The research project designed by Stefania Coelli, research fellow at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, was selected by the Go for It initiative, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and implemented by the CRUI Foundation.
Go for It has made available to Italian universities 80 research grants with a duration of 12 months to carry out research activities in foreign institutions. The aim of the initiative is to allow a selected number of PhDs to gain professional experience in foreign institutions with an excellent reputation, thus promoting the transfer to Italian companies and research centers of the skills and results achieved abroad.
Stefania Coelli’s research project concerns the characterization of the spatio-temporal dynamics of epileptic networks and took place at the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes in Marseille, France.
By studying the activity of the epileptogenic network with non-invasive techniques, the project aims to improve intervention strategies for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsies. In particular, exploiting a unique dataset of simultaneous stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) and magneto-electroencephalography (MEG) recordings, it is possible to show that methods such as independent component analysis and source reconstruction through beamformers are able to identify the cortical generators of epileptic activity and to reconstruct their network dynamics. Promising results have already been obtained through simulations and on a real dataset. The study has been recently published on NeuroImage.