Since the early 1960s, human neuropsychol- ogy, the study of brain-behavior interrelations, mainly based on the analysis of their pathological variations, brought about by brain damage, has had a remarkable systematical development in Italy. All this started in Milan, with the neurologist Ennio de Renzi, and his collaborators (Luigi Vignolo, then Anna Basso, Pietro Faglioni, Hans Spinnler, Franc ̧ois Boller, and, more autonomously, Edo- ardo Bisiach), in the Clinic of Nervous and Mental Dis- eases. Scientists of the ‘‘Milan group’’ investigated several neuropsychological deficits caused by focal hemispheric lesions in large series of left- and right-brain-damaged patients, and control participants, comparable for cultural and demographic variables. Standardized tests and advanced statistical methods were used, which also applied to the diagnosis and rehabilitation of aphasia. Subse- quently, neuropsychology developed in Italy extensively, reaching high international reputation. Leading neuropsy- chologists have been the neurologists Guido Gainotti (Rome), and Franco Denes (Padua), the physicians and psychologists Luigi Pizzamiglio (Rome), and Carlo Umilta` (Parma, with fruitful interactions with the neurophysiolo- gists Giovanni Berlucchi, Giacomo Rizzolatti, and Carlo Marzi, from the school of Giuseppe Moruzzi in Pisa) A second scientific generation of neuropsychologists has then developed in the 1970s, trained by the abovementioned scientists, further boosting and spreading high-level basic and applied research (diagnosis and rehabilitation of neu- ropsychological deficits of patients with brain damage or dysfunction throughout the life span, from childhood to the elderly). Available techniques include structural and functional imaging (CT, PET, SPET, MRI and fMRI Scans, DTI), electrophysiological recording (EEG, ERPs), non- invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tES), and their combined use.
Vallar, G., Boller, F., Grossi, D., Gainotti, G. (2015). Erratum to: Italian neuropsychology in the second half of the twentieth century[Neurol Sci(2015), 36, 361-370, DOI 10.1007/s10072-014-2044-6] [Altro] [10.1007/s10072-015-2139-8].
Erratum to: Italian neuropsychology in the second half of the twentieth century[Neurol Sci(2015), 36, 361-370, DOI 10.1007/s10072-014-2044-6]
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Abstract
Since the early 1960s, human neuropsychol- ogy, the study of brain-behavior interrelations, mainly based on the analysis of their pathological variations, brought about by brain damage, has had a remarkable systematical development in Italy. All this started in Milan, with the neurologist Ennio de Renzi, and his collaborators (Luigi Vignolo, then Anna Basso, Pietro Faglioni, Hans Spinnler, Franc ̧ois Boller, and, more autonomously, Edo- ardo Bisiach), in the Clinic of Nervous and Mental Dis- eases. Scientists of the ‘‘Milan group’’ investigated several neuropsychological deficits caused by focal hemispheric lesions in large series of left- and right-brain-damaged patients, and control participants, comparable for cultural and demographic variables. Standardized tests and advanced statistical methods were used, which also applied to the diagnosis and rehabilitation of aphasia. Subse- quently, neuropsychology developed in Italy extensively, reaching high international reputation. Leading neuropsy- chologists have been the neurologists Guido Gainotti (Rome), and Franco Denes (Padua), the physicians and psychologists Luigi Pizzamiglio (Rome), and Carlo Umilta` (Parma, with fruitful interactions with the neurophysiolo- gists Giovanni Berlucchi, Giacomo Rizzolatti, and Carlo Marzi, from the school of Giuseppe Moruzzi in Pisa) A second scientific generation of neuropsychologists has then developed in the 1970s, trained by the abovementioned scientists, further boosting and spreading high-level basic and applied research (diagnosis and rehabilitation of neu- ropsychological deficits of patients with brain damage or dysfunction throughout the life span, from childhood to the elderly). Available techniques include structural and functional imaging (CT, PET, SPET, MRI and fMRI Scans, DTI), electrophysiological recording (EEG, ERPs), non- invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tES), and their combined use.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.