Prof. Marcellino Monda

Marcellino Monda is a Full Professor of Physiology (scientific disciplinary field BIO-09) at the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy and President of the Napoli Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. He is also the Director of the School of Specialisation in Sports Medicine at the School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, the Director of the UOC of Dietetics, Sports Medicine, and Psychophysical Wellbeing at the University Hospital of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and Rector’s Delegate for Sport. His main lines of research (on laboratory animals and humans) are (1) Nervous control of body temperature. (2) Correlations between thermogenesis and eating behavior. (3) Cortical and hypothalamic control of vegetative functions. (4) Autonomic responses to stimulation with orexin A under various conditions, including those from the administration of psychotropic drugs. (5) Control of nociceptive transmission. (6) Metabolic-vegetative structure in physiological and pathological conditions (obesity and diabetes).