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Maria Luisa Mandelli is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Maria Luisa Mandelli's recent publications reflect their engagement with neurodegenerative diseases and language disorders. Notable papers include:

  • "Right temporal degeneration and socioemotional semantics: semantic behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia", 2022, Brain
  • "Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotemporal dementia", 2022, Brain
  • "Regional and hemispheric susceptibility of the temporal lobe to FTLD-TDP type C pathology", 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Speech production differences in English and Italian speakers with nonfluent variant PPA", 2020, Neurology
  • "Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia", 2022, Neurology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria Luisa Mandelli include:

  • Bruce L. Miller
  • Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
  • Zachary Miller
  • William W. Seeley
  • Howard J. Rosen

The scientist has contributed extensively to multiple publication venues. The most frequent of these are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • Brain
  • Cortex

The scope of Maria Luisa Mandelli's work integrates cognitive neuroscience and clinical neurology, emphasizing neurodegenerative conditions such as frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia. Their research examines brain connectivity, language production differences across languages, and the pathological mechanisms underlying dementia syndromes, employing advanced neuroimaging and transcriptomic methods.

Best Publications

  • Typical and atypical pathology in primary progressive aphasia variants.

    Edoardo G. Spinelli;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Zachary A. Miller;Miguel A Santos-Santos

  • Neural Stem Cell Engraftment and Myelination in the Human Brain

    Nalin Gupta;Roland G. Henry;Jonathan Strober;Sang-Mo Kang

  • Frontal White Matter Tracts Sustaining Speech Production in Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Maria Luisa Mandelli;Eduardo Caverzasi;Richard J. Binney;Maya L. Henry

  • Network degeneration and dysfunction in presymptomatic C9ORF72 expansion carriers

    Suzee E. Lee;Ana C. Sias;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Jesse A. Brown

  • Plasma 24S-hydroxycholesterol and caudate MRI in pre-manifest and early Huntington's disease

    Valerio Leoni;Caterina Mariotti;Sarah J. Tabrizi;Marta Valenza

  • Right temporal lobe and socioemotional semantics: semantic behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.

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  • Handedness and language learning disability differentially distribute in progressive aphasia variants

    Zachary A. Miller;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Katherine P. Rankin;Maya L. Henry

  • Healthy brain connectivity predicts atrophy progression in non-fluent variant of primary progressive aphasia.

    Maria Luisa Mandelli;Eduard Vilaplana;Jesse A. Brown;H. Isabel Hubbard

  • Functional Connectivity during Resting-State Functional MR Imaging: Study of the Correspondence between Independent Component Analysis and Region-of-Interest−Based Methods

    C Rosazza;Ludovico Minati;F Ghielmetti;M L Mandelli

  • Features of Patients With Nonfluent/Agrammatic Primary Progressive Aphasia With Underlying Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pathology or Corticobasal Degeneration

    Miguel A. Santos-Santos;Miguel A. Santos-Santos;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Richard J. Binney;Jennifer Ogar

  • Quantifying diffusion MRI tractography of the corticospinal tract in brain tumors with deterministic and probabilistic methods

    Monica Bucci;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Jeffrey I. Berman;Bagrat Amirbekian

  • Focal temporal pole atrophy and network degeneration in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia.

    Jessica A. Collins;Victor Montal;Daisy Hochberg;Megan Quimby

  • Retraining speech production and fluency in non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia

    Maya L Henry;H Isabel Hubbard;H Isabel Hubbard;Stephanie M Grasso;Maria Luisa Mandelli

  • What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing? neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

    Stephen M. Wilson;Andrew T. DeMarco;Maya L. Henry;Benno Gesierich

  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging Shows Different Topographic Involvement of the Thalamus in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degeneration

    Alessandra Erbetta;M. L. Mandelli;M. Savoiardo;M. Grisoli

  • Phonological processing in primary progressive aphasia

    Maya L. Henry;Stephen M. Wilson;Miranda C. Babiak;Maria Luisa Mandelli

  • Reading words and other people: A comparison of exception word, familiar face and affect processing in the left and right temporal variants of primary progressive aphasia.

    Richard J. Binney;Maya L. Henry;Miranda Babiak;Peter S. Pressman

  • Rates of Amyloid Imaging Positivity in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Miguel A. Santos-Santos;Gil D. Rabinovici;Gil D. Rabinovici;Leonardo Iaccarino;Leonardo Iaccarino;Nagehan Ayakta;Nagehan Ayakta

  • Quantifying accuracy and precision of diffusion MR tractography of the corticospinal tract in brain tumors

    Maria Luisa Mandelli;Mitchel S Berger;Monica Bucci;Jeffrey I Berman

  • Pain processing in medication overuse headache: a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study.

    Stefania Ferraro;Licia Grazzi;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Domenico Aquino

  • White matter involvement in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Eduardo Caverzasi;Maria Luisa Mandelli;Stephen J. DeArmond;Christopher P. Hess

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini University of California, San Francisco
Maya L. Henry
Maya L. Henry The University of Texas at Austin
Roland G. Henry
Roland G. Henry University of California, San Francisco
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Wilson
Stephen M. Wilson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Luisa Chiapparini
Luisa Chiapparini Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Ludovico Minati
Ludovico Minati University of Trento
Paolo Vitali
Paolo Vitali McGill University
Jesse A. Brown
Jesse A. Brown University of California, San Francisco
Fumiko Hoeft
Fumiko Hoeft University of Connecticut

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