Giuseppe Vallar

Giuseppe Vallar, MD, is a neurologist, Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuros...view moreGiuseppe Vallar, MD, is a neurologist, Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; he is the head of the Neuropsychological Laboratory of the IRCCS Italian Auxological Institute. He has worked in the Universities of Milano, and Sapienza in Rome. His main interests concern human neuropsychology, particularly: spatial and bodily cognition, their disorders (unilateral spatial neglect, somatoparaphrenia), and their neural correlates; the modulation of higher cognitive functions by sensory and transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation; short-term (immediate) verbal memory, its disorders after brain damage, and its neural correlates; the assessment and rehabilitation of neuropsychological deficits, particularly unilateral spatial neglect. G. Vallar is the author of over 200 scientific publications, the editor of the books The cognitive and neural bases of spatial neglect (2002, with Hans-Otto Karnath and A. David Milner), of Neuropsychological disorders associated with subcortical lesions (1992, with Stefano F. Cappa and Claus W. Wallesch), of Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory (1990, with Tim Shallice), and of two special issues of the Journal Cortex: Neuroplasticity: behavioral and neural aspects (2014, with Costanza Papagno), and Spatial Neglect. A representational disorder? A Festschrift for Edoardo Bisiach (2004, with John C. Marshall).view less