CURRICULUM VITAE Emanuele Lo Gerfo
Date and Place of Birth: 20 december 1975, Palermo Italy
Education 2009 PhD in Neuropsychology Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma - Italy 2003 Degree in Experimental Psychology (magna cum laude) Università degli studi di Palermo– Italy 1994 High school degree, Liceo Scientifico D’Alessandro Bagheria Current Position Post doc researcher at the Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences – Section of Physiology, at the University of Verona. Supervision of Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi Professional Experience 2006-2008 PhD Student in Neuropsychology Activity
IRCSS Fondazione Santa Lucia – laboratory of transcranial magntic stimulation (TMS) – Roma – Italy. Research Supervisor: Professor Massimiliano Oliveri
Evaluation of cognitive deficits in patients affected by dementia and cerebral focal lesions, using neuropsychological batteries. Fondazione “S.Lucia” – Rome- Italy. Research Supervisor: Professor Carlo Caltagirone. 2008-2009 Seminar lectures for academic undergraduate courses of Psycophysiology at the Università degli studi di Palermo– Italy 2004-2005 Apprenticeship IRCSS Fondazione Santa Lucia – laboratory of magntic transcranial stimulation (TMS) – Roma – Italy Research Supervisor: Professor Carlo Caltagirone and Massimiliano Oliveri Current research interests The main research interests are in the study of cognitive functions using the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) technique in healthy subjects and in patients affected by neurological damages. The main field of investigation is: the relationship between language and motor system; the effects of TMS or TBS (theta burst stimulation) on the improvement of cognitive functions in aphasics patients with unilateral stroke; the role of the cerebellum and other brain structures in the processes of perception and attention. Publications
Lo Gerfo E., Oliveri M., Torriero S., Salerno S., Koch G., Caltagirone C. The influence of rTMS over prefrontal and motor areas in a morphological task: grammatical VS. semantic effect. Neuropsychologia 46: 764-70 (2008). Koch G, Brusa L, Carrillo F, Lo Gerfo E, Torriero S, Oliveri M, Mir P, Caltagirone C, Stanzione P. Cerebellar magnetic stimulation decreases levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson disease. Neurology. 14; 113-9. (2009) Brusa L, Agrò EF, Petta F, Sciobica F, Torriero S, Lo Gerfo E, Iani C, Stanzione P, Koch G. Effects of inhibitory rTMS on bladder function in Parkinson's disease patients. Mov Disord. 15; 445-8. (2009) Koch G., Oliveri M., Cheeran B., Ruge D., Lo Gerfo E., Salerno S., Torriero S., Marconi B., Mori F., Driver J.,. Rothwell J. C., Caltagirone C. Hyperexcitability of parietal-motor functional connections in the intact left-hemisphere of patients with neglect. Brain Accepted September 22, (2008) Torriero S., Oliveri M., Koch G., Lo Gerfo E., Salerno S., Petrosini L., Caltagirone C. Cortical networks of procedural learning: evidence from cerebellar damage. Neuropsychologia 45(6):1208- 14 (2007). Koch,G., Mori, F., Marconi, B., Codecà, C., Pecchioli, C., Salerno, S., Torriero, S., Lo Gerfo, E Mir, P., Oliveri, M., Caltagirone, C. Changes in intracortical circuits of the human motor cortex following theta burst stimulation of the lateral cerebellum. Clin Neurophysiol. Sep 26 2008 Koch G., Costa A., Brusa L., Peppe A., Gatto I., Torriero s., Lo Gerfo E., Salerno S., Oliveri M., Carlesimo G A., Caltagirone C., Impaired reproduction of second but not millesecond time intervals in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychologia. Apr;46(5):1305-13. 2008 Repetitive TMS of cerebellum interferes with millisecond time processing. Exp Brain Res. May;179(2):291-9. 2007 Zannino, GD., Buccione, I., Perri, R., Macaluso, E., Lo Gerfo, E., Caltagirone, C., Carlesimo, GA. Visualand semantic contribution to category-specificity: an fMRI study. J Cogn Neurosci. (2009) Oliveri M., Salerno S., Koch G., Torriero S., Lo Gerfo E., Caltagirone C. Representation of time intervals in the right posterior parietal cortex: implication for a mental time line. NeuroImage 2009 Jul 15;46(4):1173-9 Koch G, Brusa L, Carrillo F, Lo Gerfo E, Torriero S, Oliveri M, Mir P, Caltagirone C, Stanzione P. Cerebellar magnetic stimulation decreases levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson disease. Neurology. 2009 Jul 14;73(2):113-9. Koch G., Ruge D., Cheeran B., Fernandez Del Olmo M., Pecchioli C., Marconi B., Versace V., Lo Gerfo E., Torriero S., Oliveri M., Caltagirone C., Rothwella JC. Activation of interhemispheric pathways between the posterior parietal cortex and the contralateral motor cortex. Journal of Physiology 2009 Jul 21 Conference and Poster Presentation
“Effects of rTMS of the left prefrontal and motor cortex on a morphological task in nouns and verbs”. AIP, Como 17/19 settembre 2007
“Left middle frontal gyrus and left motor area in the processing of grammatical and semantic information. A TMS study”. First meeting of the European Societies of Neuropsychology 2-5 settembre 2008.(poster)
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