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Overview

Maria Leggio is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with substantial work in subfields including neurology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, psychiatry, mental health, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their research include vestibular and auditory disorders, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurological disorders, treatments, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Maria Leggio has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Giusy Olivito, Libera Siciliano, Michela Lupo, Silvia Clausi, and Marco Bozzali.

Their recent publications include:

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition, 2020, published in The Cerebellum
  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Ageing, 2023, published in The Cerebellum
  • Cerebellar dentate nucleus functional connectivity with cerebral cortex in Alzheimer's disease and memory: a seed-based approach, 2020, published in Neurobiology of Aging
  • The neurobiological underpinning of the social cognition impairments in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 2, 2021, published in Cortex
  • The cerebellum is linked to theory of mind alterations in autism. A direct clinical and MRI comparison between individuals with autism and cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies, 2021, published in Autism Research

Publication venues where this scientist frequently publishes include The Cerebellum, Biomedicines, Journal of Neurology, Neurobiology of Aging, and Cortex.

Best Publications

  • Environmental enrichment promotes improved spatial abilities and enhanced dendritic growth in the rat.

    Maria Giuseppa Leggio;Laura Mandolesi;Francesca Federico;Francesca Federico;Francesca Spirito

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion

    M Adamaszek;Federico D'Agata;R. Ferrucci;C. Habas

  • Consensus Paper: Language and the Cerebellum: an Ongoing Enigma

    Peter Mariën;Herman Ackermann;Michael Adamaszek;Caroline H S Barwood

  • Consensus Paper: The Role of the Cerebellum in Perceptual Processes

    Oliver Baumann;Ronald J. Borra;Ronald J. Borra;James M. Bower;Kathleen E. Cullen

  • Cerebellum and procedural learning: evidence from focal cerebellar lesions

    Marco Molinari;Maria G. Leggio;Alessandra Solida;Roberto Ciorra

  • The cerebellum contributes to linguistic production: A case of agrammatic speech following a right cerebellar lesion

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Maria Giuseppa Leggio;Marco Molinari

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition

    Frank Van Overwalle;Mario Manto;Zaira Cattaneo;Silvia Clausi

  • The cerebellar cognitive profile

    Anna M. Tedesco;Francesca R. Chiricozzi;Silvia Clausi;Michela Lupo

  • Phonological grouping is specifically affected in cerebellar patients: a verbal fluency study

    Maria Giuseppa Leggio;Maria Caterina Silveri;Laura Petrosini;Marco Molinari

  • On whether the environmental enrichment may provide cognitive and brain reserves.

    Laura Petrosini;Paola De Bartolo;Francesca Foti;Francesca Gelfo

  • Cerebellar Sequencing: a Trick for Predicting the Future

    Maria Leggio;M. Molinari

  • The Cerebellar Cognitive Affective/Schmahmann Syndrome: a Task Force Paper

    Georgios P D Argyropoulos;Kim van Dun;Michael Adamaszek;Maria Leggio

  • Verbal short-term store-rehearsal system and the cerebellum. Evidence from a patient with a right cerebellar lesion.

    M C Silveri;A M Di Betta;V Filippini;M G Leggio

  • Cognitive sequencing impairment in patients with focal or atrophic cerebellar damage.

    M. G. Leggio;A. M. Tedesco;F. R. Chiricozzi;S. Clausi

  • Cerebellum and Detection of Sequences, from Perception to Cognition

    Marco Molinari;Francesca R. Chiricozzi;Silvia Clausi;Anna Maria Tedesco

  • Auditory thalamocortical pathways defined in monkeys by calcium‐binding protein immunoreactivity

    M. Molinari;M. E. Dell'Anna;E. Rausell;M. G. Leggio

  • Neurobiology of Rhythmic Motor Entrainment

    Marco Molinari;Maria G. Leggio;Martina De Martin;Antonio Cerasa

  • The cerebellum in the spatial problem solving: a co-star or a guest star?

    Laura Petrosini;Maria G Leggio;Marco Molinari

  • Visuospatial abilities in cerebellar disorders.

    M Molinari;L Petrosini;S Misciagna;M G Leggio

  • Cerebellar damage impairs detection of somatosensory input changes. A somatosensory mismatch-negativity study

    Domenico Restuccia;Giacomo Della Marca;Massimiliano Valeriani;Maria Giuseppa Leggio

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Petrosini
Laura Petrosini Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Bozzali
Marco Bozzali Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Mara Cercignani
Mara Cercignani Cardiff University
Maria Caterina Silveri
Maria Caterina Silveri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Domenico Restuccia
Domenico Restuccia Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Raffaele Nardone
Raffaele Nardone Paracelsus Medical University
V. Di Lazzaro
V. Di Lazzaro Università Campus Bio-Medico
Jeremy D. Schmahmann
Jeremy D. Schmahmann Harvard Medical School
Edward G. Jones
Edward G. Jones University of California, Davis

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