Main areas of research:

Spatial attention and audiovisual integration in ecological settings
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Music processing

Interests/keywords:

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM)
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Attention
Crossmodal integration
Music processing

Current title/position:

Post-doc

Current affiliation/employer:

Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

PhD Advisor and University:

Sapienza University of Rome

Personal or laboratory homepage:

http://sites.google.com/site/davidenardo/

Publications:

**Peer-reviewed journals**

Nardo D, Högberg G, Lanius AR, Jacobsson H, Jonsson C, Hällström T, Pagani M. Gray matter volume alterations related to trait dissociation in PTSD and traumatized controls. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. DOI: 10.1111/acps.12026.

Curcio G*, Nardo D*, Perrucci MG, Pasqualetti P, Chen TL, Del Gratta C, Romani GL, Rossini PM. Effects of mobile phone signals over BOLD response while performing a cognitive task. Clin Neurophysiol. DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2011.06.007 (In Press). [* authors contributed equally]

Nardo D, Högberg G, Flumeri F, Jacobsson H, Larsson S, Hällström T, Pagani M. Self-rating scales assessing subjective well-being and distress correlate with rCBF in PTSD-sensitive regions. Psychol Med. 2011;41(12):2549-2561.

Reiterer SM, Hu X, Erb M, Rota G, Nardo D, Grodd W, Winkler S, Ackermann H. Individual differences in speech imitation/pronunciation aptitude in late bilinguals: functional neuro-imaging and brain morphology. Frontiers in Psychology 2011;2:271.

Högberg G, Nardo D, Hällström T, Pagani M. Affective psychotherapy in post-traumatic reactions guided by affective neuroscience: Memory re-consolidation and play. Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2011;4:87-96.

Nardo D, Santangelo V, Macaluso E. Stimulus-driven orienting of visuo-spatial attention in complex dynamic environments. Neuron. 2011. 69(5): 1015-28.

Nardo D, Högberg G, Looi JC, Larsson S, Hällström T, Pagani M. Gray matter density in limbic and paralimbic cortices is associated with trauma load and EMDR outcome in PTSD patients. J Psychiatr Res. 2010. 44(7): 477-85.

Manna A, Raffone A, Perrucci MG, Nardo D, Ferretti A, Tartaro A, Londei A, Del Gratta C, Belardinelli MO, Romani GL. Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation. Brain Res Bull. 2010. 82(1-2): 46-56.

Olivetti Belardinelli M, Palmiero M, Sestieri C, Nardo D, Di Matteo R, Londei A, D'Ausilio A, Ferretti A, Del Gratta C, Romani GL. An fMRI investigation on image generation in different sensory modalities: The influence of vividness. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2009. 132(2): 190-200.

Nardo D, Brunetti R, Cupellini E, Olivetti Belardinelli M. The influence of melodic and rhythmic redundancies on recognition memory for unknown musical themes. Musicae Scientiae. 2009. 13(2): 337-55.

Pagani M, Salmaso D, Rodriguez G, Nardo D, Nobili F. Principal component analysis in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease – A novel approach to clinical diagnosis. Psychiatry Res. 2009. 173(1): 8-14.

Gardner A, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Micucci F, Nobili F, Sanchez-Crespo A, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Pagani M. Mitochondrial function is related to alterations at brain SPECT in depressed patients. CNS Spectr. 2008. 13(9): 805-14.

Tecchio F, Zito G, Zappasodi F, Dell’Acqua ML, Landi D, Nardo D, Lupoi D, Rossini PM, Filippi MM. Intra-cortical connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis: A neurophysiological approach. Brain. 2008. 131(7): 1783-92.

Rota G, Veit R, Nardo D, Weiskopf N, Birbaumer N, Dogil G. Processing of inconsistent emotionalinformation: An fMRI study. Exp Brain Res. 2008. 186(3): 401-7.

Pagani M, Högberg G, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Sundin O, Jonsson C, Soares J, Aberg-Wistedt A, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Hällström T. Effects of EMDR psychotherapy on 99mTc-HMPAO distributionin occupation-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Nucl Med Commun. 2007. 28(10): 757-65.

Pagani M, Salmaso D, Nardo D, Jonsson C, Jacobsson H, Larsson SA, Gardner A. Imaging theneurobiological substrate of atypical depression by SPECT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007. 34(1): 110-20.


**Book chapters & reviews**

Nardo D & Santangelo V. Processi cognitivi e rappresentazione neurale tramite neuroimaging. In: Morabito C & Della Rocca M (Eds.). Conoscenze, mappe, reti e memorie: la rappresentazione nelle scienze cognitive. Teorie & Modelli (n.s.), XV:II-III, 195-209. Bologna: Pitagora Editrice, 2010.

Looi JC, Pagani M, Nardo D, Raphael B, Wahlund LO. Structural and Functional Neuroimaging in PTSD: A Neurobiological Update. In: Sher L & Vilens A. (Eds.). Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

Nardo D & Reiterer S. Musicality and phonetic language aptitude. In: Dogil G & Reiterer S. (Eds.). Language talent and brain activity. Trends in applied linguistics, Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 2009.