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Dr Marco Catani  MD MRCPsych
Lecturer
Honorary Registrar in Psychiatry

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Institute of Psychiatry
Box  P089
De Crespigny Park
London
United Kingdom, SE5 8AF

location Main Wing
departmentsPsychological Medicine and Psychiatry
alsoBrain Maturation

teaching activities

Departmental coordinator of the Erasmus/Socrates Programme

RoleCourse
Lecturer
Neuroscience » Masters (MSc)
Lecturer
Maudsley Training Programme » MRCPsych

publications

1. Catani M, Allin MPG, Husain M, Pugliese L, Mesulam MM, Murray RM, Jones DK. Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007 (in press).

2. Deoni SC, Catani M. Visualization of the deep cerebellar nuclei using quantitative T(1) and rho magnetic resonance imaging at 3 Tesla. Neuroimage 2007; 37:1260-1266.

3. Catani M. From hodology to function. Brain 2007; 130:602-605.

4. Catani M. Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging tractography in cognitive disorders. Curr Opin Neurol 2006; 19:599-606.

5. Catani M, Howells R. Risks and pitfalls for the management of re-feeding syndrome in psychiatric patients. Psych Bull 2006 (in press).

6. Campbell LE, Daly E, Toal F, Stevens A, Azuma R, Catani M, Ng V, van Amelsvoort T, Chitnis X, Cutter W, Murphy DG, Murphy KC. Brain and behaviour in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a volumetric and voxel-based morphometry MRI study. Brain 2006;129:1218-28.

7. Jones DK, Catani M, Pierpaoli C, Reeves SJC, Shergill SS, O’Sullivan M, Malley JD, MacGuire P, Horsfield MA, Simmons A, Williams SCR, Howard RJ. Age effects on diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging tractography measures of frontal cortex connections in schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2006;27:230-8.

8. Kanaan RA, Shergill SS, Barker GJ, Catani M, Ng VW, Howard R, McGuire PK, Jones DK. Tract-specific anisotropy measurements in diffusion tensor imaging. Psychiatry Res 2006;146:73-82.

9. Jones DK, Catani M, Pierpaoli C, Reeves SJC, Shergill SS, O’Sullivan M, Malley JD, MacGuire P, Horsfield MA, Simmons A, Williams SCR, Howard RJ. A diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging study of frontal cortex connections in very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis. Am J Geriatr Psych 2005;13:1092-9.

10. Pedone C, Ercolani S, Catani M, Maggio D, Ruggiero C, Quartesan R, Senin U, Mecocci P, Cherubini A. Elderly Patients With Cognitive Impairment Have a High Risk for Functional Decline During Hospitalization: The GIFA Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2005;60:1576-80.

11. Catani M, ffytche D. The rise and fall of disconnection syndromes. Brain 2005;128:2224-39.

12. ffytche DH, Catani M. Beyond localisation: from hodology to function. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2005;360:767-779.

13. Catani M, Jones DK, Donato R, ffytche DH. Perisylvian language networks of the human brain. Ann Neurol 2005;57:8-16.

14. Catani M, Piccirilli M, Geloso MC, Cherubini A, Finali G, Pelliccioli GP, Senin U, Mecocci P. Rapidly progressive aphasic dementia with motor neuron disease: a distinctive clinical entity. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2004;17:21-28.

15. Catani M, Jones DK, Donato R, ffytche DH. Occipito-temporal connections in the human brain. Brain 2003;126:2093-107.

16. Catani M, Piccirilli M, Cherubini A, Tarducci R, Sciarma T, Gobbi G, Pelliccioli G, Petrillo SM, Senin U, Mecocci P. Axonal injury within language network in primary progressive aphasia. Ann Neurol 2003;53:242-7.

17. Ingegni T, Nocentini G, Mariani E, Spazzafumo L, Polidori MC, Cherubini A, Catani M, Cadini D, Senin U, Mecocci P. Cathepsin D polymorphism in Italian elderly subjects with sporadic late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2003;16:151-5.

18. Rinaldi P, Polidori MC, Metastasio A, Mariani E, Mattioli P, Cherubini A, Catani M, Cecchetti R, Senin U, Mecocci P. Plasma antioxidants are similarly depleted in mild cognitive impairment and in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiol Aging 2003;24:915-9.

19. Maggio D, Barabani M, Pierandrei M, Polidori MC, Catani M, Mecocci P, Senin U, Pacifici R, Cherubini A. Marked decrease in plasma antioxidants in aged osteoporotic women: results of a cross-sectional study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003; 88:1523-7.

20. Rinaldi P, Mecocci P, Benedetti C, Ercolani S, Bregnocchi M, Menculini G, Catani M, Senin U, Cherubini A. Validation of the five-item geriatric depression scale in elderly subjects in three different settings. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003;51:694-8.

21. Catani M, Howard RJ, Pajevic S, Jones DK. Virtual in vivo interactive dissection of white matter fasciculi in the human brain. Neuroimage 2002;17:77-94.

22. Mecocci P, Polidori MC, Cherubini A, Ingegni T, Mattioli P, Catani M, Rinaldi P, Cecchetti R, Stahl W, Senin U, Beal MF. Lymphocyte oxidative DNA damage and plasma antioxidants in Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol 2002;59:794-8.

23. Jones DK, Griffin LD, Alexander DC, Catani M, Horsfield MA, Howard R, Williams SC. Spatial normalization and averaging of diffusion tensor MRI data sets. Neuroimage 2002;17:592-617.

24. Catani M, Mecocci P, Tarducci R, Howard R, Pelliccioli GP, Mariani E, Metastasio A, Benedetti C, Senin U, Cherubini A. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals similar white matter biochemical changes in patients with chronic hypertension and early Alzheimer’s disease. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2002; 50:1707-10.

25. Catani M, Cherubini A, Howard R, Tarducci R, Pelliccioli GP, Piccirilli M, Gobbi G, Senin U, Mecocci P. (1)H-MR spectroscopy differentiates mild cognitive impairment from normal brain aging. Neuroreport 2001; 12:2315-7.

26. Catani M, Cherubini A, Tarducci R, Polidori MC, Piccirilli M, Gobbi G, Pelliccioli GP, Senin U, Mecocci P. The brain of the elderly between normality and pathology: Techniques and technologies for the evaluation. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2001;33:77-80.

27. Polidori MC, Pelliccioli G, Catani M, Finali G, Senin U, Mecocci P. Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system: a 70-year-old man with ataxia, depression and visual deficits. Gerontology 2001; 47:93-5.

last updated: Thursday, October 04, 2007