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Alla fine di questo lavoro sento di dover ringraziare il Prof. Pietro Pietrini per avermi accolto nel suo gruppo di ricerca, per la sua decisione di coinvolgermi in questo studio e di lavorare a questa Tesi di Laurea.
Ringrazio il suo laboratorio di Biochimica Clinica e Biologia Molecolare Clinica, in particolar modo il Dott. Emiliano Ricciardi, la Dott.ssa Daniela Bonino e l’Ing. Lorenzo Sani per la loro continua supervisione durante tutte le fasi del mio lavoro in questi mesi, la discussione critica dei dati e la correzione del materiale di questa Tesi di Laurea. Lo sviluppo e l’organizzazione di questa Tesi è nata dalle loro linee di ricerche.
Vorrei inoltre ringraziare il Prof. Mario Guazzelli e il Dott. Claudio Gentili per avermi indirizzato nel mio primo approccio alla ricerca relativamente all’esplorazione funzionale del cervello umano, la Dott.ssa Sabrina Danti per i suoi numerosi e utili consigli, il Laboratorio di Risonanza Magnetica del CNR di Pisa dove abbiamo avuto accesso all’utilizzo degli scanner di risonanza magnetica a scopi sperimentali, e tutti i volontari vedenti e non vedenti, senza i quali non sarebbe stato possibile svolgere questo lavoro.
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