Publications by authors named "Giulia Berto"

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  • This study aims to create a prognostic model to predict recovery times for concussion patients, benefiting early treatment interventions worldwide.
  • The research involved analyzing diffusion-weighted MRI data from collegiate athletes who suffered concussions, categorizing recoveries into early and late groups based on their return-to-play timelines.
  • Advanced data processing techniques were used to assess microstructural properties of brain tracts, with statistical analyses employed to evaluate their correlation with recovery outcomes, ultimately using logistic regression for classification.
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  • Neuroscience is focused on improving standardization and tools for better transparency in research, but this has made data handling more complex and less accessible.
  • The platform brainlife.io aims to make neuroimaging research more accessible by offering tools for data standardization, management, and processing, while also keeping track of data history.
  • The study evaluates brainlife.io's effectiveness in terms of validity, reliability, reproducibility, replicability, and scientific usefulness using data from four modalities and over 3,200 participants.
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Neuroscience research has expanded dramatically over the past 30 years by advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, the complexity of the data pipeline has also increased, hindering access to FAIR data analysis to portions of the worldwide research community. was developed to reduce these burdens and democratize modern neuroscience research across institutions and career levels.

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Virtual delineation of white matter bundles in the human brain is of paramount importance for multiple applications, such as pre-surgical planning and connectomics. A substantial body of literature is related to methods that automatically segment bundles from diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) data indirectly, by exploiting either the idea of connectivity between regions or the geometry of fiber paths obtained with tractography techniques, or, directly, through the information in volumetric data. Despite the remarkable improvement in automatic segmentation methods over the years, their segmentation quality is not yet satisfactory, especially when dealing with datasets with very diverse characteristics, such as different tracking methods, bundle sizes or data quality.

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Pain is a common and disabling symptom in patients with stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS), cerebral palsy (CP), spinal cord injury (SCI) and other conditions associated with spasticity, but data on its prevalence, and natural history, as well as guidelines on its assessment and treatment in the field of neurorehabilitation, are largely lacking. The Italian Consensus Conference on Pain in Neurorehabilitation (ICCPN) searched and evaluated current evidence on the frequency, evolution, predictors, assessment, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of pain in patients with stroke, MS, CP, SCI and other conditions associated with spasticity. Patients with stroke, MS, CP, and SCI may suffer from pain related to spasticity, as well as nociceptive and neuropathic pain (NP), whose prevalence, natural history, impact on functional outcome, and predictors are only partially known.

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Objective: To investigate the accuracy of manual needle placement for injection of botulinum toxin type A into the forearm muscles of adults with spastic flexed wrist and clenched fist as a consequence of stroke.

Design: Prospective clinical study.

Patients: A total of 41 adults with chronic stroke who were scheduled to receive botulinum toxin type A injection into the following forearm muscles: flexor carpi radialis, flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor digitorum profundus.

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Objective: To find more accurate indices that could affect decisions in spasticity treatment by investigating the relation between ultrasonographic, electromyographic, and clinical parameters of the gastrocnemius muscle in adults with spastic equinus after stroke.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: University hospitals.

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