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Resting-State Cortico-Cerebellar Connectivity Correlates with Post-Stroke Motor Recovery - A Prospective Functional MRI Study

Elena Beanato, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

Cerebellar functional and structural connectivity are likely related to motor function after stroke. Less is known about motor recovery, which is defined as a gain of function between two time points, and about the involvement of the cerebellum. Fifteen pa ...

2025

Pathway-dependent Brain Stimulation Responses Indicate Motion Processing Integrity After Stroke

Elena Beanato, Michele Bevilacqua, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet, Pauline Menoud, Fabienne Windel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Homonymous hemianopia (HH), a common visual impairment resulting from occipital lobe lesions, affects a significant number of stroke survivors. Intensive perceptual training can foster recovery, possibly by enhancing surviving visual pathways. This study e ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2025

Brain Oscillatory Modes as a Proxy of Stroke Recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Elena Beanato, Julia Brügger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Background Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability, making the search for successful rehabilitation treatment one of the most important public health issues. A better understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying impairment and recovery is ...

SAGE Publications2025

Precision non-invasive brain stimulation: an in silico pipeline for personalized control of brain dynamics

Elena Beanato, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

Objective. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) offers therapeutic benefits for various brain disorders. Personalization may enhance these benefits by optimizing stimulation parameters for individual subjects. Approach. We present a computational pipeline ...

2025

Noninvasive modulation of the hippocampal-entorhinal complex during spatial navigation in humans

Olaf Blanke, Elena Beanato, Hyukjun Moon, Esra Neufeld, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Baptiste Gauthier, Traian Popa, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Emanuela De Falco, Pauline Menoud, Fabienne Windel

Because of the depth of the hippocampal-entorhinal complex (HC-EC) in the brain, understanding of its role in spatial navigation via neuromodulation was limited in humans. Here, we aimed to better elucidate this relationship in healthy volunteers, using tr ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2024

Non-invasive stimulation of the human striatum disrupts reinforcement learning of motor skills

Elena Beanato, Esra Neufeld, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Traian Popa, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Julie Duqué, Fabienne Windel

Reinforcement feedback can improve motor learning, but the underlying brain mechanisms remain underexplored. In particular, the causal contribution of specific patterns of oscillatory activity within the human striatum is unknown. To address this question, ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Stroke Recovery–Related Changes in Cortical Reactivity Based on Modulation of Intracortical Inhibition

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Elena Beanato, Takuya Morishita, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

BACKGROUND: Cortical excitation/inhibition dynamics have been suggested as a key mechanism occurring after stroke. Their supportive or maladaptive role in the course of recovery is still not completely understood. Here, we used transcranial m ...

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)2024

Safety, tolerability and blinding efficiency of non-invasive deep transcranial temporal interference stimulation: first experience from more than 250 sessions

Elena Beanato, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Fabienne Windel, Emma Marie D Stiennon

Objective. Selective neuromodulation of deep brain regions has for a long time only been possible through invasive approaches, because of the steep depth-focality trade-off of conventional non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques. Approach. An appr ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Noninvasive deep brain stimulation to modulate human behavior by means of transcranial temporal interference electrical stimulation

Elena Beanato

All functions we use in our everyday life depend on a complex interplay between both cortical and subcortical brain areas, communicating in between each others. When a region is affected by either an accident, aging or neurodegenerative diseases, the whole ...

EPFL2023

Novel personalized treatment strategy for patients with chronic stroke with severe upper-extremity impairment: The first patient of the AVANCER trial

Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Andrea Crema, Elena Beanato, Claudia Bigoni, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet

Background: Around 25% of patients who have had a stroke suffer from severe upper-limb impairment and lack effective rehabilitation strategies. The AVANCER proof-of-concept clinical trial (NCT04448483) tackles this issue through an intensive and personaliz ...

CELL PRESS2023

Differential Impact of Brain Network Efficiency on Poststroke Motor and Attentional Deficits

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Philip Egger, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Background:Most studies on stroke have been designed to examine one deficit in isolation; yet, survivors often have multiple deficits in different domains. While the mechanisms underlying multiple-domain deficits remain poorly understood, network-theoretic ...

2023

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning

Elena Beanato, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Esra Neufeld, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Chang-Hyun Park, Traian Popa, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Pauline Menoud, Fabienne Windel

The stimulation of deep brain structures has thus far only been possible with invasive methods. Transcranial electrical temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) is a novel, noninvasive technology that might overcome this limitation. The initial proof-of-co ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Toward individualized medicine in stroke-The TiMeS project: Protocol of longitudinal, multi-modal, multi-domain study in stroke

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Elena Beanato, Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Traian Popa, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Despite recent improvements, complete motor recovery occurs in < 15% of stroke patients. To improve the therapeutic outcomes, there is a strong need to tailor treatments to each individual patient. However, there is a lack of knowledge concerning the preci ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Evaluating reproducibility and subject-specificity of microstructure-informed connectivity

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Tom Hilbert, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Gian Franco Piredda, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Chang-Hyun Park

Tractography enables identifying and evaluating the healthy and diseased brain's white matter pathways from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging data. As previous evaluation studies have reported significant false-positive estimation biases, recen ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

A Novel Patient-Tailored, Cumulative Neurotechnology-Based Therapy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation in Severely Impaired Chronic Stroke Patients: The AVANCER Study Protocol

Andrea Crema, Elena Beanato, Claudia Bigoni, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet

Effective, patient-tailored rehabilitation to restore upper-limb motor function in severely impaired stroke patients is still missing. If suitably combined and administered in a personalized fashion, neurotechnologies offer a large potential to assist reha ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Variability and reproducibility of multi-echo T2 relaxometry: Insights from multi-site, multi-session and multi-subject MRI acquisitions

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Alessandro Daducci, Tom Hilbert, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Gian Franco Piredda, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Thomas Yu, Chang-Hyun Park

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) can increase the specificity and sensitivity of conventional weighted MRI to underlying pathology by comparing meaningful physical or chemical parameters, measured in physical units, with normative values acqu ...

2022

Multifocal stimulation of the cerebro-cerebellar loop during the acquisition of a novel motor skill

Elena Beanato, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Chang-Hyun Park

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-based interventions for augmenting motor learning are gaining interest in systems neuroscience and clinical research. Current approaches focus largely on monofocal motorcortical stimulation. Innovative stimula ...

Nature Research2021

The structural connectome and motor recovery after stroke: predicting natural recovery

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Philip Egger, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Chang-Hyun Park

Stroke patients vary considerably in terms of outcomes: some patients present ‘natural’ recovery proportional to their initial impairment (fitters), while others do not (non-fitters). Thus, a key challenge in stroke rehabilitation is to identify individual ...

2021

Disconnectomics of the Rich Club Impacts Motor Recovery After Stroke

Philip Egger, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Chang-Hyun Park

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Structural brain networks possess a few hubs, which are not only highly connected to the rest of the brain but are also highly connected to each other. These hubs, which form a rich-club, play a central role in global brain organiza ...

2021