Lazzaro Biase

Dr. Lazzaro di Biase is involved in human movement neurophysiology research since he was a medical student. Since 2008 Lazzaro di Biase collaborate with the Laboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystem at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome for the development and use of human movement analysis devices in healthy and pathological subjects (Parkinson’s disease patients). Lazzaro di Biase has expertise in the use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial direct-current stimulation and has used these techniques, for the study of neural networks that underlying kinematic control of redundant movements. From 2011 to 2016 he attended the Neurology Residency Training Program at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome. In 2011 Lazzaro di Biase designed, organized, and implemented an ongoing research protocol for the study of premotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease using an MRI technique, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), as a tool for the study of hyposmia in Parkinson’s disease. Recently Lazzaro di Biase has focalized his research activity on the neurophysiological mechanism of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's disease patients and other movement disorders. Lazzaro di Biase attended as a visiting doctor at Toronto Western Hospital, Movement Disorders Clinic for 4 months in 2015, and since January 2016 Lazzaro Di Biase is a clinical research fellow at Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and at University College London where Lazzaro di Biase is following a research project on basal ganglia Local Field Potentials recordings of patients who have undergone functional neurosurgery. Finally, in collaboration with Oxford University, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Lazzaro di Biase is exploring new techniques for differential diagnosis in tremor syndromes.