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Carlo Caltagirone

Carlo Caltagirone

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Neuroscience
Italy
2026
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Psychology
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
123
Citations
60434
World Ranking
350
National Ranking
7

Psychology

D-Index
121
Citations
56466
World Ranking
249
National Ranking
1

Medicine

D-Index
123
Citations
60643
World Ranking
3330
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Carlo Caltagirone is affiliated with Fondazione Santa Lucia in Italy and has a significant research footprint primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. Their extensive body of work covers various subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Some of the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Carlo Caltagirone include:

  • BNT162b2 vaccination induces durable SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells with a stem cell memory phenotype, 2021, Science Immunology
  • Precuneus magnetic stimulation for Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, sham-controlled trial, 2022, Brain
  • Artificial Intelligence for Alzheimer's Disease: Promise or Challenge?, 2021, Diagnostics
  • Disability through COVID-19 pandemic: neurorehabilitation cannot wait, 2020, European Journal of Neurology
  • Evidence for interhemispheric imbalance in stroke patients as revealed by combining transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography, 2021, Human Brain Mapping

The scientist frequently publishes in journals that include:

  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Genes

Carlo Caltagirone has collaborated often with several co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Frequent co-authors include Emiliano Giardina, Claudia Strafella, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Andrea Termine, and Raffaella Cascella.

Best Publications

  • The Mental Deterioration Battery: normative data, diagnostic reliability and qualitative analyses of cognitive impairment. The Group for the Standardization of the Mental Deterioration Battery.

    Giovanni A Carlesimo;Carlo Caltagirone;Guido Gainotti

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Impaired cerebral vasoreactivity and risk of stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

    Mauro Silvestrini;Fabrizio Vernieri;Patrizio Pasqualetti;Maria Matteis

  • Forward and backward span for verbal and visuo-spatial data: standardization and normative data from an Italian adult population

    Marco Monaco;Alberto Costa;Carlo Caltagirone;Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo

  • Magnetic resonance imaging markers of Parkinson’s disease nigrostriatal signature

    Patrice Péran;Andrea Cherubini;Francesca Assogna;Fabrizio Piras

  • Cardiac Autonomic Derangement and Arrhythmias in Right-Sided Stroke With Insular Involvement

    Furio Colivicchi;Andrea Bassi;Massimo Santini;Carlo Caltagirone

  • Effect of Collateral Blood Flow and Cerebral Vasomotor Reactivity on the Outcome of Carotid Artery Occlusion

    Fabrizio Vernieri;Patrizio Pasqualetti;Maria Matteis;Francesco Passarelli

  • The etiology of poststroke depression: a review of the literature and a new hypothesis involving inflammatory cytokines.

    G Spalletta;P Bossù;A Ciaramella;P Bria

  • Prevalence of sleep disturbances in mild cognitive impairment and dementing disorders: a multicenter Italian clinical cross-sectional study on 431 patients.

    B. Guarnieri;F. Adorni;M. Musicco;I. Appollonio

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the precuneus enhances memory and neural activity in prodromal Alzheimer's disease.

    Giacomo Koch;Sonia Bonnì;Maria Concetta Pellicciari;Elias P. Casula

  • Hippocampal Volume Reduction in First-Episode and Chronic Schizophrenia A Review and Meta-Analysis

    Fulvia Adriano;Carlo Caltagirone;Gianfranco Spalletta

  • Neuropsychiatric Predictors of Progression from Amnestic-Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Depression and Apathy

    Katie Palmer;Fulvia Di Iulio;Ambra Erika Varsi;Walter Gianni

  • Anosognosia for hemiplegia after stroke is a multifaceted phenomenon: a systematic review of the literature

    M.D. Orfei;R.G. Robinson;G.P. Prigatano;Sergio Starkstein

  • Mapping local hippocampal changes in Alzheimer's disease and normal ageing with MRI at 3 Tesla

    Giovanni B. Frisoni;Rossana Ganzola;Elisa Canu;Udo Rüb

  • Early and long-term outcome of rehabilitation in stroke patients: the role of patient characteristics, time of initiation, and duration of interventions.

    Massimo Musicco;Leonardo Emberti;Giuseppe Nappi;Carlo Caltagirone

  • Inverse occurrence of cancer and Alzheimer disease A population-based incidence study

    Massimo Musicco;Fulvio Adorni;Simona Di Santo;Federica Prinelli

  • Regional brain atrophy and functional disconnection across Alzheimer's disease evolution

    T Gili;M Cercignani;L Serra;R Perri

  • Hand motor cortical area reorganization in stroke: a study with fMRI, MEG and TCS maps

    P. M. Rossini;C. Caltagirone;A. Castriota-Scanderbeg;P. Cicinelli

  • Neuropsychological correlates of localized cerebral lesions in non-aphasic brain-damaged patients

    Gabriele Miceli;C. Caltagirone;G. Gainotti;C. Masullo

  • Left frontal transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces contralesional extinction in patients with unilateral right brain damage

    M. Oliveri;P. M. Rossini;R. Traversa;P. Cicinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianfranco Spalletta
Gianfranco Spalletta Baylor College of Medicine
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Giacomo Koch
Giacomo Koch University of Ferrara
Marco Bozzali
Marco Bozzali Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Roberta Perri
Roberta Perri Catholic University of America
Lucia Fadda
Lucia Fadda University of Rome Tor Vergata
Laura Serra
Laura Serra University of Barcelona
Massimiliano Oliveri
Massimiliano Oliveri University of Palermo
Sonia Bonnì
Sonia Bonnì Fondazione Santa Lucia
Fabrizio Piras
Fabrizio Piras Fondazione Santa Lucia

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