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您好！实验室舒华老师和丁国盛老师共同邀请了意大利Vita Salute S. Raffaele  University的Stefano F.  Cappa教授来实验室作学术报告，欢迎感兴趣的老师参加。

报告时间：12月16日上午10:00-11:30

报告地点：脑成像中心309会议室（小会议室）

报告题目：Translational cognitive  neuroscience in neurodegenerative diseases

报告摘要：

Clinical neuropsychology has a  crucial role in the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. The recent  interest in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the fronto-temporal dementia  spectrum (FTD) has raised the interest in specific and sensitive tools for the  assessment of cognition. In my talk I will discuss the implications of current  cognitive neuroscience models, in particular in the areas of language and social  cognition, for the development of new diagnostic tools. In addition, the  contribution of neurodegenerative diseases to our understanding of the  large-scale brain networks subserving these functions is highlighted by the  recent advances in structural and functional neuroimaging, based on positron  emission tomography and magnetic resonance, in combination with innovative  testing procedures.

报告人简介：

Stefano F. Cappa received his M.D. at  the University of Milano,.in which he completed his neurology training. He has  held assistant professor and associate professor positions in Neurology and  Neurological Rehabilitation at the University of Brescia, and has been full  professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Vita Salute S. Raffaele University  from 1999. He is now professor and head of the biomedical classes at IUSS Pavia,  Italy; he is also Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College,  London. He has spent research periods at Boston University, at the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, at University of California San Diego, at the Medical  Research Council Cyclotron Unit of Hammersmith Hospital in London and at the Max  Planck Institut for Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig. His main research areas  are: acquired and developmental language disorders; dementia and  neurodegenerative disorders: diagnosis, neuropsychological features, imaging,  cognitive studies of memory, language and social cognition; applications of  imaging/neurophysiological methods to the study of cognition, with a special  emphasis on language, semantic memory and social cognition (single photon  emission tomography, positron emission tomography, structural and functional  magnetic resonance imaging, evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic  stimulation); neuropsychological and neurological rehabilitation. He has  published more than 250 original paper in refereed journals, in addition to many  review papers, book chapters and 5 edited/authored books. His H index (Google  Scholar) is 65.

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