Maria Giulia Preti

Citizenship: Italian
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Biography
Maria Giulia Preti is a Research Staff Scientist at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging (Switzerland) and a Lecturer (Maître-Assistante) at the University of Geneva. She is part of Dimitri Van De Ville's group at EPFL, which she joined in 2013 as a post-doc. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 2013, after her M. Sc. (2009) and B. Sc. (2007) in Biomedical Engineering, as well at Politecnico di Milano. During her Ph.D., she focused on advanced techniques of brain magnetic resonance imaging, in particular she developed a method of groupwise fMRI-guided tractography, that revealed useful in the in-vivo investigation of the pathophysiological changes across the evolution of Alzheimers disease. In 2011, she was awarded a Progetto Rocca fellowship from MIT-Italy and spent a visiting research period at the MIT and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA), under the supervision of Prof. Nikos Makris, where she could focus on the anatomical study of specific neruonal bundles.Her current research aims at investigating the relationship between brain function and structure by using advanced techniques of magnetic resonance imaging and graph signal processing methods. In particular, she is working on functional MRI, functional connectivity, diffusion tensor imaging and tractography, integration of MRI with other techniques (e.g. EEG), and the application of these methods to several clinical contexts, e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment, multiple sclerosis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, stroke.
Publications
Selected publications
M.G. Preti & D. Van De Ville Scientific Reports, 7 Article number: 12773, 2017 |
Dynamics of Funtional Connectivity at High Spatial Resolution Reveal Long-Range Interactions and Fine-Scale Organization. |
M.G. Preti, T.A. Bolton, D. Van De Ville NeuroImage, vol. 160, pag. 41-54, 2017. |
The Dynamic Functional Connectome: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives |
R. Hasler & M.G. Preti et al. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 269 pp. 54-61, 2017 |
Inter-Hemispherical Asymmetry in Default-Mode Functional Connectivity and BAIAP2 Gene are Associated With Anger Expression in ADHD Adults |
D. Van De Ville, R. Demesmaeker, M.G. Preti IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24 pp. 1001-1004, 2017 |
When Slepian Meets Fiedler: Putting a Focus on the Graph Spectrum |
J. Grandjean, M.G. Preti, T.A. Bolton, M. Buerge, E. Seifritz, C.R. Pryce, D. Van De Ville & M. Rudin NeuroImage vol. 152 pp. 497-508, 2017 |
Dynamic Reorganization of Intrinsic Functional Networks in the Mouse Brain |
F.C. Quevenco, M.G. Preti, J.M. van Bergen, J. Hua, M. Wyss, X. Li, S.J. Schreiner, S.C. Steininger, R. Meyer, I.B. Meier, A. Brickman, S. Leh, A.F. Gietl, A. Buck, R.M. Nitsch, K.P. Pruessmann, P.C. van Zijl, C. Hock, D. Van De Ville & P.G. Unschuld Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, vol. 9 (24) pp. 1-11, 2017 |
Memory Performance Related Dynamic Brain Connectivity Indicates Pathological Burden and Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease |
D.-E. Meskaldji, M.G. Preti, T. Bolton, M.-L. Montandon, C.K. Rodriguez, S. Morgenthaler, P. Giannakopoulos, S. Haller & D. Van De Ville Neuroimage: Clinical, vol. 12 pp. 785-795, 2016 |
Prediction of Long-Term Memory Scores in MCI Based on Resting-State fMRI |
K. Emmert, D. Zöller, M.G. Preti, D. Van De Ville, P. Giannakopoulos & S. Haller PLOS One, vol. 11 :(8) pp. e0161121, 2016 |
Influence of Vascular Variant of the Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) on Cerebral Blood Flow, Vascular Response to CO2 and Static Functional Connectivity |
D. Zanchi, A.L. Brody, M.-L. Montandon, R. Kopel, K. Emmert, M.G. Preti, D. Van De Ville & S. Haller Addiction Biology, vol. 20 :(6) pp. 1033-1041, 2015 |
Cigarette Smoking Leads to Persistent and Dose-Dependent Alterations of Brain Activity and Connectivity in Anterior Insula and Anterior Cingulate |
Maria Giulia Preti, Nikos Makris, George Papadimitriou, Maria Marcella Lagan�, Ludovica Griffanti, Mario Clerici, Raffaello Nemni, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Giuseppe Baselli, Francesca Baglio PloS one, 9 (3), e92026, 2014 |
A Novel Approach of Groupwise fMRI-Guided Tractography Allowing to Characterize the Clinical Evolution of Alzheimer's Disease |
N Makris, MG Preti, T Asami, P Pelavin, B Campbell, GM Papadimitriou, J Kaiser, G Baselli, CF Westin, ME Shenton, M Kubicki Brain Structure and Function, 218 (4), 951-968, 2013 |
Human middle longitudinal fascicle: variations in patterns of anatomical connections |
N Makris, MG Preti, D Wassermann, Y Rathi, GM Papadimitriou, C Yergatian, BC Dickerson, ME Shenton, M Kubicki Brain imaging and behavior, 7 (3), 335-352, 2013 |
Human middle longitudinal fascicle: segregation and behavioral-clinical implications of two distinct fiber connections linking temporal pole and superior temporal gyrus with the angular gyrus or superior parietal lobule using multi-tensor tractography |
Maria Marcella Lagan�, Maria Giulia Preti, Leonardo Forzoni, Sara D'Onofrio, Stefano De Beni, Antonello Barberio, Pietro Cecconi, Giuseppe Baselli IEEE transactions on multimedia, 15 (5), 1039-1048, 2013 |
Transcranial Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Image Fusion With Virtual Navigator |
Maria Giulia Preti, Francesca Baglio, Maria Marcella Lagan�, Ludovica Griffanti, Raffaello Nemni, Mario Clerici, Marco Bozzali, Giuseppe Baselli PloS one, 7 (4), e35856, 2012 |
Assessing corpus callosum changes in Alzheimer's disease: comparison between tract-based spatial statistics and atlas-based tractography |