Over the past 10 years, she has become fascinated by the emerging field of Clinical Neuroscience and has contributed mainly to the understanding of how people respond to experiences of body and action. Her studies on the neural basis of action in brain-damaged patients and on bodily sensations in patients with spinal cord injuries have been published in many peer-reviewed publications, including: Current Biology, Neuron, The Journal of Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Behavioral Brain Science, Physics Life Review, Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, and Cortex. She is Director of Clinical Neuroscience Lab at the Sapienza University of Rome and Corpo e Azione Lab at IRCCS S. Lucia Hospital.