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.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Laterality of Emotions
Neuropsychology of dem...
Unilateral spatial neg...
Category-specific sema...
Verbal and non-verbal ...
Familiar people recogn...
Anosognosia
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Familiar people recognition disorders
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Anosognosia
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Category-specific semantic disorders
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Laterality of Emotions
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Verbal and non-verbal semantic representations
Short Biography
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.
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