Giuseppe Lanza

Giuseppe Lanza
Neurologist, Department of Neurology
Oasi Institute, Troina , Italy

Biography

Giuseppe Lanza was born in Catania (Italy) in 1982. He is currently working as a Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Researcher at the Department of Neurology I.C. of the “Oasi” Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (I.R.C.C.S.) in Troina (Italy), which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Research and Training in Neuroscience. After graduation with honours in Medicine in 2007, he is trained at the School of Neurology of the University of Catania, and got the international PhD in “Basic and Applied Biomedical Sciences” at the same Institution. Lanza is specialized in cerebrovascular diseases and Neurosonology at the “Stroke Unit” based on the “Sant’Andrea Civic Hospital” in La Spezia (Italy). As visiting clinical research Fellow, he is further trained at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology of the “Royal Victoria Infirmary” and at the Department of Neuroscience, Newcastle University (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK). In 2013 he was selected for one of the six Scientific Fellowship promoted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), with a project titled “Visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies: a combined TMS/EEG study.” From October 2015, he has been teaching Neurology as Assistant Professor at the “Kore” University of Enna (Italy). He has co-authored more than 70 publications in international refereed Journals and Conferences and is also serving as Editorial Board member and invited Reviewer of several international Journals.

Research Interest

- Cerebrovascular diseases - Cognitive decline and dementia - Neuropsychiatric disorders - Sleep disorders - Gluten-related neuropathology - Clinical Neurophysiology - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - Neurosonology - Neuroplasticity