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Overview

Guido Gainotti is affiliated with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a substantial focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of research topics, including:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Recent publications by Gainotti demonstrate engagement with these topics and include:

  • Semantic Memory as an Early Cognitive Marker of Alzheimer's Disease: Role of Category and Phonological Verbal Fluency Tasks, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Is There a Causal Link between the Left Lateralization of Language and Other Brain Asymmetries? A Review of Data Gathered in Patients with Focal Brain Lesions, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • Unconscious processing of emotions and the right hemisphere, 2021, Handbook of clinical neurology
  • Which components of famous people recognition are lateralized? A study of face, voice and name recognition disorders in patients with neoplastic or degenerative damage of the right or left anterior temporal lobes, 2023, Neuropsychologia
  • Some historical notes orienting towards brain mechanisms that could underlie hemispheric asymmetries, 2023, Cortex

Gainotti has published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Brain Sciences (11 publications)
  • Cortex (5 publications)
  • Handbook of clinical neurology (2 publications)
  • Neuropsychologia (2 publications)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2 publications)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Davide Quaranta (7 joint publications)
  • Costanza Papagno (6 joint publications)
  • Simona Luzzi (6 joint publications)
  • Camillo Marra (5 joint publications)
  • Chiara Piccininni (4 joint publications)

Overall, the work of Guido Gainotti centers on neuropsychological mechanisms related to hemispheric function, language lateralization, face and emotion recognition, and cognitive markers of neurological diseases. Their contributions extend across multiple interdisciplinary research areas, linking neurobiology, psychology, and clinical neuroscience.

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

  • Emotional behavior and hemispheric side of the lesion.

    Guido Gainotti

  • EFNS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease

    J. Hort;J.T. O'Brien;G. Gainotti;T. Pirttila

  • Evidence for a possible neuroanatomical basis for lexical processing of nouns and verbs

    Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi;M.Caterina Silveri;Cesare Colosimo

  • EFNS-ENS Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of disorders associated with dementia

    S. Sorbi;J. Hort;T. Erkinjuntti;T. Erkinjuntti;T. Fladby

  • Qualitative analysis of unilateral spatial neglect in relation to laterality of cerebral lesions

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  • Relation between depression after stroke, antidepressant therapy, and functional recovery

    G Gainotti;G Antonucci;C Marra;S Paolucci

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of category-specific semantic disorders: A critical survey

    Guido Gainotti;Maria Caterina Silveri;Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi

  • What the locus of brain lesion tells us about the nature of the cognitive defect underlying category-specific disorders: a review.

    Guido Gainotti

  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Early orientation of attention toward the half space ipsilateral to the lesion in patients with unilateral brain damage

    Guido Gainotti;Patrizia D'Erme;Paolo Bartolomeo

  • Frequency, phenomenology and anatomical-clinical correlates of major post-stroke depression

    G Gainotti;A Azzoni;C Marra

  • The relationship between visuospatial and representational neglect

    Paolo Bartolomeo;Patrizia D'Erme;Guido Gainotti

  • Unconscious processing of emotions and the right hemisphere.

    Guido Gainotti

  • Different patterns of famous people recognition disorders in patients with right and left anterior temporal lesions: a systematic review.

    Guido Gainotti

  • Motor cortex hyperexcitability to transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease

    V Di Lazzaro;A Oliviero;F Pilato;E Saturno

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

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

  • Left/right and cortical/subcortical dichotomies in the neuropsychological study of human emotions

    Guido Gainotti;Carlo Caltagirone;Pierluigi Zoccolotti

  • The Post-Stroke Depression Rating Scale : A test specifically devised to investigate affective disorders of stroke patients

    Guido Gainotti;Antonella Azzoni;Carmelina Razzano;Monica Lanzillotta

  • Dissociation between knowledge of living and nonliving things in dementia of the Alzheimer type

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi;Guido Gainotti

  • Slowly progressive defect in recognition of familiar people in a patient with right anterior temporal atrophy.

    Guido Gainotti;Annalisa Barbier;Camillo Marra

Frequent Co-Authors

Camillo Marra
Camillo Marra Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Gabriele Miceli
Gabriele Miceli University of Trento
Maria Caterina Silveri
Maria Caterina Silveri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Paolo Bartolomeo
Paolo Bartolomeo Allen Institute for Brain Science
Dario Grossi
Dario Grossi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Fabio Pilato
Fabio Pilato Università Campus Bio-Medico
Federico Ranieri
Federico Ranieri University of Verona
Luigi Trojano
Luigi Trojano University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo University of Rome Tor Vergata

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