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Lorella Battelli

Italian Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School

Position

Research Faculty or equivalent

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Noninvasive brain stimulation, tRNS, TMS, visual attention, cognitive rehabilitation, perceptual learning, stroke recovery, cortical blindness, visual neglect

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Since 2008 I have been a Research Scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology and assistant professor the Harvard Medical School. My main research interest is central visual processing, particularly the role of the parietal lobe. My lab combines studies with cerebral lesioned patients as well as noninvasive brain stimulation (TMS and tRNS) and fMRI to understand the neuronal mechanisms underlying visual attention. Most recently, my lab has employed TMS to treat attentional deficits in patients with parietal stroke and tRNS to treat cortical blindness.