She graduated as Medical Doctor and specialized in Neurology at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy). She has been attached as Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA) from 1987 to 1990. In 1993 she got her Doctorate (Neurobiology) at Sapienza University. From 1993 to 2002 she worked at Istituto Neuromed (Pozzilli, IS, Italy) and since 2002 she is senior staff member at Santa Lucia Neurorehabilitation Hospital (Rome, Italy).