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Overview

Gianfranco Spalletta is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Spalletta are the following:

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • International Multicenter Analysis of Brain Structure Across Clinical Stages of Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms, 2022, Scientific Data

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Spalletta include Fabrizio Piras, Nerisa Banaj, Paul M. Thompson, Daniela Vecchio, and Neda Jahanshad.

Publication venues where Spalletta has frequently published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Journal of Personalized Medicine, Human Brain Mapping, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.

In addition to journal articles, Spalletta has contributed to a book published by Frontiers Media titled Insights in Aging Psychiatry: 2021, released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

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  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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  • 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

  • APOE and Alzheimer disease: a major gene with semi-dominant inheritance

    E Genin;D Hannequin;D Wallon;K Sleegers

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Effects of antidepressant treatment on neuroactive steroids in major depression.

    E Romeo;A Ströhle;G Spalletta;F di Michele

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

    Patrice Péran;Andrea Cherubini;Francesca Assogna;Fabrizio Piras

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • 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

  • Poststroke Depression: A Review:

    Robert G. Robinson;Gianfranco Spalletta

  • Neuropsychiatric disease relevance of circulating anti-NMDA receptor autoantibodies depends on blood-brain barrier integrity

    Ch. Hammer;B. Stepniak;A. Schneider;S. Papiol

  • Seroprevalence of Autoantibodies against Brain Antigens in Health and Disease

    Liane Dahm;Christoph Ott;Johann Steiner;Beata Stepniak

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Stephanie H. Ameis

  • Behavioral and psychological effects of coronavirus disease-19 quarantine in patients with dementia

    A. Cagnin;R. Di Lorenzo;C. Marra;L. Bonanni

  • 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

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Fabrizio Piras
Fabrizio Piras Fondazione Santa Lucia
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Francesco E. Pontieri
Francesco E. Pontieri Sapienza University of Rome
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
Jun Soo Kwon
Jun Soo Kwon Seoul National University
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Lianne Schmaal
Lianne Schmaal University of Melbourne
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona

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