Joy Grifoni

• Professor
• PhD at Italian National Research Council

This perspective article addresses the critical and up-to-date problem of task-specific musician’s dystonia (MD) from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Theoretically, MD is explored as a result of impaired sensorimotor interplay across different brain circuits, supported by the most frequently cited scientific evidence—each referenced do...

According to the WHO (World Health Organization), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an elective therapy to treat people with post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). In line with the personalization of therapeutic strategies, through this pilot study, we assessed in people suffering from the effects of trauma the feasibility, s...

Abstract: Objectives: Fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS) is a frequent and invalidating symptom, which can be relieved by non-invasive neuromodulation, which presents only negligible side effects. A 5-day transcranial direct-current stimulation, 15 min per day, anodically targeting the somatosensory representation of the whole body against a large...

Objectives: The homology of hemispheric cortical areas plays a crucial role in brain functionality. Here, we extend this concept to the homology of the dominant and non-dominant hemi-bodies, investigating the relationship of the two corticospinal tracts (CSTs). The evoked responses provide an estimate of the number of in-phase recruitments via the...

The neuronal functional connectivity is a complex and non-stationary phenomenon creating dynamic networks synchronization determining the brain states and needed to produce tasks. Here, as a measure that quantifies the synchronization between the neuronal electrical activity of two brain regions, we used the normalized compression distance (NCD), w...

Our body-brain system, under physiological conditions, interacts adaptively with the environment. Our central hypothesis is that the triadic principle of feedback-synchrony-plasticity (FeeSyCy, Figure 1) governs the adaptive capacity of the body-brain system. In this opinion, with the perspective goal of contributing to the fight against disorders...

Physiological movement develops on the basis of sensorimotor integration through synchronisation between the copy of signals sent to the effector muscles and the incoming flow of sensory information. Our aim is to study corticomuscular coherence (CMC), the most widely used measure of synchronization between brain and muscle electrical activities, i...