Angela Marotta. Curriculum vitae

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1 Angela Marotta Curriculum vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Date and place of birth: , Maddaloni (Caserta), Italy Address (office): Via Casorati, , Verona, Italy Tel. (office): CURRENT POSITION First year Ph.D. Student in Neuroscience. Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Movement Sciences, Section of Neurology, University of Verona. Supervisor: Prof. Michele Tinazzi. Co-Supervisor: Dr. Mirta Fiorio. Research project: Somatosensory alterations in movement disorders. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2012 Licence to practice Psychology, University of Padua, Italy. - November

2 2011 One-year specialist degree in Forensic Psychopathology and Neuropsychology, University of Padua, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Sartori Curricular training for the one-year specialist course in Forensic Psychopathology and Neuropsychology, Forensic Neuropsychology Service, University of Padua, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Sartori. During the stage I attended to forensic activities in both civil and criminal lawsuit (i.e. neuropsychological assessment, observation of forensic interviews) Postgraduate training, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Franca Stablum Master s Degree in Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude), Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy. Graduation thesis title: Executive Function Performance Test: a test for the ecological assessment of executive functions. Supervisor: Prof. Franca Stablum Curricular training for Master s degree in Clinical Psychology, Section of Rehabilitative Neuropsychology, Dep. of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy. Supervisors: Dr. Anna Cantagallo and Prof. Franca Stablum. During the training I took part in the assessments of behavioural and cognitive functions in patients with traumatic brain injury, vascular pathology or degenerative disorders. - November

3 2009 Advanced Courses for graduate students, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua: - Data collection and analysis in the neurosciences. Using the TOBII Eye Tracker for the measurement of eye movements, 30 hours; - Data collection and analysis in the neurosciences. Computerized techniques for data analysis, 30 hours; - Data analysis for psychosocial research. SPSS training, 30 hours Bachelor s degree in Psychological science and technics for individuals and community (102/110), Faculty of Psychology, Second University of Napoli (SUN), Caserta, Italy. Graduation thesis title: Empowerment: definitions and operative implication of the construct. Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Chiarolanza High school degree (100/100), Liceo Socio-Psico-Pedagogico A.Manzoni, Caserta, Italy. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND LESSONS 2012 XLIII Congress of Italian Neurological Society. Aristotle s illusion in FHD (oral communication) Refresh course for rehabilitative team of the Daily Centre for Alzheimer s Disease Casa Madre Teresa di Calcutta, OPSA, Padua. The role plays by the executive functions disorders in the AD patients autonomy (oral communication). - November

4 2011 Master s degree Course in Psychology of Attention (Prof. Stablum), Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. The executive functions diseases (lesson) Congress of Inter-professional Group of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (GIRN), Padua. Executive Function Performance Test: a test for ecological assessment of the executive functions (oral communication) Master s degree Course in Assessment and rehabilitation of Cognitive diseases (Prof. Stablum), Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. The ecological assessment of executive functions (lesson) Refresher course organized by the Local Health Unit of Fano, Marche. The Italian adaptation of the Executive Function Performance Test (object lesson) Master s degree Course in Psychology of attention (Prof. Stablum), Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. Neuropsychological tests for executive functions assessment (object lesson). SCIENTIFIC PAPERS 1. Tinazzi M, Marotta A, Fasano A, Bove F, Bentivoglio A, Squintani G, Pozzer L, Fiorio M. The Aristotle s illusion reveals inter-digit functional somatosensory alterations in focal hand dystonia (under revision). - November

5 2. Marotta A, Stablum F, Rapattoni M, Cantagallo A. The Executive Functions in Alzheimer s Disease (in preparation). CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Marotta A., Fiorio M., Pozzer L., Peretti A., Fasano A., Bentivoglio A., Squintani G., Tinazzi M., Aristotle s illusion in Focal Hand Dystonia. XLIII Congress of the Italian Neurological Society, Abstracts Book, Supplement of Neurological Sciences, vol. 33, S64, October POSTER PRESENTATION 2012 XXX European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone). Executive functions in Alzheimer s disease. ATTENDANCE TO CONGRESSES, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS 2012 III International Congress of Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Dipartimento Politiche Antidroga, Addiction: new evidences from Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation, Verona Posner MI: How genes and experience shape the human will, University of Verona. - November

6 2012 Hattwood A: Recognition of emotions in psychiatric disorders, University of Verona "Update sulla Malattia di Parkinson e sui Parkinsonismi Monogenici", University of Verona Hattwood A: A laboratory model of human anxiety induction: the effects of carbon-dioxide inhalation on human physiology and cognition, University of Verona Beck D: Decoding natural scenes, University of Verona Diwadkar VA: Models of brain function as a framework for understanding psychiatric disease: Bases, applications and extensions, University of Verona Beck D: Visual awareness and frontoparietal cortex, University of Verona Meeting of Neurology, Consciousness and sleep, University of Verona Beck D: Visual awareness and V1, University of Verona Congress of the Forensic Psychology Society, La psicologia giuridica e le nuove evidenze scientifiche nella valutazione del comportamento, Padua. - November

7 2009 Kliegel M: Development of prospective memory across the lifespan", University of Padua. - November

8 PAST RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 1. Topic: Executive functions. Research project: Italian adaptation of the Executive Function Performance Test (EFPT) (Marotta A., Stablum F., Cantagallo A.). The EFPT (Baum C.M. et al., 2003) assesses the executive functions by means of simple activities of daily living. More precisely, the test gives information about: i) the impaired executive function (i.e.: planning, sequencing and control of the behaviour during the performance); ii) the level of self-autonomy; iii) the type of help needs for patients to successfully perform the everyday tasks. The Italian adaptation of the EFPT consisted in: i) making changes in order to better uniform the tasks to the Italian culture; ii) performing a pilot study with healthy subjects, in order to test the Italian adaptation of the EFPT tasks and to make other changes, were necessary; iii) application of the EFPT to study the executive function disease following to traumatic brain injury, vascular accidents and degenerative disorders. To perform the third part of the project we established research collaborations with different centres, i.e. University hospital of Ferrara- Rehabilitative Neuropsychology Section (Ferrara); Psychology, Neuropsychology, Rehabilitation and Psychotherapy Center (Vicenza); Daily Center for Alzheimer Disease patients (Padua). 2. Topic: Prospective memory. The aim of the research project was the inspection of the executive functions involved in prospective memory tasks. The Virtual Week (VW; Rendell P. et al, 2000) was - November

9 used in order to assess the prospective memory. Specifically, VW is a computerized test for the evaluation of the time and event based components of the prospective memory. I worked to the Italian adaptation of VW and than to the training of the student for VW application. 3. Topic: Time perception. Research project on the relation between time perception, attention and working memory: collaboration in participant s recruitment. We used specific designed computerized test for the assessment of time perception (i.e., discrimination and reproduction of visual stimuli), executive functions and working memory (Stroop, N- Back). LANGUAGES Italian: mother language. English: basic verbal and writing skills, proficient reading skills. - November