling)
• LS5_4 Sensation and perception (e.g. sensory systems, sensory processing, pain)
• LS5_5 Neural bases of cognitive processes (e.g. memory, learning, attention)
• LS5_6 Neural bases of behaviour (e.g. sleep, consciousness, addiction)
• LS5_7 Neurological disorders (e.g. neurodegenerative diseases, seizures)
• LS5_8 Psychiatric disorders (e.g. affective and anxiety disorders, autism, psychotic disorders)
• LS6_4 Immunological mechanisms in disease (e.g. autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation immunology, tumour immunology)
• LS7_1 Imaging for medical diagnosis
• LS7_2 Genetic tools for medical diagnosis
• LS7_3 Other medical technologies for diagnosis and monitoring of diseases
• LS7_6 Radiation therapy
• SH4_1 Cognitive basis of human development and education, developmental disorders; comparative cognition
• SH4_2 Personality and social cognition; emotion
• SH4_3 Clinical and health psychology
• SH4_4 Neuropsychology
• SH4_5 Attention, perception, action, consciousness
• SH4_6 Learning, memory; cognition in ageing
• SH4_7 Reasoning, decision-making; intelligence

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