Publications by Giorgia Giulia Evangelista

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

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

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

Towards patient-tailored interventions for stroke recovery: graph theoretical approaches and modeling of non-invasive brain stimulation

Giorgia Giulia Evangelista

Stroke is a disease that causes the death of precious brain cells that will never grow back and which will affect one in four humans at some point in their life. While therapies and treatments for this debilitating condition are fairly standard, their outc ...

EPFL2022

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

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