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The Cognitive Neuroscience Section

 

The Cognitive Neuroscience section is a research group headed by Professor Carlo Miniussi, at the IRCCS San Giovanni di Dio in Brescia.

The Scientific institute "San Giovanni di Dio" (St John of God) - national center for research and care of Alzheimer's and Psychiatric disorders is a hospital based in Brescia, Northern Italy, and owned by the Fatebenefratelli Friars (Lombardy Veneto Province Hospitaller Order of St John of God, The Brothers of St John of God). The Institute is existing since 120 years and has appointed since 1996 as a Scientific Institute and funded by the Italian Ministry of Health as the national centre of excellence in research and care. The institute has a staff of physicians and psychologists who treat 4500 persons with Alzheimer's Dementia or associated disorders and 1700 with mental disorders yearly. About fifty professional researchers work in the laboratories of Genetics, Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurobiology, Proteomic, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, Neuropsychology, Ethic and Epidemiology. On average these researchers produce more than 60 authoritative scientific papers yearly, all published in international journals with an overall 300 points of impact factor.

 

The Cognitive Neuroscience section include the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and the Laboratory of Neuropsychology