Doctor Giuseppe Giglia, MD, PhD, Neurologist
I was born in Arco, Trento (Italy) in 1976.
Since my Medicine and Surgery studies I focused my interest on cognition and brain physiology using Non Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) technologies.
I graduated cum Laude in 2002 with an experimental thesis on the topic of NIBS as experimental treatment of drug resistant epilepsy, published on J Neurol(2003)250:761–762.
Later I continued my research activity also during Neurology speciality course, gaining more knowledge on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a form of NIBS, with the main topic of cortical physiology, ranging from general rules of cortical plasticity, human motor system, human language, neurolinguistics and visuospatial attention lateralization. Exploiting my double nature of clinical neurologist and experimental neuroscientist, I made experiments in both healthy subjects and patients affected by several neurological conditions. My Neurology Speciality Thesis (cum Laude in 2007) was focused on the role of posterior parietal cortex on physiology of reading in healthy subjects.
During My PhD, I increased my expertise in the field of NIBS, using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), and also in the field of Neuroimaging and 3D Neuronavigation, that I used for my thesis (cum Laude) on the role of Posterior Parietal cortex on action-perception models of human language.
During the same period I gained experience in experimental neurophysiology (EMG, brain stimulation) in animal models (mainly rats).
Later I attended a post-doc position at the University of Palermo with a research project on neurophysiology of Pain Perception in healthy subjects
I also attended several advanced courses on neurophysiology (EMG and related techniques, EP), on neurodegenerative diseases, and very recently in the field of artificial simulation of neurons, microcircuits and whole brain connectomics. I spent 5 years as Honorary Researcher at Maastricht University, department of Cognitive Neurosciences.
I’m now an Associate Professor of Human Neurophsyiology at the Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo
As I’m also a maker, with skills in Arduino programming and 3D printing, I’m now trying to use both in my research ad teaching activity
I’ve coauthored about 40 papers on peer reviewed journals, and more than 80
proceedings at national and international congresses.