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Gemma Calamandrei is affiliated with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Italy and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research spans multiple subfields including health, toxicology, and mutagenesis; cognitive neuroscience; clinical psychology; nutrition and dietetics; and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work covers a diverse range of topics, including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging

Calamandrei has contributed to research published in multiple venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Nutrients
  • PubMed
  • Environmental Research
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Several recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Calamandrei include:

  • "Maternal immune activation induces autism-like changes in behavior, neuroinflammatory profile and gut microbiota in mouse offspring of both sexes," 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Prenatal exposure to neurotoxic metals and micronutrients and neurodevelopmental outcomes in early school age children from Poland," 2021, Environmental Research
  • "Human biomonitoring to evaluate exposure to toxic and essential trace elements during pregnancy. Part B: Predictors of exposure," 2020, Environmental Research
  • "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers in Italy: Analyzing the Role of Individual and Workplace-Level Factors in the Reopening Phase After Lockdown," 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Who is likely to vacillate in their COVID-19 vaccination decision? Free-riding intention and post-positive reluctance," 2021, Preventive Medicine

Frequent coauthors in Calamandrei's research include:

  • Anna Maria Tartaglione
  • Laura Ricceri
  • Anna Pino
  • Valentina Candini
  • Cristina Zarbo

Best Publications

  • Endocrine disrupters: a review of some sources, effects, and mechanisms of actions on behaviour and neuroendocrine systems

    C A Frye;E Bo;G Calamandrei;L Calzà

  • B-vitamin deprivation induces hyperhomocysteinemia and brain S-adenosylhomocysteine, depletes brain S-adenosylmethionine, and enhances PS1 and BACE expression and amyloid-β deposition in mice

    Andrea Fuso;Vincenzina Nicolia;Rosaria A. Cavallaro;Laura Ricceri

  • Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors

    Jerrold J. Heindel;Frederick S. Vom Saal;Bruce Blumberg;Patrizia Bovolin

  • Developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphorous pesticides: fetal and neonatal exposure to chlorpyrifos alters sex-specific behaviors at adulthood in mice.

    Laura Ricceri;Aldina Venerosi;Francesca Capone;Maria Francesca Cometa

  • A retrospective performance assessment of the developmental neurotoxicity study in support of OECD test guideline 426.

    Susan L. Makris;Kathleen Raffaele;Sandra Allen;Wayne J. Bowers

  • Workgroup Report: Incorporating In Vitro Alternative Methods for Developmental Neurotoxicity into International Hazard and Risk Assessment Strategies

    Sandra Coecke;Alan M. Goldberg;Sandra Allen;Leonora Buzanska

  • DEVELOPMENTAL EXPOSURE TO CHLORPYRIFOS INDUCES ALTERATIONS IN THYROID AND THYROID HORMONE LEVELS WITHOUT OTHER TOXICITY SIGNS IN CD1 MICE

    Simona De Angelis;Roberta Tassinari;Francesca Maranghi;Agostino Eusepi

  • Chlorpyrifos and neurodevelopmental effects: a literature review and expert elicitation on research and policy

    Margaret Saunders;Brooke L Magnanti;Sara Correia Carreira;Aileen Yang

  • Differential expression of Fos protein in the brain of female mice dependent on pup sensory cues and maternal experience

    Gemma Calamandrei;Eric B. Keverne

  • Cognitive and neurological deficits induced by early and prolonged basal forebrain cholinergic hypofunction in rats.

    Laura Ricceri;Luisa Minghetti;Anna Moles;Patrizia Popoli

  • Developmental exposure to chlorpyrifos alters reactivity to environmental and social cues in adolescent mice.

    Laura Ricceri;Nadja Markina;Nadja Markina;Angela Valanzano;Stefano Fortuna

  • Multifactorial Origin of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Approaches to Understanding Complex Etiologies

    Alessia De Felice;Laura Ricceri;Aldina Venerosi;Flavia Chiarotti

  • Early behavioural markers of disease in P301S tau transgenic mice.

    Maria Luisa Scattoni;Laura Gasparini;Laura Gasparini;Enrico Alleva;Michel Goedert

  • Prenatal chlorpyrifos exposure alters motor behavior and ultrasonic vocalization in cd-1 mouse pups

    Aldina Venerosi;Laura Ricceri;Maria Luisa Scattoni;Gemma Calamandrei

  • Maternal immune activation induces autism-like changes in behavior, neuroinflammatory profile and gut microbiota in mouse offspring of both sexes

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  • Prenatal valproate in rodents as a tool to understand the neural underpinnings of social dysfunctions in autism spectrum disorder

    Anna Maria Tartaglione;Sara Schiavi;Gemma Calamandrei;Viviana Trezza

  • The cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55,212-2 attenuates the effects induced by quinolinic acid in the rat striatum

    A. Pintor;M.T. Tebano;A. Martire;R. Grieco

  • Prenatal exposure to the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos enhances brain oxidative stress and prostaglandin E2 synthesis in a mouse model of idiopathic autism

    Alessia De Felice;Alessia De Felice;Anita Greco;Gemma Calamandrei;Luisa Minghetti

  • Thyroid hormone metabolism and environmental chemical exposure

    Marike M Leijs;Gavin W ten Tusscher;Kees Olie;Tom van Teunenbroek

  • A social recognition test for female mice reveals behavioral effects of developmental chlorpyrifos exposure

    Aldina Venerosi;Gemma Calamandrei;Laura Ricceri

  • Prenatal Exposure to a Common Organophosphate Insecticide Delays Motor Development in a Mouse Model of Idiopathic Autism

    Alessia De Felice;Maria Luisa Scattoni;Laura Ricceri;Gemma Calamandrei

  • Ontogeny of spatial discrimination in mice: A longitudinal analysis in the modified open‐field with objects

    Laura Ricceri;Camilla Colozza;Gemma Calamandrei

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Ricceri
Laura Ricceri Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Maria Luisa Scattoni
Maria Luisa Scattoni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Igor Branchi
Igor Branchi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Francesca Cirulli
Francesca Cirulli Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Giancarlo Panzica
Giancarlo Panzica University of Turin
Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Joanne Berger-Sweeney Tufts University
Giovanni Laviola
Giovanni Laviola Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Virginia Volterra
Virginia Volterra National Research Council (CNR)
Eric B. Keverne
Eric B. Keverne University of Cambridge

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