Valeria Isella

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Valeria Isella is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Valeria Isella has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Valeria Isella's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (26 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (13 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (10 papers). Valeria Isella is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (26 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (13 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (10 papers). Valeria Isella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and France. Valeria Isella's co-authors include Ildebrando Appollonio, Carlo Ferrarese, E. Forapani, Alessandro Russo, Paolo Nichelli, L. Frattola, Marco Grimaldi, S. Iurlaro, Roberto Piolti and Gloria Galimberti and has published in prestigious journals such as Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Valeria Isella

59 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB): normative values in an Italian population sample
    2005 536 citations Ildebrando Appollonio, Valeria Isella et al. Neurological Sciences profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Valeria Isella Italy 20 605 594 565 290 206 60 1.7k
Nicola Girtler Italy 25 614 1.0× 608 1.0× 459 0.8× 354 1.2× 194 0.9× 69 1.6k
Otto Pedraza United States 23 729 1.2× 498 0.8× 553 1.0× 536 1.8× 178 0.9× 42 1.7k
PS Mathuranath India 21 1.0k 1.7× 542 0.9× 434 0.8× 466 1.6× 236 1.1× 66 2.1k
Andrea Brugnolo Italy 27 924 1.5× 681 1.1× 589 1.0× 500 1.7× 215 1.0× 68 2.0k
Montserrat Alegret Spain 27 644 1.1× 396 0.7× 503 0.9× 437 1.5× 244 1.2× 62 1.7k
Alexandra Foubert‐Samier France 23 578 1.0× 365 0.6× 560 1.0× 344 1.2× 141 0.7× 63 1.8k
Bryan Bernard United States 24 598 1.0× 470 0.8× 972 1.7× 196 0.7× 136 0.7× 48 1.8k
Mark W. Jacobson United States 25 797 1.3× 570 1.0× 333 0.6× 314 1.1× 175 0.8× 50 1.9k
A. Simmons United Kingdom 17 390 0.6× 658 1.1× 388 0.7× 249 0.9× 126 0.6× 26 1.6k
Brendon Boot United States 13 348 0.6× 358 0.6× 540 1.0× 424 1.5× 126 0.6× 25 1.3k

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All Works

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Cammisuli, Davide Maria, Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Barbara Poletti, et al.. (2024). Behavioral Alterations of Spatial Cognition and Role of the Apolipoprotein E-ε4 in Patients with MCI Due to Alzheimer’s Disease: Results from the BDSC-MCI Project. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(18). 5447–5447. 1 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria, et al.. (2022). Brand new norms for a good old test: Northern Italy normative study of MiniMental State Examination. Neurological Sciences. 43(5). 3053–3063. 17 indexed citations
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Giussani, Carlo, et al.. (2022). Intraoperative MRI versus intraoperative ultrasound in pediatric brain tumor surgery: is expensive better than cheap? A review of the literature. Child s Nervous System. 38(8). 1445–1454. 18 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria, Cinzia Crivellaro, Anna Maria Formenti, et al.. (2022). Validity of cingulate–precuneus–temporo-parietal hypometabolism for single-subject diagnosis of biomarker-proven atypical variants of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Neurology. 269(8). 4440–4451. 5 indexed citations
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DiFrancesco, Jacopo C., Valeria Isella, Cinzia Crivellaro, et al.. (2021). Temporal lobe dysfunction in late-onset epilepsy of unknown origin. Epilepsy & Behavior. 117. 107839–107839. 12 indexed citations
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Rosazza, Cristina, Valeria Isella, Ildebrando Appollonio, & Tim Shallice. (2018). When mild pure alexia may not be reducible to hemianopic alexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 35(8). 479–484. 1 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria, et al.. (2016). Assessment of free and cued recall in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular and frontotemporal dementia with 24-item Grober and Buschke test. Neurological Sciences. 38(1). 115–122. 14 indexed citations
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Ferri, Francesca, et al.. (2014). Cognitive correlates of under-ambiguity and under-risk decision making in high-functioning patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 36(10). 1066–1075. 7 indexed citations
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Re, Fulvio Da, et al.. (2014). Retrospective Study on Agitation Provoked by Memantine in Dementia. Journal of Neuropsychiatry. 27(1). e10–e13. 9 indexed citations
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Jefferies, Elizabeth, et al.. (2012). Paced reading in semantic dementia: Word knowledge contributes to phoneme binding in rapid speech production. Neuropsychologia. 50(5). 723–732. 6 indexed citations
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Goel, Vinod, Oshin Vartanian, Angela Bartolo, et al.. (2012). Lesions to right prefrontal cortex impair real-world planning through prematurecommitments. Neuropsychologia. 51(4). 713–724. 23 indexed citations
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Pelati, Oriana, et al.. (2011). When Rey-Osterrieth’s Complex Figure Becomes a Church: Prevalence and Correlates of Graphic Confabulations in Dementia. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra. 1(1). 372–380. 12 indexed citations
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Zoia, C, Chiara Riva, Valeria Isella, et al.. (2010). Nonfibrillar Abeta1–42 Inhibits Glutamate Uptake and Phosphorylates p38 in Human Fibroblasts. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders. 25(2). 164–172. 9 indexed citations
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Conti, Elisa, Gloria Galimberti, Lucio Tremolizzo, et al.. (2010). Cholinesterase inhibitor use is associated with increased plasma levels of anti-Abeta 1–42 antibodies in Alzheimer's disease patients. Neuroscience Letters. 486(3). 193–196. 14 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria. (2003). Physical anhedonia in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 74(9). 1308–1311. 67 indexed citations
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Appollonio, Ildebrando, Alessandro Russo, Valeria Isella, et al.. (2003). Cognitve estimation: comparison of two tests in nondemented parkinsonian patients. Neurological Sciences. 24(3). 153–154. 13 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria, et al.. (2002). Screening and Quantification of Depression in Mild-to-Moderate Dementia Through the GDS Short Forms. Clinical Gerontologist. 24(3-4). 115–125. 14 indexed citations
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Isella, Valeria, Marco Grimaldi, S. Iurlaro, et al.. (2002). Clinical, neuropsychological, and morphometric correlates of apathy in Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders. 17(2). 366–371. 182 indexed citations

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