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Overview

Lucia Fadda is affiliated with the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental Health as key subfields.

The central topics covered in their work include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Music Therapy and Health

Lucia Fadda has published research in several academic venues, most frequently in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, followed by contributions in the Journal of Neuropsychology, Applied Neuropsychology Adult, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, and Neurorehabilitation.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Verbal and spatial memory spans in mild cognitive impairment (2021, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica)
  • Te.M.P.O., an app for using temporal musical mismatch in post-stroke neurorehabilitation: A preliminary randomized controlled study (2020, Neurorehabilitation)
  • The diagnostic usefulness of experimental memory tasks for detecting subjective cognitive decline: Preliminary results in an Italian sample (2022, Neuropsychology)
  • A Lack of Practice Effects on Memory Tasks Predicts Conversion to Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (2020, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology)
  • Forgetting Rates on the Recency Portion of a Word List Predict Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease (2020, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Lucia Fadda include Carlo Caltagirone, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Roberta Perri, Maria Stefania De Simone, and Massimo De Tollis.

Best Publications

  • Standardizzazione di due test di memoria per uso clinico: Breve Racconto e Figura di Rey

    Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo;Ivana Buccione;Lucia Fadda;Anita Graceffa

  • Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Syndromes in a Large Cohort of Newly Diagnosed, Untreated Patients With Alzheimer Disease

    Gianfranco Spalletta;Massimo Musicco;Alesandro Padovani;Luca Rozzini

  • Episodic memory impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease is correlated with entorhinal cortex atrophy. A voxel-based morphometry study.

    M. Di Paola;E. Macaluso;G. A. Carlesimo;F. Tomaiuolo

  • Recognition memory for single items and for associations in amnesic patients

    Patrizia Turriziani;Lucia Fadda;Carlo Caltagirone;Giovanni A. Carlesimo

  • Grey and white matter changes at different stages of Alzheimer's disease.

    Laura Serra;Mara Cercignani;Delia Lenzi;Roberta Perri

  • Are the behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer's disease directly associated with neurodegeneration?

    Laura Serra;Roberta Perri;Mara Cercignani;Barbara Spanò

  • Cognition and behaviour are independent and heterogeneous dimensions in Alzheimer's disease.

    Gianfranco Spalletta;Francesca Baldinetti;Ivana Buccione;Lucia Fadda

  • Verbal and spatial memory spans in Alzheimer's and multi-infarct dementia

    Giovanni A. Carlesimo;L. Fadda;S. Lorusso;C. Caltagirone

  • Protecting cognition from aging and Alzheimer's disease: a computerized cognitive training combined with reminiscence therapy

    Francesco Barban;Roberta Annicchiarico;Stelios Pantelopoulos;Alessia Federici

  • Memory performances in young, elderly, and very old healthy individuals versus patients with Alzheimer's disease: evidence for discontinuity between normal and pathological aging

    Giovanni A Carlesimo;Marco Mauri;Anita M S Graceffa;Lucia Fadda

  • Hippocampal atrophy is the critical brain change in patients with hypoxic amnesia.

    M. Di Paola;C. Caltagirone;L. Fadda;U. Sabatini

  • Neuropsychological correlates of behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease, frontal variant of frontotemporal, subcortical vascular, and lewy body dementias: a comparative study.

    Roberta Perri;Marco Monaco;Lucia Fadda;Carlo Caltagirone

  • Alzheimer's disease and frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia-- a very brief battery for cognitive and behavioural distinction.

    Roberta Perri;Giacomo Koch;Giovanni A. Carlesimo;Laura Serra

  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer Disease

    Laura Serra;M Cercignani;Laura Petrosini;Barbara Basile

  • Bilateral damage to the mammillo-thalamic tract impairs recollection but not familiarity in the recognition process: A single case investigation

    G.A. Carlesimo;L. Serra;L. Fadda;A. Cherubini

  • Predicting disease progression in alzheimer's disease: The role of neuropsychiatric syndromes on functional and cognitive decline

    Katie Palmer;Federica Lupo;Roberta Perri;Giovanna Salamone

  • Recollection and familiarity in hippocampal amnesia.

    Patrizia Turriziani;Laura Serra;Lucia Fadda;Carlo Caltagirone

  • Reduced oxygen due to high-altitude exposure relates to atrophy in motor-function brain areas.

    M. D. Paola;M. Bozzali;L. Fadda;M. Musicco

  • Recollection and familiarity in amnesic mild cognitive impairment.

    Laura Serra;Marco Bozzali;Mara Cercignani;Roberta Perri

  • Cognitive and behavioural predictors of progression rates in Alzheimer's disease.

    I. Buccione;R. Perri;G. A. Carlesimo;L. Fadda

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Roberta Perri
Roberta Perri Catholic University of America
Laura Serra
Laura Serra University of Barcelona
Marco Bozzali
Marco Bozzali Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Mara Cercignani
Mara Cercignani Cardiff University
Camillo Marra
Camillo Marra Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Francesco Tomaiuolo
Francesco Tomaiuolo University of Messina
Gianfranco Spalletta
Gianfranco Spalletta Baylor College of Medicine
Umberto Sabatini
Umberto Sabatini Magna Graecia University

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