Title(s): Assistant Professor, Neurology
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
School: School of Medicine
Address: 675 Nelson Rising Lane, #001
San Francisco CA 94158
Email: lorenzo.pasquini@ucsf.edu
Overview
I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Memory and Aging center in 2016, where I used fMRI and autonomic physiology to study the neural basis of social-emotional functions in older adults and patients with frontotemporal dementia.
I joined Neuroscape as a faculty in 2022, where I explore the neural basis of emotional well-being in older adults using multimodal, simultaneous fMRI and autonomic physiology recordings.
A primary aim of my research is to develop tailored interventions, either behavioral (e.g. closed-loop meditation) or pharmacological (e.g. psilocybin), to target those brain systems that support emotions and social behavior in older adults. In my work, I combine sophisticated data analysis techniques, such as dynamic connectivity and brain connectivity gradients, to to better understand how the brain and the body interact to support emotional well-being in older adults.
Since 2023, I have been in the scientific advisory board of AWEAR, an early-stage startup developing wearable EEG technology.