Ana Luiza Costa Zaninotto

My primary responsibility is to develop studies that are related to mental health in persons who suffer from brain injuries. I am currently investigating neuroimaging biomarkers that predict clinical improvement following traumatic brain injury. My second goal is to detect inflammatory and neuroimaging biomarkers associated with new-onset major depressive disorders following a brain injury. I have been working with tractography and DTI pipelines, and structural analysis including cortical thickness and volume.

My study was in collaboration with the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School My main role was to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to detect brain abnormalities in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with (ALS) and without communication and speech impairments.

My roles included: clinical trial design, and experience co-authoring clinical trial protocols; proficient in Excel, STATA, SPSS; data analysis, interpretation, and presentation of clinical data to inform decision-making and clinical strategy; neuroimaging processing, analysis and interpretation in ALS.

I had a team-science-oriented and data-driven to managing the current clinical trials in the lab. Plan and perform psychological assessments within the clinical trials. The management and application of a 12-channel quantitative EEG were the standard inclusion criteria in most of the studies in the Neuromodulation lab. My main role during that time was to provide double-blind neuromodulatory interventions, including transcranial direct current stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and focused-ultrassound. My roles included: collaborated with leadership team to identify relevant questions and determine best methods of collection; streamlined research processes to meet tight deadlines for multiple projects; completed exhaustive research into Neuromodulatory techniques using databases, physical records and digital resources; interpreted data analysis results to draw inferences and conclusions.