Milana Makarova

Education

2024

HSE University

2023

Master's
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

2020

Degree in Electronics and Automatics of Physical Facilities
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

2023, School - Computational Psychiatry Course (CPC), Zurich, Switzerland

2023, School - Neuromatch Academy (NMA), Interactive track and the course project of
Computational Neuroscience

Professional Interests

TMS mapping Digital circuit engineering rehabilitation intracortical inhibition

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2026
M. Makarova Разработка подходов адаптивной транскраниальной магнитной стимуляции на примере исследования и модуляции двигательной системы

Conferences

2024 - Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Ibaraki, Japan (poster presentation)

2023 - IEEE Ural-Siberian Conference on Computational Technologies in Cognitive Science, Genomics and Biomedicine (CSGB), Russian Federation, Novosibirsk

2023 - 21st World Congress of Psychophysiology, Switzerland, Geneva (poster presentation)

2023 - 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference, Portugal, Lisbon (poster presentation)

2022 - Joint Russian-Iranian Symposium on Cognitive Sciences, Russian Federation, Moscow (speaker)

2021 - "Cognitive science in Moscow: new researches", Russian Federation, Moscow (speaker)

Employment history

2018 - 2023

Joint Stock Company «N.A. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering»
JSC «JSC «NIKIET»

Engineer

Conferences

2021
"Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования" (Москва). Presentation: Multi-muscle TMS mapping for the assessment of motor-cortex reorganization during hand motor-skill acquisition

9

Jul

2026

When Looking at Their Own Faces, Men Forget Everything

In an experiment involving 15 healthy men, scientists at HSE University investigated how different phases of the cardiac cycle influence the excitability of the motor cortex when participants viewed either their own photograph or the faces of strangers. The researchers found that when participants looked at their own image, the brain’s response to signals from the heart was weaker, meaning that the influence of cardiac activity on the motor cortex decreased. This finding came contrary to expectations, as self-focused attention was thought to enhance the brain's sensitivity to internal bodily signals. The study has been published in Frontiers in Signal Processing.