Vera Gramigna, PhD., Postdoctoral fellow

Vera

Vera Gramigna was born in Cetraro (Italy) in 1980. In 2007 she received her master degree in mechanical Engineering from University of Calabria (Italy). In 2011 she obtained a PhD in Biomedical and Computer Engineering discussing a thesis with title Modeling of Cardiovascular System: Analysis of Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics, Prediction Methodology of Specific Diseases and Planning of Surgical Interventions. During post-graduate period she continued entertaining interests on biorobotics at “Biorobotic Institute”-Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, working on two projects: Analysis of the biomechanical behaviour of colon tissue: experimental and numerical approach and Novel biological/biohybrid prostheses for the ossicular chain: fabrication feasibility and preliminary functional characterization. In the 2014, at the Institute of BioImaging and Molecular Physiology in Catanzaro, scientific interest has veered strongly towards the cognitive neuroscience. She is working with the team of Prof. Aldo Quattrone (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aldo_Quattrone) on a project entitled “Multimodal Neuroimaging Correlates of Motor Disorders”, under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Cerasa (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Cerasa). She is now Post Doc visiting scientist at McGill University. This exchange is part of the collaboration with McGill University in the context of her ongoing postdoctoral scholarship.

Contact Info

  • Multimodal Functional Imaging Laboratory
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering , McGill University
  • Address: 332 Duff Medical Building, 3775 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada
  • Phone: (514) 398–1678
  • Fax: (514) 398–7461
  • Email:veragramigna@yahoo.it; vera.gramigna@mail.mcgill.ca
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Research Interests

Her main research concentration is application of near infrared spectroscopy methodology to the study of neuronal activity and hemodynamic processes in neurodegenerative diseases. Primarily, she is interested in the use of NIRS technique to clarify the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying Levodopa induced Dyskinesia. Currently she is working on the analysis of NIRS data using different approaches.

  • Scientific grant supervisor: Prof. Aldo Quattrone
  • Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Cerasa

Publications

Journal Articles

Gramigna, Vera and Pellegrino, Giovanni and Cerasa, Antonio and Cutini, Simone and Vasta, Roberta and Olivadese, Giuseppe and Martino, Iolanda and Quattrone, Aldo, “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Gait Disorders: Is It Time to Begin?”, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2017)

Roberta Vasta, Antonio Augimeri, Antonio Cerasa, Salvatore Nigro, Vera Gramigna, Matteo Nonnis, Federico Rocca, Giancarlo Zito, Aldo Quattrone, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; ‘ ’Hippocampal subfield atrophies in converted and non-converted Mild-Cognitive Impairments Patients by a Markov random fields algorithm”, Current Alzheimer Research; in press