Raffaele Nardone is the chair of the Department of Neurology, Franz Tappeiner Hospital, Merano, Italy. He is a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist, who received his PhD in neuroscience from the Catholic University of Rome in 2006. He has been an Assistant Professor since 2008 and Associate Professor since 2008 at Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg. He is the author of more than 280 scientific articles, most of them in the field of clinical neurophysiology, transcranial magnetic stimulation, dementia and spinal cord disorders.