Stefania Pezzoli, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine

Stefania Pezzoli completed her PhD degree in Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Her research aimed to investigate the neural and cognitive correlates of visual hallucinations in Lewy body disease and Alzheimer’s disease by integrating multimodal neuroimaging and neuropsychological measures.

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Following her doctoral studies, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Jagust Lab at UC Berkeley, focusing on successful and typical cognitive aging and related brain features, including Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Her research interests extend to understanding resistance and resilience to brain pathologies in both cognitively unimpaired older adults and patients with different types of dementia.

Education & Training

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• Postdoc Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley 05/2024
• PhD Clinical Neuroscience University of Sheffield 02/2020
• MSc Neuropsychology University of Padua 10/2013
• BSc Psychology University of Padua 10/2010

Interests

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• positron emission tomography
• brain aging
• neuropsychology
• beta-amyloid
• dementia
• neuroimaging
• tau
• Alzheimer's disease

Websites

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• UCSF Memory and Aging Center (memory.ucsf.edu)
• Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
• How to pronounce my name (namedrop.io)
• Scopus (scopus.com)
• Rabinovici Lab (rabinovicilab.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• New approaches to defining successful cognitive aging, Alzheimer's Association, 2022-2024

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
HallucinationsCaudate NucleusBipolar DisorderCognitive AgingAlzheimer DiseaseNeuropsychological TestsGyrus CinguliWhite MatterGray MatterPutamenParkinson DiseaseFrontal LobeLewy Body DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionCorpus Callosum

• Cognitive Trajectories and Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers: From Successful Cognitive Aging to Clinical Impairment.
  Annals of neurology 2024 Harrison TM, Chadwick T, Pezzoli S, Lee J, Landau SM, Jagust WJ, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• Successful cognitive aging is associated with thicker anterior cingulate cortex and lower tau deposition compared to typical aging.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Pezzoli S, Giorgio J, Martersteck A, Dobyns L, Harrison TM, Jagust WJ
• A Multimodal Neuroimaging and Neuropsychological Study of Visual Hallucinations in Alzheimer's Disease.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Pezzoli S, Manca R, Cagnin A, Venneri A, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• Neuroanatomical and cognitive correlates of visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: Voxel-based morphometry and neuropsychological meta-analysis.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2021 Pezzoli S, Sánchez-Valle R, Solanes A, Kempton MJ, Bandmann O, Shin JI, Cagnin A, Goldman JG, Merkitch D, Firbank MJ, Taylor JP, Pagonabarraga J, Kulisevsky J, Blanc F, Verdolini N, Venneri A, Radua J
• Cognitive correlates and baseline predictors of future development of visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2021 Pezzoli S, Cagnin A, Bussè C, Zorzi G, Fragiacomo F, Bandmann O, Venneri A

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• Author Correction: Targeted memory reactivation in REM but not SWS selectively reduces arousal responses.
  Communications biology 2021 Hutchison IC, Pezzoli S, Tsimpanouli ME, Abdellahi MEA, Pobric G, Hulleman J, Lewis PA
• Functional Brain Connectivity Patterns Associated with Visual Hallucinations in Dementia with Lewy Bodies.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2021 Pezzoli S, De Marco M, Zorzi G, Cagnin A, Venneri A
• Targeted memory reactivation in REM but not SWS selectively reduces arousal responses.
  Communications biology 2021 Hutchison IC, Pezzoli S, Tsimpanouli ME, Abdellahi MEA, Pobric G, Hulleman J, Lewis PA
• In: Dierckx, R.A., Otte, A., de Vries, E.F.J., van Waarde, A., Sommer, I.E. (eds) PET and SPECT in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham
  Neuroimaging Findings in Patients with Hallucinations: Evidence from Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Conditions 2020 Stefania Pezzoli, Annalena Venneri
• Frontal and subcortical contribution to visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease.
  Postgraduate medicine 2019 Pezzoli S, Cagnin A, Antonini A, Venneri A
• Meta-analysis of regional white matter volume in bipolar disorder with replication in an independent sample using coordinates, T-maps, and individual MRI data.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2017 Pezzoli S, Emsell L, Yip SW, Dima D, Giannakopoulos P, Zarei M, Tognin S, Arnone D, James A, Haller S, Frangou S, Goodwin GM, McDonald C, Kempton MJ
• Structural and Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Hallucinations in Lewy Body Disease: A Systematic Literature Review.
  Brain sciences 2017 Pezzoli S, Cagnin A, Bandmann O, Venneri A