Maria Nazarova

Oct 2012–Nov 2013

Fulbrigt fellowship: visiting research fellow - Harvard Medical School · Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation United States · Boston

Mar 2012– Sep 2012

EFNS fellowship: visiting research fellow Helsinki University Central Hospital · HUSLAB Finland · Helsinki

Invited review for the journal "Frontiers in Human Neuroscience", "NeuroImage: Clinical"

• 2011 – 2015: PhD Student in Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med. Sciences (Moscow), PhD thesis about the role of navigated TMS, DTI and fMRI for prediction of the motor recovery process in chronic stroke patients (defended 24.11.2015)

•  2009 – 2012: training in the laboratory of clinical neurophysiology of Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med. Sciences (Moscow) (methods of EEG, evoked potentials, surface electromyography, needle electromyography).

• 2009 – 2011: neurology residency in Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med. Sciences (Moscow). Mark for the final examination: 5 (in 5 score scale). Completed.

•  2003 – 2009: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Basic Medicine, Specialty “General Medicine”. Average mark: 5.00 (in 5 score scale). Graduated.

• 2005 – 2009: additional education: Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Educational Studies, Specialty “Teacher of biology”. Graduated.

• 2005 – 2006: additional education: Le Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou, Specialties “ Littérature française ”, “ Histoire Française”.

- 2009 – 2012: training in the laboratory of clinical neurophysiology of Research Center of Neurologyof Russian Academy of Med. Sciences (Moscow) (methods of EEG, evoqued potentials, surfaceelectromyography, needle electromyography).
- 2009 – 2011: neurology residency in Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med.Sciences (Moscow). Mark for the final examination: 5 (in 5 score scale). Completed.
- 2003 – 2009: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Basic Medicine, Specialty“General Medicine”. Average mark: 5.00 (in 5 score scale). Graduated.
- 2005 – 2009: additional education: Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Educational Studies, Specialty“Teacher of biology”. Graduated.- 2005 – 2006: additional education: Le Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou, Specialties “Littérature française ”, “ Histoire Française”.
 

- 2008 – 2009: graduation thesis work «Energetic metabolism of patients with ischemic strokefollowing cerebral artery dissection», Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med. Sciences(Moscow), mark: 5.00 (in 5 score scale).
- 2007 – 2008: degree work «Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization method for study of cell cycleactivation in hippocampal neurons of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy», Russian Academy of ScienceInstitute for Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, mark: 5.00 (in 5 score scale).

Educational visits:
- Poland, Sopot, 5th Baltic Sea Summer School on Epilepsy, June 19-24, 2011.
- 15th EFNS congress in Budapest, 2011.
- 22nd ENS congress in Prague, 2012.

Scholarships:
- 2012 - 2013: Fulbright visiting research fellow in:o Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School,chaired by Dr. A. Pascual-Leone (Boston, MA, USA): project "Modulation of Pre-existing BrainOscillations in motor cortex by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation".o Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center, BCH, Harvard Medical School,chaired by Dr. Y. Okada (Boston, MA, USA): work with MEG and DTI in children with cerebralpalsy.
- 2012: 3 months EFNS fellowship for young neurologists - work with navigated TMS and EEG,HUSLab, Helsinki University Hospital, chaired by Dr. Y. Mäkelä (Finland).

- 2011 – 2012: junior researcher in the TMS laboratory of the department of neurorehabilitation(Research Center of Neurology of Russian Academy of Med. Sciences (Moscow)
- 2011– now: collaborating with MEG-Center at Moscow State University of Psychology andEducation (MSUPE).- 2011 – 2012: neurologist in outpatient clinic “Bud zdorov”, Moscow.

Neurophysiologic skills:
- TMS, navigated TMS, combined with multichannel EEG.
- EEG evoked potentials (visual evoked potential, somatosensory evoked potential, brain stemauditory evoked potentials, vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, P300, MMN).
- EEG.
- Multichannel surface EMG.

Skills in neurovisualisation:
- Studying method of fMRI, DTI.
- Studying method of MEG.

Skills for working at biological laboratory:
- Transmission electron microscopy, optical microscopy (inc. confocal microscopy), Western blotting,mammalian cell cultures, electrophoresis (agarose, SDS-PAGE), PCR (basic techniques), Fluorescence inSitu Hybridization method.

1. Sakharova AV, Kalashnikova LA, Chaĭkovskaia RP, Mir-Kasimov MF, Nazarova MA, PykhtinaTN, Dobrynina LA, Patrusheva NL, Patrushev LI, Protskiĭ SV.[Morphological signs ofmitochondrial cytopathy in skeletal muscles and micro-vessel walls in a patient with cerebral arterydissection associated with MELAS syndrome]. Arkh Patol. 2012 Mar-Apr;74(2):51-6. Russian.PubMed PMID: 22880419.
2. Kalashnikova LA, Sakharova AV, Dobrynina LA, Chaĭkovskaia RP, Nazarova MA, Mir-KasimovMF, Protskiĭ SV, Shchipakin VL. [Ultrastructural changes of skin arteries in patients withspontaneous cerebral artery dissection]. Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 2011;111(7):54-60.Russian. PubMed PMID: 21947073.
3. Kalashnikova LA, Dobrynina LA, Sakharova AV, Chaĭkovskaia RP, Nazarova MA, Mir-KasimovMF, Patrusheva NL, Patrushev LI, Konovalov RN, Protskiĭ SV. [The A3243G mitochondrial DNAmutation in cerebral artery dissections]. Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 2012;112(1):84-9.Russian. PubMed PMID: 22678682.
4. Chervyakov AV, Piradov MA, Nazarova MA, Savitskaya NG, Chernikova LA, Konovalov RN.Mapping of motor cortical representation of the muscle m. Abductor Pollicis Brevis in healthyvolunteers by navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation with the system NBS Eximia Nexstim].Annals of clinical and experimental neurology. 2012; (6),No. 3: 14-17. Russian.
5. Nazarova MA, Piradov MA, Chernikova LA. [Mirror visual feedback – mirror therapy inneurorehabilitation, review] Annals of clinical and experimental neurology. 2012; (6), No. 4: 36-41.Russian.
6. Nazarova MA, Piradov MA, Korepina OS, Chervyakov AV, Savitskaya NG, Konovalov RN,Chernikova LA, Dobrynina LA. [The possibility of somatotopic mapping of the hand representationin human primary motor cortex by navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation]. Internationalsymposium on Functional Neuroimaging: Basic Research and Clinical Applications. Abstracts. – M.,MSUPE, 2012: 41-42.
7. Papadelis C., Nazarova M., Ahtam B., Snyder B., Grant P.E., Okada Y. [Cortical somatosensoryreorganization in children with spastic cerebral palsy: evidence from MEG and DTI], Front. Hum. Neurosci 12 September 2014, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00725.
8. Butorina A, Prokofyev A, Nazarova M, Litvak V, Stroganova T. [The mirror illusion induces high gamma oscillations in the absence of movement]. Neuroimage. 2014 Sep 19;103C:181-191. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.024.
9. М.А. Назарова, Пирадов М.А. [Зеркальная терапия в нейрореабилитации]. Русский Медицинский Журнал. (сдана в печать).
 

Presentations at meetings:
8. Kalashnikova LA, Sakharova AV, Dobrynina LA, Chaykovskaya RP, Mir-Kasimov MA, KonovalovRN, Nazarova MA, Protsky SV. [Dissection of cerebral arteries in a patient with MELAS], 15thEFNS congress, poster in “Cerebrovascular diseases” section.
9. Piradov MA, Nazarova MA, Korepina OS, Chervyakov AV, Savitskaya NG, Konovalov RN,Chernikova LA, Dobrynina LA. [The possibility of somatotopic mapping of the hand primary motorcortex by navigated transcranial magnetic