Motor control and skills, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Awards
W. Alden Spencer Award (1978) Elected to National Academy of Sciences (1986) & Institute of Medicine (2005), President of Italy's Gold Medal for Scientific Contributions (2005)
Scientific career
Fields
Neuroscience
Institutions
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Emilio Bizzi (born February 22, 1933)[1][2] is a neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an investigator of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a faculty member in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his MD from the University of Rome in 1958 and his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1968. In Pisa, he performed seminal measurements of brain waves during sleep.
Bizzi joined MIT as a Research Associate in 1966, was appointed Associate Professor in 1969, and tenured in 1972. He was Director of the Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, and Management between 1983 and 1987 and head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences from 1986 to 1997. In 2006, he was elected as President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research focuses on how the central nervous system translates brain messages signaling motor intent into muscle activation. He also studies how motor control is affected by stroke damage and how computational analysis of motor control can be harnessed to improve rehabilitation methods for stroke patients.[3]
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^Cheung, V. C. K.; Piron, L.; Agostini, M.; Silvoni, S.; Turolla, A.; Bizzi, E. (30 October 2009). "Stability of muscle synergies for voluntary actions after cortical stroke in humans". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (46): 19563–19568. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10619563C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910114106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2780765. PMID 19880747.
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the possible activation levels of the components themselves. Work from EmilioBizzi suggests that sensory feedback adapts synergies to fit behavioral constraints...
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002. PMC 4350235. PMID 18304801. Andrea d'Avella; Philippe Saltiel; EmilioBizzi (2003). "Combinations of muscle synergies in the construction of a natural...
Sciences (Desimone, Horvitz, Graybiel, Boyden, and Feng Zhang, along with EmilioBizzi and Nancy Kanwisher). The founding director (2000–2004) was Phillip Sharp...
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PMC 6793707. PMID 8987766. Li, Chiang-Shan Ray; Padoa-Schioppa, Camillo; Bizzi, Emilio (2001). "Neuronal Correlates of Motor Performance and Motor Learning...
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