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Guido Gainotti Author & Editor

Guido Gainotti was a Full Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Institute of  Neurology of the Catholic University of Rome until 2012. He is now Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the same University.

He was a member of the Editorial Boards of numerous international journals (e.g. Aphasiology, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Functional Neurology, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Rehabilitation and Health) and of the Handbook of Neuropsychology. Dr. Gainotti is also Acting Editor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. He recently edited a Special Issue of Frontiers in Bioscience entitled: 'Familiar people recognition disorders' (2014) and a Special Section of Neuropsychologia dealing with ‘familiar voice recognition’.

He has published about 300 papers in international journals in the fields of neurology, neuropsychology, psychiatry and neurosciences as well as books mainly dealing with topics of cognitive and clinical neuropsychology and of cognitive neurosciences.

His research on the different emotional reactions of right and left brain-damaged patients allowed him to first advance the hypothesis of a right hemisphere dominance for emotional behaviour. He has also authored papers on topics such as: (a) the mechanisms underlying the unilateral spatial neglect syndrome; (b) the nature of semantic-lexical disorders in aphasia and in Alzheimer’s disease; (c) the nature and the anatomical correlates of category-specific semantic disorders; (d) the mechanisms and anatomical substrates of familiar people recognition; (e) the mechanisms and anatomical substrates of multimodal people recognition disorders; and (f) the neuropsychological features that differentiate Alzheimer's disease from the other clinical forms of dementia and that best predict the progression from MCI to dementia.