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Anna Rita Giovagnoli is affiliated with the Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta in Italy. Their research spans across multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, focusing significantly on neurology, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of epilepsy, prion diseases, and psychosomatic disorders. The main topics of their research include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Giovagnoli's publishing record features papers in several frequent venues such as:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Neurological Sciences
  • Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Brain Sciences

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Neuro-telehealth for fragile patients in a tertiary referral neurological institute during the COVID-19 pandemic in Milan, Lombardy" (2021), published in Neurological Sciences
  • "The understanding of mental states and the cognitive phenotype of frontal lobe epilepsy" (2020), published in Epilepsia
  • "Diversified social cognition in temporal lobe epilepsy" (2021), published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
  • "PMCA-Based Detection of Prions in the Olfactory Mucosa of Patients With Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease" (2022), published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "Cognitive awareness after treatment for high-grade glioma" (2021), published in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

The scientist regularly collaborates with colleagues including Giuseppe Di Fede, Antonio Emanuele Elia, Giorgio Giaccone, Fabio Moda, and Roberto Eleopra, reflecting a research network focused on neurological disorders.

Within their broader academic contributions, the scientist has authored 35 publications classified under Medicine and 18 within Neuroscience. Their subfield contributions are notable in psychiatry and mental health (15 publications), neurology (11 publications), cognitive neuroscience (10 publications), molecular biology (7 publications), and genetics (3 publications).

Best Publications

  • Trail making test: normative values from 287 normal adult controls

    A. R. Giovagnoli;M. Del Pesce;S. Mascheroni;M. Simoncelli

  • Learning and memory impairment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: relation to the presence, type, and location of brain lesion.

    Anna R. Giovagnoli;Giuliano Avanzini

  • Facets and determinants of quality of life in patients with recurrent high grade glioma

    A R Giovagnoli;A Silvani;E Colombo;A Boiardi

  • The contribution of neuropsychology to diagnostic assessment in epilepsy.

    Marilyn Jones-Gotman;Mary Lou Smith;Gail L. Risse;Michael Westerveld

  • Music, music therapy and dementia: a review of literature and the recommendations of the Italian Psychogeriatric Association.

    A. Raglio;G. Bellelli;P. Mazzola;D. Bellandi

  • Theory of mind in frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy: cognitive and neural aspects.

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;Silvana Franceschetti;Fabiola Reati;Annalisa Parente

  • Quality of life in patients with stable disease after surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy for malignant brain tumour

    Anna R Giovagnoli

  • Hereditary Cerebral Hemorrhage With Amyloidosis Associated With the E693K Mutation of APP

    Orso Bugiani;Giorgio Giaccone;Giacomina Rossi;Michela Mangieri

  • Relation of sorting impairment to hippocampal damage in temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli

  • Quality of life and memory performance in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;G. Avanzini

  • Quality of life in brain tumor patients

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;Marcello Tamburini;Amerigo Boiardi

  • Blurring in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical, high-field imaging and ultrastructural study.

    Rita Garbelli;Gloria Milesi;Valentina Medici;Flavio Villani

  • The contribution of spirituality to quality of life in focal epilepsy

    Anna R. Giovagnoli;Rute F. Meneses;Rute F. Meneses;Antonio Martins da Silva

  • Visual learning on a selective reminding procedure and delayed recall in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;Maria Casazza;Guiliano Avanzini

  • Self-reporting of everyday memory in patients with epilepsy: Relation to neuropsychological, clinical, pathological and treatment factors

    A.R Giovagnoli;S Mascheroni;G Avanzini

  • Semantic memory in partial epilepsy: verbal and non-verbal deficits and neuroanatomical relationships.

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;Alessandra Erbetta;Flavio Villani;Giuliano Avanzini

  • Positive response to immunomodulatory therapy in an adult patient with Rasmussen's encephalitis.

    F. Villani;R. Spreafico;L. Farina;A.R. Giovagnoli

  • Cognitive impairment and quality of life in long-term survivors of malignant brain tumors

    A. R. Giovagnoli;A. Boiardi

  • A family with Alzheimer disease and strokes associated with A713T mutation of the APP gene

    G. Rossi;G. Giaccone;R. Maletta;M. Morbin

  • Recent Innovative Studies of Memory in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Brian D. Bell;Anna R. Giovagnoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio Villani
Flavio Villani Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Giuliano Avanzini
Giuliano Avanzini Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Silvana Franceschetti
Silvana Franceschetti Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Roberto Spreafico
Roberto Spreafico Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Ludovico D'Incerti
Ludovico D'Incerti Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Giovanni Broggi
Giovanni Broggi Casa di Cura Columbus
Paolo Vitali
Paolo Vitali McGill University
Erminio Capitani
Erminio Capitani University of Milan
Mary Lou Smith
Mary Lou Smith University of Toronto
Massimo Zeviani
Massimo Zeviani University of Padua

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