Elena Rossi

• Biomedical engineer
• PhD at Politecnico di Milano

Background: The use of frontal infrared thermography in the diagnosis of primary headaches provided scattering results due to measurement fluctuations and different types of headaches or research protocols. Objective: This study aims to assess the reliability of frontal infrared thermography in healthy individuals and provide a preliminary evalu...

The increasing bulk of chronic diseases requires that patients are continuously monitored, even when they are discharged from the hospital and go home to continue treatments. However, there is still poor integration between hospital patient records and systems supporting patients’ care at home that are mainly based on mobile applications. High-qual...

Daily management of neurodegenerative diseases by electrical neuromodulation techniques requires an integrated health care system for the continuous assistance to the patient. In this scenario, a direct bi-directional exchange of information between the patient's electronic health record (EHR) and patient's personal mobile health apps (mHealth) can...

Background: Mobile health Applications (mHealth Apps) are opening the way to patients' responsible and active involvement with their own healthcare management. However, apart from Apps allowing patient's access to their electronic health records (EHRs), mHealth Apps are currently developed as dedicated "island systems". Objective: Although much...

The emergence of evidence pointing at diet as key risk factor for chronic diseases and at gene-diet interactions as key elements in the interplay between an individual genetic background and his/her lifestyle, pave the way for studies in nutrigenomics. Such studies need an integrated solution to collect, monitor and analyse a large set of data. In...

The Silences of the Archives, the Reknown of the Story. The Martin Guerre affair has been told many times since Jean de Coras and Guillaume Lesueur published their stories in 1561. It is in many ways a perfect intrigue with uncanny resemblance, persuasive deception and a surprizing end when the two Martin stood face to face, memory to memory, befor...

Background: The web-based systems available for multi-centre clinical trials do not combine clinical data collection (Electronic Health Records, EHRs) with signal processing storage and analysis tools. However, in pathophysiological research, the correlation between clinical data and signals is crucial for uncovering the underlying neurophysiologi...

Non-invasive transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) induces changes in spinal cord function in humans. Nonetheless, the current density (J) spatial distributions generated by tsDCS are unknown. This work aimed to estimate the J distributions in the spinal cord during tsDCS. Computational electromagnetics techniques were applied to...

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the cerebellum (or cerebellar tDCS) modulates working memory, changes cerebello-brain interaction, and affects locomotion in humans. Also, the use of tDCS has been proposed for the treatment of disorders characterized by cerebellar dysfunction. Nonetheless, the electric field (E) and current densi...

Introduction Many electrode montages for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are described in literature: attention must be paid on the correct positioning of the electrodes and on their geometry to obtain reproducible results. Also, to make tDCS even more simple and accessible to a large number of subjects, the electrode positioning sho...

This work aimed to estimate the distribution of the electric field and current density generated by cerebellar tDCS using electromagnetics computational techniques applied to a realistic human models of different ages and gender. Results show that the stronger electric field and current density occur mainly in the cerebellar cortex, with a spread t...

Neuroimaging studies suggest that the cerebellum contributes to human cognitive processing, particularly procedural learning. This type of learning is often described as implicit learning and involves automatic, associative, and unintentional learning processes. Our aim was to investigate whether cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a neuromodulatory technique that delivers low intensity, direct current to cortical areas facilitating or inhibiting spontaneous neuronal activity. Aim of this paper is to evaluate how individual anatomical differences may affect the current flow through the human body, particularly in the brain. Th...

This paper investigates the spatial distribution of the electric field and of the current density in the brain tissues induced by transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary motor cortex. A numerical method was applied on a realistic human head model to calculate these field distributions in different brain structures, such as the cortex...