Epileptic Disorders^™ Educational Prize 2022

Ludovica Maria Piscitello (Italy) was awarded the Epileptic Disorders Educational Prize for her paper, Transient infant movements (TIM): frequent infant non-pathological developmental motor phenomena. 

Piscitello LM, Volponi C, Santarone ME, Mariani R, Fusco L. Transient infant movements (TIM): Frequent infant non-pathological developmental motor phenomena. Epileptic Disorders. 2021;23(5):713-717. doi:10.1684/epd.2021.1317

Ludovica Maria Piscitello is from Rome, Italy. She completed her undergraduate degree at La Sapienza University in Rome in 2015 and has been working as a research fellow for the Bambino Gesù Children Hospital in Rome since 2018. Her area of expertise is long-term video-EEG monitoring and SEEG as part of a multidisciplinary team that actively works toward the diagnoses and treatment of epilepsy in pediatric patients, with a focus on the study and analysis of EEG in patients with genetic and structural drug-resistance epilepsy.