Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry

Born in Catania, Italy, in 1982, Giuseppe Lanza has established a distinguished career in neurology and clinical neurophysiology. After six years of service as Senior Academic Researcher and Associate Professor, he currently holds the position of Full Professor and Dean of Applied Medical Sciences Techniques at the University of Catania. Following graduation with honours in Medicine, Professor Lanza specialized in Neurology and earned an international PhD at the same university. As a Visiting Clinical Research Fellow, he trained at the Department of Neuroscience and the Clinical Neurophysiology Unit of Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). In 2013, he was awarded a Scientific Fellowship by the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). From 2013 to October 2018, Professor Lanza worked as a Consultant Neurologist at the Oasi Research Institute–IRCCS in Troina, Italy, a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization, where he now serves as Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit. Between 2015 and 2018, he also taught Neurology at the University of Enna (Italy), where he has recently returned to continue teaching activities. Professor Lanza has authored more than 300 publications in internationally indexed peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and actively contributes to the field as an Editor and invited Reviewer for several international journals. More recently, he obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Research and received an international award for translational research in Sleep Medicine. To date, Professor Lanza has achieved a Scopus h-index of 45 with approximately 4,500 citations, underscoring his significant impact on the global scientific community.

• Neurophysiology
• Neurology
• Cognitive & neurodegenerative disease
• Translational neuroscience

Research Areas & Expertise

General Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Dementia, and Cognitive Disorders.

Neurophysiology, Neurosonology, and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation (especially Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – TMS).

Sleep Disorders, Epilepsy, and Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Vascular Cognitive Impairment and neurophysiological biomarkers of cognitive decline.

Translational research integrating clinical practice with advanced neurophysiological techniques.

1.  Transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease: a neurophysiological marker of cortical hyperexcitability – 2011

2.  Distinctive patterns of cortical excitability to transcranial magnetic stimulation in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, and sleep deprivation – 2015

3.  Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with drug-resistant major depression: a six-month clinical follow-up study – 2015

4.  Cortical plasticity in depression: a neurochemical perspective from transcranial magnetic stimulation – 2017

5.  Central and peripheral nervous system excitability in restless legs syndrome – 2017

6.  Neurophysiology of the “celiac brain”: Disentangling gut-brain connections – 2017

7.  Clinical presentation and outcome of geriatric depression in subcortical ischemic vascular disease – 2010

8.  A review of transcranial magnetic stimulation in vascular dementia – 2011

9.  Enhanced motor cortex facilitation in patients with vascular cognitive impairment-no dementia – 2011

10. Different patterns of cortical excitability in major depression and vascular depression: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study – 2013

11. Direct comparison of cortical excitability to transcranial magnetic stimulation in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and restless legs syndrome – 2015

12. Vascular cognitive impairment through the looking glass of transcranial magnetic stimulation – 2017

13. TMS follow-up study in patients with vascular cognitive impairment-no dementia – 2013

14. Motor cortex excitability in vascular depression – 2011

15. Cholinergic circuitry functioning in patients with vascular cognitive impairment–no dementia – 2016

16. Cortical involvement in celiac disease before and after long-term gluten-free diet: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study – 2017

17. Motor cortex plasticity in subcortical ischemic vascular dementia: what can TMS say? – 2014

18. Preserved transcallosal inhibition to transcranial magnetic stimulation in nondemented elderly patients with leukoaraiosis – 2013

19. Correlation between motor cortex excitability changes and cognitive impairment in vascular depression: pathophysiological insights from a longitudinal TMS study – 2016

20. Excitability of the motor cortex in de novo patients with celiac disease – 2014

21. Effect of a gluten-free diet on cortical excitability in adults with celiac disease – 2015

22. The impact of drugs for multiple sclerosis on sleep – 2017

23. Epileptic seizure as a precipitating factor of vascular progressive supranuclear palsy: A case report – 2014

24. Nerve conduction studies as a measure of disease progression: objectivity or illusion? – 2017

25. Prominent neurological involvement in Dercum disease – 2017

26. Response to the letter to the editor "Cortical excitability in restless legs syndrome" – 2015

27. Unusual neurological presentation of nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome) – 2017

28. Acute isolated trochlear nerve palsy in a patient with cavernous carotid aneurysm and visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure – 2015

29. Focal neurological deficit in acute anemia: Case reports and review of the literature – 2013

30. Phenotypic heterogeneity in hereditary motor neuropathy type V: A new case report series – 2012

31. Performance evaluation of classifiers in distinguishing mental tasks from EEG signals – 2012

32. Unusual presentation of atypical akinetic-rigid syndrome after liver transplantation: A case report and review of the literature – 2015

33. Course of Atypical Manifestations of a Case of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease over 35 Years of Clinical Observation – 2013

34. Distinctive Pattern of Cortical Excitability in Vascular Depression and Major Depression (P07.184) – 2013

35. Distinctive pattern of cortical excitability in vascular depression and major depression – 2013

36. Motor Cortex Excitability in Patients with Vascular Depression: A Paired-Pulse TMS Study – 2011

37. Preserved transcallosal inhibition to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in non-demented elderly patients with leukoaraiosis – 2011