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About
Emanuela Formaggio is a neuroscientist and rehabilitation researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of brain oscillatory dynamics, electroencephalography (EEG), and robot-assisted neurorehabilitation. Her research has significantly advanced understanding of how the brain reorganizes itself in response to robotic and exoskeleton-assisted movement therapies, with particular focus on stroke recovery and motor plasticity. Formaggio's most influential contribution — accumulating 124 citations — demonstrated that event-related desynchronization patterns differ meaningfully across active, passive, and imagined movements during robot-assisted hand therapy, providing crucial insights for optimizing rehabilitation protocols. Building on this foundation, she extended her investigations to bilateral arm training, lower limb rehabilitation, and exoskeleton-assisted gait, consistently pairing behavioral motor recovery measures with quantitative EEG analysis to uncover the neural correlates driving functional improvement. Her work on EEG coherence and time-frequency modulation has helped establish rigorous neurophysiological frameworks for evaluating cortical reorganization in chronic stroke patients, including those with somatosensory deficits. More recently, she has explored neuromuscular plasticity and movement complexity during exoskeleton training in both clinical and healthy populations. With a growing body of cited work spanning over a decade, Formaggio stands as a significant voice in evidence-based, technology-driven neurorehabilitation research.
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- 2Quantitative EEG Evaluation During Robot-Assisted Foot Movement59 citations · 2016
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