Viviana Santoro
Viviana Santoro is a research assistant at King’s College London at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Richardson.
After obtaining the MSc in neuroscience and neuropsychological rehabilitation at the University of Padua (Padua, Italy) she joined the Richardson Lab for a one-year internship. Viviana’s internship program focused on learning how to deliver the non-invasive brain stimulation technique of TMS and register responses with electromyography (TMS-EMG) and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG). During this placement, she contributed to TMS-EEG data acquisition and analysis in several experimental protocols, testing patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls taking part in Phase I clinical trials.
She also collaborates on a project aiming to investigate the patterns of excitation/inhibition (E/I) imbalance in treatment-resistant patients with schizophrenia, by using TMS-EEG as readout of cortical excitability, under the supervision of Dr. Isabella Premoli and Prof. Sukhi Shergill.