CV Giovanni Berlucchi Eng - Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche

GIOVANNI BERLUCCHI
RETIRED PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF VERONA
Born in 1935 in Pavia, Italy, Giovanni Berlucchi graduated in Medicine at the University of Pavia in
1959. He did post-graduate work at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Pisa as a fellow of
the National Research Council of Italy, at the California Institute of Technology as a fellow of the
Public Health Service of the United States, and at the University of Pennsylvania as a Research
Associate. He became a full Professor of Physiology at the University of Siena in 1975, and then
moved to the University of Pisa in 1976 and to the University of Verona in 1983. His research work is
in the field of the neural bases of cognition and behavior, with specific interests in vision and
visuospatial attention, interactions and functional differences between the cerebral hemispheres, and
the body schema.
Berlucchi is a fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Academia Europaea, the Academia
Rodinensis pro Remediatione of Stockholm, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, the Istituto
Lombardo di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, and a foreign member of the Society for Neuroscience and the
EEG Deutsche Gesellschaft. He was President of the Italian Physiological Society from 1999 to 2001
and has received a degree honoris causa in Psychology from the University of Pavia in 2007.
He has been a member of the Council of the European Neuroscience Association, a Committee
member of the European Brain and Behaviour Society, a member of the Council of Scientists of the
Human Frontier Science Organization, and is presently a member of the Governing Council of the
International Brain Research Organization and of the Executive Board of the International Council for
Science (ICSU). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuropsychologia (1995-1999), a
receiving editor for the journals Experimental Brain Research and European Journal of Neuroscience,
and has served or serves on the editorial boards of various journals specializing in the brain sciences..
Publications in the last 5 years
GLICKSTEIN M., BERLUCCHI G. (2010). Corpus callosum: Mike Gazzaniga, the Cal Tech Lab, and
subsequent research on the corpus callosum. The cognitive neuroscience of mind: a tribute to Michael
S. Gazzaniga. p. 3-24, The MIT Press
BERLUCCHI G., AGLIOTI S.M. (2010). The body in the brain revisited. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN
RESEARCH, vol. 200; p. 25-35
BERLUCCHI G. (2010). Chapter 13 The contributions of neurophysiology to clinical neurology: an
exercise in contemporary history. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 95, p. 169-188, Elsevier,
Amsterdam
BERLUCCHI G. (2009). Identità personale, corpo, mente e cervello. Filosofia della Medicina. Metodo,
modelli, cura ed errori. p. 613-629, Bologna: Il Mulino
BERLUCCHI G. (2009). Viva la neuro-mania. GIORNALE ITALIANO DI PSICOLOGIA, vol. 2009;
p. 273-278
BERLUCCHI G. (2009). Cognizione enactive e la teoria motoria delle basi nervose della percezione di
Roger W. Sperry. TEORIE & MODELLI, vol. 14; p. 11-23
BERLUCCHI G., BUCHTEL H. (2009). Neuronal plasticity: historical roots and evolution of meaning.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, vol. 192; p. 307-319
BUCHTEL H., BERLUCCHI G., MASCETTI G. (2009). Behavioural and electrophysiological
analysis of strabismus in cats: modern context. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, vol. 192; p.
359-367
BERLUCCHI G (2009). Neuropsychology: theoretical basis. The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.
Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.1001-1006
BERLUCCHI G. (2008). British roots of Italian neurophysiology in the early 20th century. CURRENT
BIOLOGY, vol. 18; p. R51-R56
BERLUCCHI G. (2008). The difficult task of combining the bricks of neurophysiology with the rubble
of clinical neurology. FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGY, vol. 23; p. 45-46
GLICKSTEIN M., BERLUCCHI G. (2008). K.M. Bykov and transfer between the hemispheres.
BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN, vol. 77; p. 117-123
GLICKSTEIN M., BERLUCCHI G. (2008). Classical disconnection studies of the corpus callosum.
CORTEX, vol. 44; p. 914-927
MELE S., SAVAZZI S., MARZI C.A., BERLUCCHI G. (2008). Reaction time inhibition from
subliminal cues: is it related to inhibition of return?. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, vol. 46; p. 810-819,
MORO V., BERLUCCHI G., LERCH J., TOMAIUOLO F., AGLIOTI S.M. (2008). Selective deficit
of mental visual imagery with intact primary visual cortex and visual perception. CORTEX, vol. 44; p.
109-118,
BERLUCCHI G. (2008). Neuroscienze e filosofia. La natura dell'uomo: neuroscienze e filosofia a
confronto. p. 37-44, Milano: Vita e pensiero
BERLUCCHI G. (2007). The myth of the clonable human brain. In: S. Della Sala (Ed.). Tall tales
about the mind and brain: separating fact from fiction. p. 336-347, Oxford: Oxford University Press
BERLUCCHI G. (2007). Riflessioni sull'incontro mancato della neurofisiologia di Golgi e Cajal con la
neurofisiologia dei loro tempi, in occasione del centenario del Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia o la
Medicina del 1906 [Golgi, Cajal and neurophysiology]. MEDICINA NEI SECOLI. ARTE E
SCIENZA, vol. 19; p. 81-92
BERLUCCHI G (2007) Cervello. In Enciclopedia filosofica, vol.II: 1817-1828.. Bompiani, Milano
BERLUCCHI G (2007) Corpo calloso. In Dizionario Storico di Scienze della Psiche, vol.I, pp.256-263,
2007. Einaudi, Torino
BERLUCCHI G (2007) Giuseppe Moruzzi. In Dizionario Storico di Scienze della Psiche, vol.II,
pp.708-710. Einaudi, Torino
BERLUCCHI G. (2006). Revisiting the 1981 Nobel Prize to Roger Sperry, David Hubel and Torsten
Wiesel on the occasion of the centennial of the Prize to Golgi and Cajal. JOURNAL OF THE
HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 15; p. 375-377,
BERLUCCHI G. (2006). Inhibition of return: a phenomenon in search of a mechanism and a better
name. COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, vol. 23; p. 1065-1074
BERLUCCHI G. (2006). Dalla ricerca neurofisiologica all’applicazione clinica: l’influenza teorica e
pratica della scoperta della natura chimica della trasmissione sinaptica fra i neuroni. In: Sui fondamenti
delle scienze biomediche. Venezia, 2-4 dicembre 2004, Venezia: Istituto Veneto per le Scienze, Lettere
ed Arti, p. 105-126