Professor Luca Cocchi has proven expertise across several research domains:

• neuroimaging
• neuroscience
• computational modelling
• brain stimulation
• psychiatry; and
• clinical trials.

This broad expertise has allowed Prof. Cocchi to bridge traditional academic disciplines. He has established a translational research program that significantly advances the understanding of brain function in health and disease. This knowledge is promptly implemented into developing and trialling novel therapeutic interventions.

Prof. Cocchi is the leader of clinical trials on the concurrent use of neuroimaging and brain stimulation to target the activity of brain networks underpinning psychiatric symptoms.

Prof. Cocchi has published as first or last author in top-ranking scientific and clinical journals, including:

Nature Communications

• Focal neural perturbations reshape low-dimensional trajectories of brain activity supporting cognitive performance
• Movie viewing elicits rich and reliable brain state dynamics
• Large-scale brain modes reorganize between infant sleep states and carry prognostic information for preterms

Neuron

• The Low-Dimensional Neural Architecture of Cognitive Complexity Is Related to Activity in Medial Thalamic Nuclei

Molecular Psychiatry

• ADHD symptoms map onto noise-driven structure–function decoupling between hub and peripheral brain regions

eLife

• Reconfiguration of functional brain networks and metabolic cost converge during task performance
• A hierarchy of timescales explains distinct effects of local inhibition of primary visual cortex and frontal eye fields

Nature Mental Health

• Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation of the rostromedial prefrontal cortex in obsessive–compulsive disorder: a randomized clinical trial

Prof Cocchi is an editor in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical and sits on the editorial board of the top journal in neuroimaging (NeuroImage).