Underlying mechanisms for gender specific differences in Major Depression and Migraine and internet supported Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (iCBT) outcome

Main Supervisor: Jessica Mwinyi
Co-supervisor: Monica Buhrman, Gerhard Andersson, and Helgi Schiöth

What is your educational background?
I have a Bachelor in Physics from the University of Milano-Bicocca and a Master in Physics from the University of Milan.

Why did you apply to WOMHER's interdisciplinary graduate school?
I think it is important to foster medical research on women mental health.

Tell us more about your research project.
The main idea of the project is to assess the impact of various biological biomarkers on the efficacy of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy on curing migraine and depressive symptoms. Another part of the project is devoted in finding possible biomarkers for migraine and depression, especially using neuroimaging techniques.

What do you hope the impact of this project to be?
I hope that my project would improve our current understanding of complicated phenomena such as migraine and depression.