Modulating brain plasticity in stroke recovery: Investigating rTMS and BCI in clinical populations

Can neurotechnology help us modulate brain plasticity to benefit clinical populations? And if so, which are the mechanisms that underlie its effect?

These are the questions that I address in my PhD thesis. I focus on the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and EEG-guided brain computer interface (BCI).

For this, I collaborate with Alexander Grygorian, PhD, to inspect correlates of functional plasticity after BCI, and with Anastasia Asmolova, MSc, to explore the structural correlates of brain plasticity after rTMS.

Also, as my main PhD project, I explore whether the application of rTMS before BCI training can benefit motor function recovery in patients with stroke on the Neurotech stroke clinical trial.