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Davide Nardo

Davide Nardo

 

 

 

Position

  • Post-doctoral fellow, Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome.
  • Research associate, Department of Psychology, Sapienza - University of Rome.

Topics

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
  • Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM).
  • Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM).
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
  • Orienting of spatial attention.
  • Music processing and musicality.

Current Researches

  • Attentional orienting.
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Publications

  • Peer-reviewed journals:

    • Nardo D, Högberg G, Looi JC, Larsson S, Hällström T, Pagani M. Gray matter density in limbic and paralimbic cortices is associated with trauma load and EMDR outcome in PTSD patients. J Psychiatr Res. 2009 [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.10.014].
    • Nardo D, Brunetti R, Cupellini E, Olivetti Belardinelli M. The influence of melodic and rhythmic redundancies on recognition memory for unknown musical themes. Musicae Scientiae. 2009. 13(2): 337-55.
    • Olivetti Belardinelli M, Palmiero M, Sestieri C, Nardo D, Di Matteo R, Londei A, D’Ausilio A, Ferretti A, Del Gratta C, Romani GL. An fMRI investigation on image generation in different sensory modalities: The influence of vividness. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2009. 132(2): 190-200.
    • Pagani M, Salmaso D, Rodriguez G, Nardo D, Nobili F. Principal component analysis in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease – a novel approach to clinical diagnosis. Psychiatry Res. 2009. 173(1): 8-14.
    • Gardner A, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Micucci F, Nobili F, Sanchez-Crespo A, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Pagani M. Mitochondrial function is related to alterations at brain SPECT in depressed patients. CNS Spectr. 2008. 13(9): 805-14.
    • Tecchio F, Zito G, Zappasodi F, Dell’Acqua ML, Landi D, Nardo D, Lupoi D, Rossini PM, Filippi MM. Intra-cortical connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis: A neurophysiological approach. Brain. 2008. 131(7): 1783-92.
    • Rota G, Veit R, Nardo D, Weiskopf N, Birbaumer N, Dogil G. Processing of inconsistent emotional information: An fMRI study. Exp Brain Res. 2008. 186(3): 401-7.
    • Pagani M, Högberg G, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Sundin Ö, Jonsson C, Soares J, Aberg-Wistedt A, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Hällström T. Effects of EMDR psychotherapy on 99mTc-HMPAO distribution in occupation-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Nucl Med Commun. 2007. 28(10): 757-65.
    • Pagani M, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Jonsson C, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Gardner A. Imaging the neurobiological substrate of atypical depression by SPECT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007. 34(1): 110-20.

  • Book chapters:
    • Nardo D & Reiterer S. Musicality and phonetic language aptitude. In: Dogil G & Reiterer S. (Eds.). Language talent and brain activity. Trends in applied linguistics, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 2009.
    • Looi JC, Pagani M, Nardo D, Raphael B, Wahlund LO. Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in PTSD: A Neurobiological Update. In: Sher L, & Vilens A. (Eds.). Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. New York: Nova Science Publishers. 2009 (In Press).

  • Congress proceedings:
    • Nardo D, Högberg G, Larsson SA, Hällstrom T, Pagani M. Limbic and paralimbic cortex grey matter volumes are negatively associated with trauma load. 18th European Congress of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Feb 27 - March 2, 2010.
    • Pagani M, Nardo D, Högberg G, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA. Self-rating scales assessing subjective well-being and distress correlate with CBF in PTSD-sensitive regions. 18th European Congress of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Feb 27 - March 2, 2010.
    • Palmiero M, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Nardo D, Sestieri C, Di Matteo R, D’Ausilio A, Romani GL. Mental imagery generation in different modalities activates sensory-motor areas. 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy, September 14-19, 2009.
    • Olivetti Belardinelli M, Nardo D, Martinelli V, Cacciafesta M. Recognition memory for music in healthy elderly subjects: A pilot study. 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Jyväskylä, Finland, August 12-16, 2009.
    • Reiterer S, Hu X, Erb M, Nardo D, Jilka M, Ackermann H, Grodd W. Neuronal correlates of pronunciation talent in a speech imitation task: An fMRI study. European Science Foundation Research Conferences – Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, Feb 27 - March 4, 2009.
    • Pagani M, Nardo D, Flumeri F, Salmaso D, Looi J, Sanchez-Crespo A, Larsson SA, Sundin Ö, Högberg G. Volumetric changes in PTSD and in a subgroup of PTSD patients not responding to EMDR psychotherapy. 17th European Congress of Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal, January 24-28, 2009.
    • Pagani M, Flumeri F, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Sanchez-Crespo A, Danielsson AM, Brolin F, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Högberg G. Neurobiological changes in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following treatment with Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing. Annual Congress of the EANM, Munich, Germany, October 11-15, 2008.
    • Pagani M, Flumeri F, Nardo D, Salmaso D, Sanchez-Crespo A, Danielsson AM, Fränden M, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Högberg G. Correlations between cerebral blood flow and structural and neuropsychological parameters in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Annual Congress of the EANM, Munich, Germany, October 11-15, 2008.
    • Hu X, Nardo D, Grodd W, Ackermann H, Reiterer S. The neuropsychology of second language (L2) pronunciation talent. XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 20-25 2008.
    • Curcio G, Nardo D, Perrucci MG, Chen TL, Ferreri F, Del Gratta C, Romani GL, Rossini PM. Effects induced by exposure to mobile phone emissions: TMS and fMRI studies on healthy volunteers. 13th European Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4-8, 2008.
    • Dell’Acqua ML, Tecchio F, Zito G, Zappasodi F, Landi D, Nardo D, Rossini PM, Filippi MM. Corticocortical connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis: A neurophysiological approach. XXXVIII Congresso della Società Italiana di Neurologia, Florence, Italy, October 13-17, 2007.
    • Olivetti Belardinelli M, Nardo D, Veit R, Birbaumer N. Mapping encoding and retrieval of melodic and rhythmic redundancies in music processing: An fMRI study. XV Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France, Aug 29 - Sept 1, 2007.
    • Pagani M, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Jonsson C, Danielsson A, Hatherly R, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Gardner A. Impact of mitochondrial disfunction on 99mTc-HMPAO uptake in depressed patients. Annual Congress of the EANM, Athens, Greece, Sept 30 - Oct 4, 2006.
    • Pagani M, Högberg G, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Jonsson C, Danielsson A, Engelin L, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Hällström T, Sundin Ö. Effects of psychotherapy on 99mTc-HMPAO distribution in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Annual Congress of the EANM, Athens, Greece, Sept 30 - Oct 4, 2006.
    • Nardo D, Cupellini E, Brunetti R, Olivetti Belardinelli M. Assessing the role of melodic and rhythmic factors in structuring musical salience. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, August 22-26 2006.
    • Nardo D, Veit R, Rota G, Birbaumer N, Olivetti Belardinelli M. Looking for the neural bases of memory systems during the processing of music: An event-related fMRI study. 12th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 11-15, 2006.
    • Nardo D, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Lucci G, Rea M, Gentilomo A. Exploring the time features of recognition memory for music in the semantic and episodic systems: An ERP study. 12th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 11-15, 2006.
    • Rota G, Veit R, Nardo D, Weiskopf N, Birbaumer N, Dogil G. Facing inconsistent emotional information: Evidence on the involvement of the anterior cingulated cortex in identification of emotional prosody. 12th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 11-15, 2006.
    • Pagani M, Nobili F, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Thurfjell L, Larsson SA, Rodriguez G. Alzheimer Disease: A comparative study using Statistical Parametric Mapping and Principal Component Analysis. 11th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada, June 12-16, 2005.
    • Londei A, Nardo D, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Pantano P, Iannetti GD, Lenzi GL. Comparing data-driven to hypothesis-driven techniques for analyzing fMRI data of music perception. 4th Conference “Understanding and Creating Music”, Caserta, Italy, November 23-26, 2004.
    • Pagani M, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Jonsson C, Danielsson AM, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA. Accuracy of possible and probable Alzheimer Disease diagnosis: A methodological comparison using SPM and Principal Component Analysis. Annual Congress of the EANM, Helsinki, Finland, September 4-8, 2004.
    • Nardo D, Londei A, Iannetti G, Pantano P, Lenzi D, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Lenzi GL. Mapping gender differences in brain activity while listening to music excerpts characterized by tonality and salience. 10th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Budapest, Hungary, June 13-17, 2004.