Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Foundation year2003
DirectorProf. Gioacchino Tedeschi
Principal investigatorProf. Francesca Trojsi
The “ALS Centre – Vanvitelli”, part of the First Division of Neurology, University Hospital “Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli” in Naples (Italy) (new patients/year: about 80; patients in care/year: about 250), is one of the most endorsed ALS centers in Southern Italy, involved in several major national and international clinical trials on ALS. The research activity of this ALS Centre is also performed at the “MRI Research Centre” of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, a centre of excellence based on a collaborative and multi-investigator neuroimaging research environment (including neurologists, neuropsychologists, bioinformaticians, and bioengineers) focused on medical applications of advanced functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging techniques to study brain. Moreover, this ALS centre is involved in several main clinical/research networks: European Reference Network for rare disease (ERN) – Neuromuscular Diseases (Euro-NMD); ITALSGEN (ITalian Consortium for ALS GENetics); NiSALS (Neuroimaging Society in ALS) Consortia; and TRICALS.
Contact Information
AddressNaplesPiazza Luigi Miraglia 280138 Italy
ContactUniversità degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Phone3908156656
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Serving population
Naples: 3.085.000; Campania: 5.802.000 (additionally, Basilicata 562.869; Calabria 1.947.000)
Patient resources
Population based register
Clinic based register
Geographically matched controles
Banks
Research activities
Clinical management research
Neuro epidemiology
Neuro physiology
Neuro imaging
Neuro psychology
Neuro pathology
Genomics
Transcriptomics
Metabolomics
Publication
- Trojsi F, Di Nardo F, D’Alvano G, et al. Resting state fMRI analysis of pseudobulbar affect in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): motor dysfunction of emotional expression. Brain Imaging Behav. 2023;17(1):77-89. doi: 10.1007/s11682-022-00744-4
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Trojsi F, Siciliano M, Femiano C, et al. Comparative Analysis of C9orf72 and Sporadic Disease in a Large Multicenter ALS Population: The Effect of Male Sex on Survival of C9orf72 Positive Patients. Front Neurosci. 2019;13:485. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00485
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Trojsi F, Di Nardo F, Santangelo G, et al.Resting state fMRI correlates of Theory of Mind impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Cortex 2017;97:1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.016
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Santangelo G, Siciliano M, Trojano L, Femiano C, Monsurrò MR, Tedeschi G, Trojsi F. Apathy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: insights from Dimensional Apathy Scale. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2017;18(5-6):434-442. doi: 10.1080/21678421.2017.1313865
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Trojsi F, Esposito F, de Stefano M, Buonanno D, Conforti FL, Corbo D, Piccirillo G, Cirillo M, Monsurrò MR, Montella P, Tedeschi G. Functional overlap and divergence between ALS and bvFTD. Neurobiol Aging. 2015;36(1):413-23. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.06.025
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