Alessandro Panarese
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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Total Citations
806
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About
Alessandro Panarese’s research lies at the intersection of neurorehabilitation, robotics, and systems neuroscience, with a primary focus on stroke recovery. His work bridges fundamental discoveries in brain plasticity with the development of intelligent robotic systems for motor rehabilitation. Panarese has made seminal contributions to understanding how the brain reorganizes after ischemic damage, demonstrating that combined rehabilitative therapies can restore pre-stroke motor patterns by promoting structural and functional rewiring of healthy neuronal networks. His highly cited 2017 review on neuroplastic changes following brain ischemia (243 citations) has become a cornerstone reference in the field. On the engineering side, he has pioneered the use of surface EMG signals for detecting movement onset in upper-limb exoskeletons (155 citations), enabling more intuitive human-robot interfaces. Panarese has also developed innovative robotic platforms for both human patients and rodent models, including systems for quantitative assessment and adaptive training of forelimb function. His work on decoding bipedal locomotion from cortical activity and integrating force feedback for prosthetic control further demonstrates his versatility. Through his interdisciplinary approach, Panarese has significantly advanced personalized, technology-driven neurorehabilitation strategies.
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- 8Decoding bipedal locomotion from the rat sensorimotor cortex40 citations · 2015
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