Defining and redefining the functional architecture of the human brain | Luca Cocchi | TEDxUQ

Luca Cocchi shares how two principles of brain function are being used to modulate brain activity in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder through the use of a non-invasive brain stimulation technique.

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Luca Cocchi is recognised for his work on functional and anatomical brain imaging, in health and disease. Recently, his research has focused on the use of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques as a potential treatment to selectively restore widespread brain connectivity deficits associated with mental illness. Luca obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland) in 2007. He was postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Melbourne from 2008 to 2011, before moving to the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.