Marco Calabria

Professor Doctor Health Sciences Department

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neuropsychology
aging
language disorders

Research group: NeuroADaS Lab
Area: Health sciences
Membership Center: Faculties
UNESCO codes:: 6106, 6107, 61, 610404, 610610

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Holder of a doctoral degree in Psychobiology from the University of Padua (Italy) and a master's degree in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist at the Neuropsychology Unit, Fatebenefratelli Institute-Saint John of God Clinical Research Centre, Brescia (Italy), in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.

He has also taken part in projects on language deficits in frontotemporal dementias and the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment tool in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

From 2009 to 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Brain and Cognition (Pompeu Fabra University), with funding from the Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal programmes. He developed a research line on language disorders in bilingual patients (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and aphasia) and the role of bilingualism as a cognitive reserve factor in dementia. He combined research activity with teaching as a course instructor for the bachelor's degrees in Medicine and Biology and the Master's Degree in Brain and Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University and the University Master's Degree in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Since December 2019, he has been a member of the teaching staff at the Faculty of Health Sciences (Neuropsychology and Neuroscience) and a member of the Cognitive NeuroLab research group.

He has been principal investigator of three research projects of the National Plan of the State Research Agency and collaborator of European and national projects. He is an associate editor of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Behavioural Science and Frontiers.

He has also been the editor for two special issues on aphasia and bilingualism, and the effects of bilingualism on ageing and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Aphasia and bilingualism

Language disorders and non-linguistic deficits in bilingual patients with post-stroke aphasia and progressive primary aphasia. Language control deficits in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

Calabria M., Jefferies E., Sala I., Morenas-Rodríguez E., Illán-Gala I., Montal V., Fortea J., Lleó A., & Costa A. (2021). Multilingualism in semantic dementia: language-dependent lexical retrieval from degraded conceptual representations. Aphasialogy, 35(2), 240-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1693025
Grunden, N., Piazza, G., García-Sánchez, C. & Calabria M. (2020). Voluntary Language Switching in the Context of Bilingual Aphasia. Behavioral Science, 10(9): E141. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10090141
Calabria M., Grunden N., Iaia F., & García-Sánchez, C. (2020). Interference and facilitation in phonological encoding: Two sides of the same coin? Evidence from bilingual aphasia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 56, 100935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100935
Calabria M., Costa A., Green D., & Abutalebi J. (2018). Neural basis of Bilingual Language Control. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1426, 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13879

Cognitive reserve and bilingualism

To study how bilingualism may promote cognitive reserve in ageing and its mechanisms (neural efficiency and compensations).

Calabria M., Hernández M., Cattaneo G., Suades A., Serra M., Juncadella M., Reñé R., Sala I., Lleó A., Ortiz-Gil J., Ugas L., Ávila A., Gómez Ruiz I., Ávila C., & Costa A. (2020). Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107528
Timmer K., Calabria M., & Costa A. (2019). Non-linguistic effects of language switching training. Cognition, 182, 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.001

Music as a tool for cognitive stimulation

To study the parameters of music that may enhance learning in patients with mild cognitive impairment who suffer from memory deficits.

Project funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2020-118672RB-I00).

Web of the project https://marcocalabria.cat/mem-cog/

Neuropsychological deficits in patients with post-COVID

To study the short- and long-term deficits at cognitive and emotional level in patients with post-COVID.

Calabria, M., García-Sánchez, C., Grunden, N., Pons, C., Arroyo, J. A., Gómez-Anson, B., Estévez García, M. C., Belvís, R., Morollón, M., Vera Igual, J., Mur, I., Pomar, V., & Domingo, P. (2022). Post-COVID-19 fatigue: the contribution of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Journal of Neurology, 269, 3990–3999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11141-8.
García-Sánchez, C., Calabria, M., Grunden, N., Pons, C., Arroyo, J. A., Gómez-Anson, B., Lleó, A., Alcolea, D., Belvís, R., Morollón, M., Mur, I., Pomar, V., & Domingo, P. (2022). Neuropsychological deficits in patients with cognitive complaints after COVID-19. Brain and Behavior, e2508. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2508

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