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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Stefano F. Cappa is primarily affiliated with the Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases.

The main fields of study in which Stefano F. Cappa publishes include Medicine and Neuroscience. Within these broad domains, their work concentrates on several subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Neurology
  • Physiology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The scientist's research topics cover a range of contemporary issues:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Text Readability and Simplification

Stefano F. Cappa has authored or contributed to multiple papers, including several with significant citation counts. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group," 2021, published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "Alzheimer Disease as a Clinical-Biological Construct-An International Working Group Recommendation," 2024, published in JAMA Neurology
  • "Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: the role of biomarkers including advanced EEG signal analysis. Report from the IFCN-sponsored panel of experts," 2020, published in Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Covid-19 Outbreak In Italy: Are We Ready for the Psychosocial and the Economic Crisis? Baseline Findings From the PsyCovid Study," 2020, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "European intersocietal recommendations for the biomarker-based diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders," 2024, published in The Lancet Neurology

Frequent co-authors in Stefano F. Cappa's work include:

  • Eleonora Catricalà
  • Chiara Cerami
  • Francesca Conca
  • Alessandra Dodich
  • Camillo Marra

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, including:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Neurology
  • Neurological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants

    M L Gorno-Tempini;M L Gorno-Tempini;A E Hillis;S Weintraub;A Kertesz

  • Advancing research diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease: the IWG-2 criteria

    Bruno Dubois;Bruno Dubois;Howard H Feldman;Claudia Jacova;Harald Hampel;Harald Hampel

  • Dyslexia: cultural diversity and biological unity.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Jean Francois Demonet;Ferruccio Fazio;Eamon McCrory

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

    Marco Tettamanti;Giovanni Buccino;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese

  • The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.

    Daniela Perani;Eraldo Paulesu;Nuria Sebastian Galles;Emmanuel Dupoux

  • Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the International Working Group.

    Bruno Dubois;Nicolas Villain;Giovanni B. Frisoni;Gil D. Rabinovici

  • A cultural effect on brain function.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Eamon McCrory;Ferruccio Fazio;L. Menoncello

  • The logopenic/phonological variant of primary progressive aphasia

    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini;Simona Maria Brambati;Valeria Ginex;Jennifer M. Ogar;Jennifer M. Ogar;Jennifer M. Ogar

  • Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain

    Isabell Wartenburger;Hauke R. Heekeren;Hauke R. Heekeren;Jubin Abutalebi;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Bilingualism Tunes the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Conflict Monitoring

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David W. Green;Mireia Hernandez

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Brain Structural Changes and Neurocognitive Function before and after Treatment

    Nicola Canessa;Vincenza Castronovo;Stefano F. Cappa;Mark S. Aloia

  • Nouns and verbs in the brain: A review of behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological and imaging studies

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Judit Druks;Horacio Barber

  • Brain processing of native and foreign languages.

    Daniela Perani;Stanislas Dehaene;Franco Grassi;Laurent Cohen

  • Strategic roadmap for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on biomarkers

    Giovanni B Frisoni;Marina Boccardi;Frederik Barkhof;Kaj Blennow;Kaj Blennow

  • The neural correlates of verb and noun processing: A PET study

    Daniela Perani;Stefano F. Cappa;Tatiana T. Schnur;Marco Tettamanti

  • The neural systems sustaining face and proper-name processing.

    M L Gorno-Tempini;C J Price;O Josephs;Rik Vandenberghe

  • Consensus classification of posterior cortical atrophy

    Sebastian J. Crutch;Jonathan M. Schott;Gil D. Rabinovici;Melissa Murray

  • The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: an fMRI study during verbal fluency

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Eraldo Paulesu;Simona Brambati

  • Remission of hemineglect and anosognosia during vestibular stimulation.

    Stefano F. Cappa;Roberto Sterzi;Giuseppe Vallar;Edoardo Bisiach

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2005 17: 273-281

    Giovanni Buccino Marco Tettamanti;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese;Massimo Danna

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Daniela Galimberti
Daniela Galimberti University of Milan
Elio Scarpini
Elio Scarpini University of Milan
Nicola Canessa
Nicola Canessa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Andrea Falini
Andrea Falini Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sandro Iannaccone
Sandro Iannaccone Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Nereo Bresolin
Nereo Bresolin University of Milan
Giuseppe Magnani
Giuseppe Magnani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Giuliano Binetti
Giuliano Binetti Sacred Heart Hospital
Marco Tettamanti
Marco Tettamanti University of Milano-Bicocca

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