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Overview

Roberta Perri is a researcher affiliated with the Catholic University of America in the United States, with a focus on neuroscience and medicine. Their publication record spans key areas such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and geriatrics and gerontology, with a primary emphasis on dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Perri's subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Physiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology

Their research topics cover a diverse range of subjects, primarily:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment Studies
  • Frailty in Older Adults

Perri has published in multiple scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Applied Neuropsychology Adult
  • Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
  • Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Among Perri's recent papers are:

  • "Verbal and spatial memory spans in mild cognitive impairment," 2021, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
  • "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
  • "Italian adaptation of the Uniform Data Set Neuropsychological Test Battery (I-UDSNB 1.0): development and normative data," 2022, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Recall and Recognition in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia," 2020, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Collaboration features prominently in Perri's career, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Carlo Caltagirone
  • Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
  • Lucia Fadda
  • Maria Stefania De Simone
  • Giulia Caruso

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of sleep disturbances in mild cognitive impairment and dementing disorders: a multicenter Italian clinical cross-sectional study on 431 patients.

    B. Guarnieri;F. Adorni;M. Musicco;I. Appollonio

  • Regional brain atrophy and functional disconnection across Alzheimer's disease evolution

    T Gili;M Cercignani;L Serra;R Perri

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

    Gianfranco Spalletta;Massimo Musicco;Alesandro Padovani;Luca Rozzini

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

    Laura Serra;Mara Cercignani;Delia Lenzi;Roberta Perri

  • Remembering What But Not Where: Independence of Spatial and Visual Working Memory in the Human Brain

    Giovanni A. Carlesimo;Roberta Perri;Patrizia Turriziani;Francesco Tomaiuolo

  • Predictors of progression of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: the role of vascular and sociodemographic factors.

    Massimo Musicco;Katie Palmer;Giovanna Salamone;Federica Lupo

  • 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

  • Damage to the cingulum contributes to Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology by deafferentation mechanism.

    Marco Bozzali;Giovanni Giulietti;Barbara Basile;Laura Serra

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

    Francesco Barban;Roberta Annicchiarico;Stelios Pantelopoulos;Alessia Federici

  • Characterization of memory profile in subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Roberta Perri;G. A. Carlesimo;L. Serra;C. Caltagirone

  • Amnestic mild cognitive impairment: difference of memory profile in subjects who converted or did not convert to Alzheimer's disease.

    Roberta Perri;Laura Serra;Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo;Carlo Caltagirone

  • 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

  • Anatomical connectivity mapping: a new tool to assess brain disconnection in Alzheimer's disease.

    Marco Bozzali;Geoffrey J. M. Parker;Laura Serra;Karl V. Embleton

  • 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

  • Category Cued Recall Following Controlled Encoding as a Neuropsychological Tool in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review of the Evidence

    Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo;Roberta Perri;Carlo Caltagirone

  • 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

  • Grammatical class effects in brain-damaged patients: functional locus of noun and verb deficit.

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Roberta Perri;Antonella Cappa

  • Category-specific impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease as a function of disease severity: a cross-sectional investigation

    Gian Daniele Zannino;Roberta Perri;Giovanni A Carlesimo;Patrizio Pasqualetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lucia Fadda
Lucia Fadda University of Rome Tor Vergata
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
Franco Giubilei
Franco Giubilei Sapienza University of Rome
Guido Gainotti
Guido Gainotti Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Patrizio Pasqualetti
Patrizio Pasqualetti Sapienza University of Rome

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