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Michela Pievani is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work encompasses topics in Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, and Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments.

Notable recent publications include:

  • A peripheral signature of Alzheimer's disease featuring microbiota-gut-brain axis markers, 2023, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Using normative modelling to detect disease progression in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease in a cross-sectional multi-cohort study, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Amygdalar nuclei and hippocampal subfields on MRI: Test-retest reliability of automated volumetry across different MRI sites and vendors, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Breakdown of specific functional brain networks in clinical variants of Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Ageing Research Reviews
  • Brain connectivity and metacognition in persons with subjective cognitive decline (COSCODE): rationale and study design, 2021, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Nutrition Journal

Collaborations have been common with several co-authors, notably:

  • Giovanni B. Frisoni
  • Moira Marizzoni
  • Giulia Quattrini
  • Valentina Garibotto
  • Cristina Festari

Best Publications

  • Brain atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease and aging.

    Lorenzo Pini;Michela Pievani;Martina Bocchetta;Daniele Altomare

  • Resting state fMRI in Alzheimer's disease: beyond the default mode network.

    Federica Agosta;Michela Pievani;Cristina Geroldi;Massimiliano Copetti

  • Presymptomatic cognitive and neuroanatomical changes in genetic frontotemporal dementia in the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) study: a cross-sectional analysis

    Jonathan D Rohrer;Jennifer M Nicholas;Jennifer M Nicholas;David M Cash;John van Swieten

  • Functional Network Disruption in the Degenerative Dementias

    Michela Pievani;Willem de Haan;Tao Wu;William W Seeley

  • The topography of grey matter involvement in early and late onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Giovanni B. Frisoni;Michela Pievani;Cristina Testa;Francesca Sabattoli

  • White matter damage in Alzheimer disease and its relationship to gray matter atrophy.

    Federica Agosta;Michela Pievani;Stefania Sala;Cristina Geroldi

  • Brain connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases—from phenotype to proteinopathy

    Michela Pievani;Nicola Filippini;Martijn P. Van Den Heuvel;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Age at symptom onset and death and disease duration in genetic frontotemporal dementia: an international retrospective cohort study.

    Katrina M. Moore;Jennifer Nicholas;Murray Grossman;Corey T. McMillan

  • Cortex and amygdala morphology in psychopathy.

    Marina Boccardi;Giovanni B. Frisoni;Robert D. Hare;Enrica Cavedo

  • Hippocampal volume and cortical sources of EEG alpha rhythms in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    Claudio Babiloni;Giovanni B. Frisoni;Michela Pievani;Fabrizio Vecchio

  • Disease Tracking Markers for Alzheimer's Disease at the Prodromal (MCI) Stage

    Valeria Drago;Claudio Babiloni;David Bartrés-Faz;Anna Caroli

  • Survey of protocols for the manual segmentation of the hippocampus: Preparatory steps towards a joint EADC-ADNI harmonized protocol

    Marina Boccardi;Rossana Ganzola;Martina Bocchetta;Michela Pievani

  • Serum neurofilament light chain in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal, multicentre cohort study

    Emma L van der Ende;Lieke H Meeter;Jackie M Poos;Jessica L Panman

  • APOE4 is associated with greater atrophy of the hippocampal formation in Alzheimer's disease.

    Michela Pievani;Samantha Galluzzi;Paul M. Thompson;Paul E. Rasser

  • Assessment of white matter tract damage in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

    Michela Pievani;Federica Agosta;Elisabetta Pagani;Elisa Canu

  • Training labels for hippocampal segmentation based on the EADC-ADNI harmonized hippocampal protocol.

    Marina Boccardi;Martina Bocchetta;Félix C. Morency;D. Louis Collins

  • Pattern of brain tissue loss associated with freezing of gait in Parkinson disease

    V.S. Kostić;F. Agosta;M. Pievani;E. Stefanova

  • Increase of theta/gamma ratio is associated with memory impairment

    D.V. Moretti;C. Fracassi;M. Pievani;C. Geroldi

  • MCI patients’ EEGs show group differences between those who progress and those who do not progress to AD

    DV Moretti;GB Frisoni;C Fracassi;M Pievani

  • Robust Automated Detection of Microstructural White Matter Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Machine Learning Classification of Multicenter DTI Data

    Martin Dyrba;Michael Ewers;Martin Wegrzyn;Ingo Kilimann

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Marina Boccardi
Marina Boccardi German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Claudio Babiloni
Claudio Babiloni Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Maria Rossini
Paolo Maria Rossini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Samantha Galluzzi
Samantha Galluzzi University of Tokyo
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Alessandro Padovani
Alessandro Padovani University of Brescia
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
Roberta Lizio
Roberta Lizio Sapienza University of Rome
Maria Cotelli
Maria Cotelli University of Brescia

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