Novellino Fabiana

Bio sketch

 

Degree in Medicine and Surgery

Residency in Neurology

Research Fellow – Neuroimaging Research Unit- Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council (IBFM-CNR), Catanzaro (2001-to date)

Lecturer of “Medical Statistics” and “Neurology”, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro (2012 – to date)

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5898-938X

Scopus Author ID: 23569887800

 

 

Research Topics

 

Identification of early clinical and imaging biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

Structural and functional MRI applied to movement disorders and dementias

Dat-Spect and MIBG scintigraphy in clinically indistinguishable tremor disorders

Quantification and functional characterization of PET brain abnormalities in neurodegenerative dementias by means of PET different tracers.

 

CV

 

 

National Collaborations

 

Institute of Neurology “Magna Graecia” University, Catanzaro

Institute of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, “Magna Graecia” University, Catanzaro

Department of Health Sciences, “Magna Graecia” University, Catanzaro

 

International Collaborations

 

Prof. Fernando Maestu, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Madrid, Spain (Multimodal imaging study on patterns of cognitive decline and rates of conversion to dementia in patients with MCI)

 

Prof. Ellen Sidransky, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (International multicenter study on the role of mutations in the Glucocerebrosidase gene as a risk factor for the development of Lewy’s Dementia)

 

Selected recent publications

 

• • Novellino F, Saccà V, Donato A, Zaffino P, Spadea MF, Vismara M, Arcidiacono B, Malara N, Presta I, Donato G. Innate Immunity: A Common Denominator between Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric Diseases. Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(3):1115.

• • Novellino F, Vasta R, Saccà V, Nisticò R, Morelli M, Arabia G, Chiriaco C, Barbagallo G, Nicoletti G, Salsone M, Quattrone A. Hippocampal impairment in patients with Essential Tremor. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2020;72:56-61.

• • Novellino F, Lopez Garcia ME, Vaccaro MG, Miguel Y, Luisa DM and Maestu F. Association Between Hippocampus, Thalamus, and Caudate in Mild Cognitive Impairment APOEε4 Carriers: A Structural Covariance MRI Study Front. Neurol. 2019;10:1303.

• • Novellino F, Vasta R, Sarica A, Chiriaco C, Salsone M, Morelli M, Arabia G, Saccà V, Nicoletti G, Quattrone A. Relationship between Hippocampal Subfields and Category Cued Recall in AD and PDD: A Multimodal MRI Study. Neuroscience. 2018;371:506-517.

• • Novellino F, Nicoletti G, Cherubini A, Caligiuri ME, Nisticò R, Salsone M, Morelli M, Arabia G, Cavalli SM, Vaccaro MG, Chiriaco C, Quattrone A. Cerebellar involvement in essential tremor with and without resting tremor: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging study. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2016;27:61-6.

• • Cerasa A*, Novellino F* (co-first authorship), Quattrone A. Connectivity Changes in Parkinson’s Disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2016;16:91-102

• • Novellino F, Cherubini A, Chiriaco C, Morelli M, Salsone M, Arabia G, Quattrone A. Brain iron deposition in essential tremor: a quantitative 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging study. Mov Disord 2013;28:196-200.

• • Nalls MA, Duran R, Lopez G, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, McKeith IG, Chinnery PF, Morris CM, Theuns J, Crosiers D, Cras P, Engelborghs S, De Deyn PP, Van Broeckhoven C, Mann DM, Snowden J, Pickering-Brown S, Halliwell N, Davidson Y, Gibbons L, Harris J, Sheerin UM, Bras J, Hardy J, Clark L, Marder K, Honig LS, Berg D, Maetzler W, Brockmann K, Gasser T, Novellino F, Quattrone A, Annesi G, De Marco EV, Rogaeva E, Masellis M, Black SE, Bilbao JM, Foroud T, Ghetti B, Nichols WC, Pankratz N, Halliday G, Lesage S, Klebe S, Durr A, Duyckaerts C, Brice A, Giasson BI, Trojanowski JQ, Hurtig HI, Tayebi N, Landazabal C, Knight MA, Keller M, Singleton AB, Wolfsberg TG, Sidransky E. A multicenter study of glucocerebrosidase mutations in dementia with Lewy bodies. JAMA Neurol 2013;70:727-35.

• • Passamonti L, Novellino F, Cerasa A, Chiriaco C, Rocca F, Matina MS, Fera F, Quattrone A. Altered cortical-cerebellar circuits during verbal working memory in essential tremor. Brain 2011;134:2274-2286

• • Novellino F, Bagnato A, Salsone M, Cascini GL, Nicoletti G, Arabia G, Pugliese P, Morelli M, Paglionico S, Cipullo S, Manna I, De Marco EV, Condino F, Chiriaco C, Morgante L, Zappia M, Quattrone A. Myocardial (123)I-MIBG scintigraphy for differentiation of Lewy bodies disease from FTD. Neurobiol Aging. 2010 Nov;31(11):1903-11