Guido Gainotti was born in Italy in 1939. He received his M.D. from Parma University in 1963 and was a Full Professor of Neurology and 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 first advanced the hypothesis of right-hemisphere dominance for emotional behavior and has authored papers on (a) the mechanisms underlying unilateral spatial neglect syndrome; (b) the nature of semantic–lexical disorders in aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease; (c) the nature and the anatomical correlates of category-specific semantic disorders; and (d) the mechanisms and anatomical substrates of familiar people recognition. He has published about 300 papers in international journals of neurology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, and has been an editor of international books.