Integrative Physiology

Principal Investigator: Silvestro Roatta

Group members:

Silvestro Roatta (Principal Investigator)
Raffaele Pertusio (Research Technician)
Daniela Canova (Research Technician)
Leonardo Ermini (Post-doc)
Ruben Allois (PhD Student)

Address and contacts:

Silvestro Roatta, +39 011 6708164/8485, silvestro.roatta@unito.it

Main research activities of the research group
The research activity follows several lines belonging to basic and applied physiology

Somato-vegetative interaction and motor control.
Reactivity and control of muscle circulation.
Methodology of hemodynamic evaluations (laser-Doppler flowmetry and Doppler ultrasound, near infrared spectroscopy,otoplethysmography, bio-impedancemetry).
Physiology of venous circulation and non-invasive assessment of fluid status
Brain-computer interfaces and augmentative and alternative communication devices.

Positions
Fellowships available starting from February 2024!

Get in touch as soon as possible:
Silvestro Roatta
Tel: 3383575768, 0116708164
silvestro.roatta@unito.it!
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List of 10 main publications

Messere A, Tschakovsky M, Seddone S, Lulli G, Franco W, Maffiodo D, Ferraresi C, Roatta S. Hyper-Oxygenation Attenuates the Rapid Vasodilatory Response to Muscle Contraction and Compression. Front Physiol. 9:1078, 2018 doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.01078
Ponzio F, Lorenzo Villalobos AE, Mesin L, de’Sperati C, Roatta S, A human-computer interface based on the "voluntary" pupil accommodative response, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 126:53-63, 2019 , doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.02.002
Botter A, Vieira TM, Geri T, Roatta S. The peripheral origin of tap-induced muscle contraction revealed by multi-electrode surface electromyography in human vastus medialis. Sci Rep, 10: 2256, 2020. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59122-z
Ermini L, Chiarello NE, De Benedictis C, Ferraresi C, Roatta S. Venous Pulse Wave Velocity variation in response to a simulated fluid challenge in healthy subjects. Biomedical signal processing and control, 63:102177, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102177
Lorenzo Villalobos EA, Giusiano S, Musso L, de’Sperati C, Riberi A, Spalek P, Calvo A, Moglia C, Roatta S. When assistive eye tracking fails: Communicating with a brainstem-stroke patient through the pupillary accommodative response – A case study. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 67:102215, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102515.
Paterna M, Dvir Z, de Benedictis C, Maffiodo D, Franco W, Ferraresi C. Roatta S. Center of pressure displacement due to graded controlled perturbations to the trunk in standing subjects: the force–impulse paradigm, Eur J Appl Physiol. 122:425–435, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-021-04844-9
Mesin L, Albani S, Pasquero P, Porta M, Policastro P, Leonardi G, Albera C, Scacciatella P, Melchiorri C, Pellicori P, Stolfo D, Fabris B, Grillo G, Bini R, Giannoni A, Pepe A, Ermini L, Seddone S, Sinagra G, Antonini-Canterin F, Roatta S, Assessment of phasic changes of vascular size by automated edge tracking -State of the art and clinical perspectives. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 8:775635, 2022. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.775635
Seddone S, Ermini L, Policastro L , Mesin L ,Roatta S. Evidence that large vessels do affect near infrared spectroscopy. Sci Rep, 12:2155, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05863-y
Rashid A, Roatta S. Differential control of blood flow in masseter and biceps brachii muscles during stress. Arch. Oral. Biol. 141:105490. 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2022.105490
Chiarion G, Ponzio F, Terna S, Moglia C, Patti E, Di Cataldo S, Roatta S. e-Pupil: IoT-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication device exploiting the pupillary near-reflex, IEEE Access, 10:130078-130088, 2022 doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3229143.

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