Davide Reato

Experimental and Theoretical research on the effects of low-amplitude electric fields on neuronal network activity

Education

2002-2005: Bachelor in Physics, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
2005-2007: Master in Physics, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
2008- : PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, USA

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My research

I am working for Professor Marom Bikson and Professor Lucas C. Parra in the Neural Engineering Lab of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City College of New York. My research focuses on the effect of electrical stimulation on the dynamics of neuronal network activity. I am interested, in general, in network phenomena like physiological and pathological neuronal oscillations from both an experimental (electrophysiology) and a theoretical point of view (modeling and computer simulations using MATLAB and Python). I am a Linux user (minimal Ubuntu + LXDE or XFCE).

 

Some of my current projects are:

 

Some of my small and old (or very old) projects:

  • MATLAB software for focal tDCS stimulation [the following video, 2009]


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Fun code:

  • SoundImg: few matlab lines to convert an image to a sound. The spectrogram of the sound is the original image.....:D [2008]
  • Circle Pcolor: few matlab lines to create a kind of imagesc plot with colored circles [2008]
  • Web links: few python lines to start connecting to a webpage and then jumping randomly to one of the links in the page and so on [2009]
  • Sound + Noise: python code to create two sounds. One is a pure tone, the other is a pure tone + white noise. The SNR of the noise changes and a listener is asked to discriminate the two auditory stimuli. The performances are then quantified for different SNR.



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Last updated: May 2010