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Emilia Conti is a leading researcher in stroke rehabilitation and neural plasticity, whose work bridges the gap between brain rewiring and functional motor recovery. Her primary research areas include post-stroke neurorehabilitation, optogenetic stimulation, and cortical activity mapping. Conti’s most impactful contribution, published in 2019 with 82 citations, demonstrated that combined rehabilitation promotes the recovery of structural and functional features in healthy neuronal networks after stroke, providing crucial evidence linking brain rewiring to motor improvement. She further advanced the field by showing that pairing optogenetic stimulation with motor training significantly enhances functional recovery and perilesional cortical activity (2021, 28 citations). Her 2020 study identified restoration of motor-evoked cortical activity as a distinguishing feature of the most effective rehabilitation therapies. Conti has also pioneered the use of red-shifted functional indicators for wide-field imaging of cortical neuronal activity during motor tasks, enabling deeper tissue observation. Her work is instrumental in developing targeted, evidence-based rehabilitation strategies that leverage neural plasticity to maximize recovery after stroke.
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