Isabella Dallasta

Isa is currently a Neuroscience PhD student at UMD with the Simon lab and is doing an assistantship at Hopkins with the Marsh lab. She began working in the lab in the summer of 2021 and has a BA in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Mathematics and an MA in Business Administration. Isa was the lab coordinator from 2023-2025 and helped oversee the various projects in the lab including digital biomarkers for vascular cognitive decline in patients with strokes; the use of tDCS to improve cognitive impairment post stroke; and the effect of mindfulness practices on recovery, amongst others. She is currently working on a project to evaluate proteomic markers in relation to MEG to better understand and predict stroke recovery.

Publications

Soleimani S, Dallasta I, Das P, Kulasingham JP, Girgenti S, Simon JZ, Babadi B, Marsh EB. Altered directional functional connectivity underlies post-stroke cognitive recovery. Brain communications 2023;5(3). Click to read article

Dallasta I, and Marsh EB. Poststroke Cognitive Decline: Is Functional Connectivity the Key to Tangible Therapeutic Targets? Stroke 2024 May;55(5). Click to read artice.

Girgenti S., Dallasta I., Lawrence E., Merbach D., Simon JZ., Llinas R, Gould NF., Marsh EB. Modified-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction as a Treatment for Cognitive Recovery in Patients with Minor Stroke: a Randomized Controlled Trial (out for review).

Obasanjo W., Ahmed Z., Dallasta I., Marsh EB. Localization Matters: Specific Patterns of Cognitive Dysfunction Depend on Location, Even for Patients with Minor Stroke (in progress).

Commuri V., Dallasta I., Stone C., Girgenti S., Gould N., Llinas RH., Simon JZ., Marsh EB. Functional Connectivity: The Link Between frontoparietal Cortex and cognitive Outcomes Following Minor Stroke (out for review).

Larson S., John S., Gowrisankar S, Zhao M., Piner B., Dallasta I. MA, and Marsh EB. MD. The Social Determinants of Health Framework Identifies those at Risk for Loss to Follow-up After Stroke. JAHA (2025). https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.040986 Click to read article.