Current Exchange Fellows
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Beatrice Campo
Project Summary: This project focuses on the development and optimization of an ingestible neuromodulation device capable of reading from and stimulating the peripheral nervous system. By delivering targeted afferent signals from the gastrointestinal...
Davide Micheletti
Project Summary: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, affecting millions of
people worldwide. Although approved therapies can slow disease progression, they are most
effective when initiated before widespread tau accumulation and...
Shiu-Cheng Wang
Project Summary: Intuitive physics studies how we naturally reason about the physical world around us. The mental computations underlying this ability remain contested. A leading current proposal is that humans have a "physical game engine" that models...
Penghui Du
Project Summary: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a standard treatment for depression, with target location traditionally determined by empirical rules or group-level functional connectivity combined with individual structural MRI. However...
Alexis Cogne
Project Summary: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide, with upper-limb motor impairments affecting a large proportion of survivors. As populations age and the prevalence of risk factors increases, the incidence of stroke is expected...
Gabriele Dall'Aglio
Project Summary: X-linked dystonia–parkinsonism (XDP) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder found almost exclusively in the Philippines, caused by a mutation in the TAF1 gene. The disease devastates the striatum (particularly medium spiny neurons) leading...
Riccardo Carpineto
Project Summary: Voluntary movements, which are actions initiated without direct external stimuli, remain a central question in motor neuroscience. Unlike reactive movements, the timing of self-initiated actions must emerge from internal neural dynamics...