SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Scientific Direction
Nereo Bresolin, MD is the Scientific Director of Institute
“E.Medea”
Secretary: Silvana Molteni, tel +39 031 877 330 -332 - 333,
Fax +39 031 877 499
email: medea@bp.lnf.it
Research Areas
Neuropathology - Supervisor:
Renato Borgatti, MD
Brain dysmorphisms; congenital CNS – PNS pathologies;
epilepsy; rare syndromes; degenerative diseases – spinocerebellar
degenerations; neurosensory disorders
Neuromotor Rehabilitation and
Functional Neuropsychology - Supervisors: Anna Carla
Turconi, MD
Rehabilitation of infantile cerebral palsy; rehabilitation
of neuromuscular diseases; rehabilitation of acquired brain
lesions; study and rehabilitation of spinal and musculoskeletal
disorders; orthopaedic rehabilitation post-surgery; rehabilitation
of congenital and acquired bone marrow lesions; rehabilitation
of neurological bladder dysfunction
Psychopathology of Development,
Language and Learning - Supervisor: Massimo Molteni,
MD
Cognitive disorders and learning disabilities; clinical psychology;
neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; clinical and biological
psychiatry
Neurophysiopathology –
Neuroradiology - Supervisor: Claudio Zucca, MD
Focal symptomatic epilepsy; atypical idiopathic generalized
epilepsy and cryptogenic generalized epilepsy; medical intractable
epilepsy
Neurobiology - Supervisor:
Maria Teresa Bassi, PhD
Neurodegenerative disease- molecular genetics and cellular
models; neuromuscular disorders; rare diseases; chromosomal
abnormalities and diseases; molecular diagnostic tests; cytogenetics
and molecular cytogenetics; blood and biological materials
banks; clinical pharmacology
Bioengineering - Supervisor:
Gianluigi Reni, M.Sc
Error analysis; virtual reality; application of neuroimaging
techniques; HW and SW development and aids; development, experimentation
and assessment of electro-medical devices; tele-medicine;
support technologies for disabilities
Bioinformatics - Supervisors:
Manuela Sironi, M.A
Development of computational methods devoted to the analysis
of splicing regulation, to the identification of splicing
regulatory motifs and to the prediction of splicing mutation
outcome; development of comparative genomics approaches to
study the evolution and function of noncoding sequences; application
of population genetics methods to identify and characterize
functional gene variants genomewide.
Organisation of Health
Services - Supervisor: Damiano Rivolta, M.Sc
Testing and evaluation, including financial, of online organisation
systems in healthcare, testing online integration and organisational
models for medical and social/medical interventions; development,
testing and evaluation of organisational models for the continuity
of care; testing and evaluation of the costs-benefits of telemedicine
and telecare systems; development and testing of an information
system; effects of the methods of applying the remuneration
system in terms of the efficacy / efficiency of hospital and
non-hospital based rehabilitation services; application systems
for disability and prognostic levels of rehabilitation treatment;
management of data and the computerisation of clinical, diagnostic
and treatment data.
Bioethics-
Supervisor: Leonardo Lenzi
Study of ethical topics connected to neurorehabilitation
treatment, particularly in infants/children, adolescents and
young adults.
Analysis of informed consent procedures and communication
about the prognosis to the parental couple.
Ethical aspects of genetic counselling and the correct management
of predictive genetic information in relation to the family
context.
Criteria and methods of ethical approach to a multiethnic
population.
Study of the anthropological implications of scientific research
in the field of biomedicine and biotechnology, in a multicultural
dimension.
Ethical guidelines for the economic/financial and managerial/organisational
profiles of healthcare policies in the sector involved.
06/29/2010
- © I.R.C.C.S. Medea
|
Italian