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Francesco Lacquaniti

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Francesco Lacquaniti
Born (1952-12-24) 24 December 1952 (age 71)
Turin, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Turin (MD) – 1976 )
University of Turin (Specialty in Neurology) - 1980
Known forMotor coordination
AwardsNational Research Council (Italy) Gradoni Prize (1985)
Ig Nobel Prize (2013)
Herlitzka International Prize for Physiology (2015)
Elected to Academia Europaea (2012)
Elected to Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (2015)
Doctor Honoris Causa Université catholique de Louvain (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Turin
University of Minnesota Medical School
National Research Council (Italy)
University of Cagliari
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Francesco Lacquaniti is an Italian neurologist and neuroscientist. He received his medical education and completed his Neurology residency at the University of Turin.[1] He is Professor emeritus of Physiology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata,[2] the Director of the Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology at Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS Rome,[3] and the President of the Italian Physiological Society.[4] His research focuses on the laws of movement control in humans and other animals (including the two-thirds Power law, see Penmanship, Motor coordination, Affine curvature) and their development in children and alteration after neurological lesions (Developmental coordination disorder). He also studied the neural representation of spatial information in the brain (Brodmann area 5), the neural representation of gravity effects on the body (Mental model), and how the brain adapts to weightlessness (Locomotion in space). His scientific work has been covered in books[5] [6][7][8] and media [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] For his work, he received the Herlitzka International Prize for Physiology,[17] was elected to the Consiglio Universitario Nazionale,[18] was elected to the Academia Europaea,[19] and received a Honorary Degree in Neurosciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain [20]

Selected publications

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  • Dominici N, et al. (2011). "Locomotor primitives in newborn babies and their development". Science. 334 (6058): 997–999. Bibcode:2011Sci...334..997D. doi:10.1126/science.1210617. PMID 22096202. S2CID 206536191.
  • Sylos-Labini F, et al. (2020). "Distinct locomotor precursors in newborn babies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117 (17): 9604–9612. Bibcode:2020PNAS..117.9604S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1920984117. PMC 7196819. PMID 32284405. S2CID 215759798.
  • Lacquaniti F, Ivanenko YP, Zago M (2012). "Development of human locomotion". Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 22 (5): 822–828. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2012.03.012. hdl:2108/62727. PMID 22498713. S2CID 10288398.
  • McIntyre J, Zago M, Berthoz A, Lacquaniti F (2001). "Does the brain model Newton's laws?". Nature Neuroscience. 4 (7): 693–694. doi:10.1038/89477. PMID 11426224. S2CID 30444364.
  • Indovina I, et al. (2005). "Representation of visual gravitational motion in the human vestibular cortex". Science. 308 (5720): 416–419. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..416I. doi:10.1126/science.1107961. hdl:2108/19501. PMID 15831760. S2CID 22179461.

References

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  1. ^ "Università degli Studi Tor Vergata. DidatticaWeb".
  2. ^ "Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata. Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia. Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi. Professori emeriti. Lacquaniti Francesco".
  3. ^ "Santa Lucia Neuroscienze e Riabilitazione. Innovative Methodologies for Rehabilitation". Archived from the original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  4. ^ "Società Italiana di Fisiologia".
  5. ^ Incognito. Pantheon Books. 2011. ISBN 9780307379788.
  6. ^ Biological Learning and Control. Computational Neuroscience Series. MIT Press. 27 January 2012. ISBN 9780262016964.
  7. ^ Synergy. Oxford University Press. 20 March 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-533316-9.
  8. ^ Textbook of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer. 2020. ISBN 9783319721675.
  9. ^ "Knowledge of gravity hard-wired in the brain". Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Humans learn to walk like rats". Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Tottering piglets can't walk at first but learn super-fast". Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  12. ^ "A Rat's First Steps: How Humans and Other Animals Learn to Walk". The Atlantic. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Der Standard. Wie wir wirklich gehen lernen".
  14. ^ "Babies, rats share walking ancestry". Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Los primeros pasos de niños y animales comparten un mecanismo neuronal similar". Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  16. ^ "Medical Xpress. New insights into how humans learn to walk".
  17. ^ "Premio Herlitzka".
  18. ^ "Consiglio Universitario Nazionale. Archivio Storico".
  19. ^ "Academia Europaea. Members. Francesco Lacquaniti".
  20. ^ "Deux brillants specialistes du contrôle moteur".
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