Antonio Cerasa

Biography

 I was born In Pescara on 13/01/1976 and I attended Scientific High School on 1994. During the graduate (University of Psychology in Rome) and post-graduate period (Neuroimaging Lab, IRCCS Santa Lucia in Rome) I started entertaining interests on neurocognitive correlates of PD, publishing my first papers on the neurofunctional correlates of motor and cognitive disorders. Moreover, in the 2008, at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, my scientific interest has veered strongly towards the translational application of imaging technique in the clinic, which allow me to publish one of the first translational imaging genetic study on the role of the COMT gene (one of the gene strongly involved in pathophysiological mechanisms of PD) in cognition (Sannino & Gozzi & Cerasa et al., Cerebral Cortex 2015). From 2010, at the Neuroimaging Unit of the Institute of BioImaging and Molecular Physiology, I expanded my research to include neurophysiological changes associated with PD, combining neuroimaging findings with those coming from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation protocol. This scientific approach has allowed me to open a new line of research on the real impact of levodopa therapy on the PD’s brain (Cerasa et al., BRAIN, 2015).

Research Interest

 Psychology,neurofunctional