Nicola Canessa

Nicola Canessa, PhD Neuroscience, Associate Professor (M-PSI/02 - Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology) at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IUSS – Pavia, Italy); member of the Cognitive Neuroscience unit (Division of Neuroscience) at the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (Milan, Italy). After a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology (San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; 1996-2001) he obtained a PhD in Neuroscience (Institute of Human Physiology, University of Parma, Italy; 2002-2006). Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology of San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy) from March 2010 to October 2014. He spent research periods at the Department of Cognitive Science of the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA), at the sector of Cognitive Neuroscience of the SISSA (Trieste, Italy), and at the Institute of Medicine of Research Centre Juelich (Juelich, Germany). His research activity is based on the application of neuroimaging techniques (particularly functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging) to the study of the neural bases of cognitive processes, and particularly decision-making (i.e. Decision Neuroscience) and social cognition (Social Neuroscience), both in health and disease. He is ad-hoc reviewer for several indexed scientific journals, as well as for national and international funding agencies.

Selected publications

Books

• Canessa N. (2017) O sonho da razão. Como funciona o cérebro. EMSE EDAPP
• Canessa N. (2016) Il Sogno della ragione. Come funziona il cervello. Hachette
• Canessa N. (2016) El sueño de la razón. Cómo funciona el cerebro. Emse Publishing
• Cappa S. , N. Canessa (2015) Neuroeconomics. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition - Elsevier
• Canessa N. , A. Dodich , C. Crespi , S. Cappa (2015) Neuroscience of decision-making. In De las Neurosciences a la Neuropsicología - estudio del cerebro humano - Corporación Universitaria Reformada Editions
• Crespi C. , G. Pantaleo , S. Cappa , N. Canessa (2012) Private and social counterfactual emotions. Behavioural and neural effects. In Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making. London and New York:Routledge
• Canessa N. , G. Pantaleo (2011) Il cervello “sociale” alla scoperta delle intenzioni altrui. In Altruismo e comportamento prosociale. Temi e prospettive a confronto. Milano: FrancoAngeli
• Canessa N. , G. Pantaleo , S. Cappa , C. Scaffidi Abbate (2011) Le basi (neuro) biologiche dei processi cognitivi ed affettivi sottostanti il comportamento prosociale. In Altruismo e comportamento prosociale. Temi e prospettive a confronto. Milano: FrancoAngeli
• Pantaleo G. , N. Canessa (2011) “Prospettive multiple”, comportamento prosociale e altruismo: oltre la civiltà dell’empatia. In Altruismo e comportamento prosociale. Temi e prospettive a confronto. Milano: FrancoAngeli
• Motterlini M. , N. Canessa (2009) Alla ricerca delle basi neurobiologiche della decisione: il ruolo del rimpianto. In Nuova civiltà delle macchine 4: 80-94
• Canessa N. , A. Gorini , . (a cura di) (2008) Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, Le scienze cognitive classiche: un panorama. Einaudi
• Canessa N. (2008) Emozione, cognizione e lobo frontale: lo strano caso di Phineas Gage. In Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Le scienze cognitive classiche: un panorama. Einaudi
• Canessa N. (2008) Azione, percezione e cognizione: i neuroni specchio. in Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Le scienze cognitive classiche: un panorama. Einaudi
• Canessa N. (2008) Deficit semantici selettivi. In Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Le scienze cognitive classiche: un panorama. Einaudi

Papers

• Galandra C., C. Crespi, G. Basso, M. Manera, I. Giorgi, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2020) Decreased information processing speed and decision-making performance in alcohol use disorder: combined neurostructural evidence from VBM and TBSS. Brain Imaging and Behavior
• Galandra C., C. Crespi, G. Basso, N. Canessa (2020) Impaired learning from regret and disappointment in alcohol use disorder. Scientific Reports
• Arioli M., C. Gianelli, N. Canessa (2020) Neural representation of social concepts: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies. Brain Imaging and Behavior
• Arioli M., G. Basso, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2020) Fronto-temporal brain activity and connectivity track implicit attention to positive and negative social words in a novel socio-emotional Stroop task. Neuroimage
• Arioli M., G. Basso, I. Carne, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2020) Increased pSTS activity and decreased pSTS-mPFC connectivity when processing negative social interactions  . Behavioural Brain Research
• Dodich A., M. Zollo, C. Crespi, S. Cappa, D. Laureiro-Martinez, A. Falini, N. Canessa (2019) Short-term sahaja yoga meditation training modulates brain structure and spontaneous activity in the executive control network. Brain and Behavior
• Brusoni S., N. Canessa, D. Laureiro-Martinez, M. Zollo (2019) Exploring exploration: the role of affective states as forces that prevent change. Industrial and Corporate Change
• Arioli M., N. Canessa (2019) Neural processing of social interaction: coordinate-based meta-analytic evidence from human neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping
• Galandra C., G. Basso, M. Manera, C. Crespi, I. Giorgi, G. Vittadini, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2019) Abnormal fronto-striatal intrinsic connectivity reflects executive dysfunction in alcohol use disorders. Cortex
• Crespi C., C. Galandra, M. Manera, G. Basso, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2019) Executive impairment in Alcohol Use Disorder reflects structural changes in large-scale brain networks: A joint Independent Component Analysis on grey-matter and white-matter features. Frontiers in Psychology
• Rolandi E., A. Dodich, S. Galluzzi, C. Ferrari, S. Mandelli, F. Ribaldi, G. Munaretto, C. Ambrosi, R. Gasparotti, D. Violi, N. Canessa, S. Iannaccone, A. Marcone, A. Falini, H. Hampel, G. Frisoni, C. Cerami, E. Cavedo (2019) Randomized controlled trial on the eicacy of a multilevel non-pharmacologic intervention in older adults with subjective memory decline: design and baseline indings of the E.Mu.N.I. study. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
• Crespi C., C. Galandra, N. Canessa, M. Manera, P. Poggi, G. Basso (2019) Microstructural damage of white-matter tracts connecting large-scale networks is related to impaired executive profile in Alcohol Use Disorder. Neuroimage Clinical
• Canessa N., C. Castronovo, S. Cappa, S. Marelli, A. Iadanza, A. Falini, L. Ferini-Strambi (2018) Sleep apnea: altered brain connectivity underlying a working-memory challenge. Neuroimage Clinical
• Crespi C., A. Dodich, S. Cappa, N. Canessa, S. Iannaccone, M. Corbo, C. Lunetta, A. Falini, C. Cerami (2018) Multimodal MRI quantification of the common neurostructural bases within the FTDALS continuum. Neurobiology of Aging
• Arioli M., D. Perani, S. Cappa, A. Proverbio, A. Zani, A. Falini, N. Canessa (2018) Affective and cooperative social interactions modulate effective connectivity within and between the mirror and mentalizing systems. Human Brain Mapping
• Realmuto S., A. Dodich, R. Meli, N. Canessa, P. Ragonese, G. Salemi, C. Cerami (2018) Moral Cognition and Multiple Sclerosis: A Neuropsychological Study. Arch Clin Neuropsychol.
• Arioli M., C. Crespi, N. Canessa (2018) Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BioMed Research International
• Galandra C., G. Basso, M. Manera, C. Crespi, I. Giorgi, G. Vittadini, P. Poggi, N. Canessa (2018) Salience network structural integrity predicts executive impairment in alcohol use disorders. Scientific Reports
• Crespi C., D. Laureiro-Martinez, A. Dodich, S. Cappa, S. Brusoni, M. Zollo, A. Falini, N. Canessa (2018) Improving innovative decision-making: training-induced changes in frontoparietal networks. Brain and cognition
• Layden E., J. Cacioppo, S. Cacioppo, S. Cappa, A. Dodich, A. Falini, N. Canessa (2017) Perceived Social Isolation is Associated with Altered Functional Connectivity in Neural Networks Associated with Tonic Alertness and Executive Control. Neuroimage. 2017 Jan 15;145(Pt A):58-73
• Canessa N., C. Crespi, G. Baud-Bovy, A. Dodich, A. Falini, G. Antonellis, S. Cappa (2017) Neural markers of loss aversion in resting-state brain activity. Neuroimage. 2017 Feb 1;146:257-265
• Arioli M., N. Canessa (2017) Dalla Neuroeconomia alla Neuroetica: verso una neuro-scienza delle decisioni morali. Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
• Galandra C., G. Basso, S. Cappa, N. Canessa (2017) The alcoholic brain: neural bases of impaired reward-based decision-making in alcohol use disorders. Neurological Sciences
• Dodich A., C. Cerami, C. Crespi, N. Canessa, G. Lettieri, S. Iannaccone, A. Marcone, S. Cappa, J. Cacioppo (2016) Differential Impairment of Cognitive and Affective Mentalizing Abilities in Neurodegenerative Dementias: Evidence from Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Alzheimer's disease
• Crespi C., C. Cerami, A. Dodich, N. Canessa, S. Iannaccone, M. Corbo, C. Lunetta, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2016) Microstructural Correlates of Emotional Attribution Impairment in Non-Demented Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. PLoS ONE
• Dodich A., C. Cerami, S. Iannaccone, A. Marcone, P. Alongi, C. Crespi, N. Canessa, F. Andreetta, A. Falini, S. Cappa, D. Perani (2016) Neuropsychological and FDG-PET profiles in VGKC autoimmune limbic encephalitis. Brain and Cognition
• Cappa S., E. Catricalà, E. Zanin, A. Falini, N. Canessa (2016) The role of feature type and semantic domain in effective connectivity underlying semantic retrieval. Program No. 363.03/LLL48.. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA
• Laureiro-Martinez D., S. Brusoni, N. Canessa, M. Zollo (2015) Understanding the exploration-exploitation dilemma: An fMRI study of attention control and decision-making performance. Strategic Management Journal
• Realmuto S., L. Zummo, C. Cerami, L. Agrò, A. Dodich, N. Canessa, A. Zizzo, B. Fierro, O. Daniele (2015) Social cognition dysfunctions in patients with epilepsy: Evidence from patients with temporal lobe and idiopathic generalized epilepsies. Epilepsy and Behavior
• Caminiti S., N. Canessa, C. Cerami, A. Dodich, C. Crespi, S. Iannaccone, A. Marcone, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2015) Affective mentalizing and brain activity at rest in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia. Neuroimage Clinical
• Dodich A., C. Cerami, N. Canessa, C. Crespi, S. Iannaccone, A. Marcone, S. Realmuto, G. Lettieri, D. Perani, S. Cappa (2015) A novel task assessing intention and emotion attribution: Italian standardization and normative data of the Story-based Empathy Task. Neurological Sciences
• Canessa N., G. Pantaleo, C. Crespi, A. Gorini, S. Cappa (2014) The impact of egocentric vs. allocentric agency attributions on the neural bases of reasoning about social rules. Brain research
• Cerami C., A. Dodich, N. Canessa, C. Crespi, A. Marcone, F. Cortese, G. Chierchia, E. Scola, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2014) Neural correlates of empathic impairment in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer's & dementia
• Crespi C., C. Cerami, A. Dodich, N. Canessa, M. Arpone, S. Iannaccone, M. Corbo, C. Lunetta, E. Scola, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2014) Microstructural white matter correlates of emotion recognition impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Cortex
• Laureiro-Martinez D., N. Canessa, S. Brusoni, M. Zollo, T. Hare, F. Alemanno, S. Cappa (2014) Frontopolar cortex and decision-making efficiency: comparing brain activity of experts with different professional background during an exploration-exploitation task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• Laureiro-Martinez D., S. Brusoni, N. Canessa, M. Zollo (2014) Understanding the exploration-exploitation dilemma: An fMRI study of attention control and decision-making performance. Strategic Management Journal
• Dodich A., C. Cerami, N. Canessa, C. Crespi, A. Marcone, M. Arpone, S. Realmuto, S. Cappa (2014) Emotion recognition from facial expressions: A normative study of the Ekman 60-Faces Test in the Italian population. Neurological Sciences
• Canessa N., C. Crespi, M. Motterlini, G. Baud-Bovy, G. Chierchia, G. Pantaleo, M. Tettamanti, S. Cappa (2013) The functional and structural neural basis of individual differences in loss aversion. The Journal of Neuroscience
• Cerami C., A. Dodich, N. Canessa, C. Crespi, S. Iannaccone, M. Corbo, C. Lunetta, M. Consonni, E. Scola, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2013) Emotional empathy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a behavioural and voxel-based morphometry study. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener
• Canessa N., F. Alemanno, F. Riva, A. Zani, A. Proverbio, N. Mannara, D. Perani, S. Cappa (2012) The neural bases of social intention understanding: the role of interaction goals. PLoS One
• Canessa N., C. Castronovo, S. Cappa, M. Aloia, S. Marelli, A. Falini, F. Alemanno, L. Ferini-Strambi (2011) Obstructive sleep apnea: brain structural changes and neurocognitive function before and after treatment. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
• Canessa N., L. Ferini-Strambi (2011) Sleep-disordered breathing and cognitive decline in older adults. JAMA
• Canessa N., M. Motterlini, F. Alemanno, D. Perani, S. Cappa (2011) Learning from other people's experience: a neuroimaging study of decisional interactive-learning. Neuroimage
• Di Dio C., N. Canessa, S. Cappa, G. Rizzolatti (2011) Specificity of esthetic experience for artworks: an FMRI study. PLoS One
• Proverbio A., F. Riva, L. Paganelli, S. Cappa, N. Canessa, D. Perani, A. Zani (2011) Neural coding of cooperative vs. affective human interactions: 150 ms to code the action's purpose. PLoS One
• Canessa N. (2011) Il cervello decisore. Neuroeconomia tra passato e futuro.. Scienza e Filosofia
• Canessa N., M. Motterlini, C. Di Dio, D. Perani, P. Scifo, S. Cappa, G. Rizzolatti (2009) Understanding others' regret: a FMRI study. PLoS One
• Castronovo C., N. Canessa, L. Ferini-Strambi, M. Aloia, M. Consonni, S. Marelli, A. Iadanza, A. Bruschi, A. Falini, S. Cappa (2009) Brain activation changes before and after PAP treatment in obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep
• Marques J., N. Canessa, S. Cappa (2009) Neural differences in the processing of true and false sentences: insights into the nature of 'truth' in language comprehension. Cortex
• Canessa N., F. Borgo, S. Cappa, D. Perani, A. Falini, G. Buccino, M. Tettamanti, T. Shallice (2008) The different neural correlates of action and functional knowledge in semantic memory: an FMRI study. Cerebral Cortex
• Marques J., N. Canessa, S. Siri, E. Catricalà, S. Cappa (2008) Conceptual knowledge in the brain: fMRI evidence for a featural organization. Brain Research
• Cappa S., N. Canessa (2008) The social brain: a new frontier for neuroscience. Encyclopaideia
• Tessari A., N. Canessa, M. Ukmar, R. Rumiati (2007) Neuropsychological evidence for a strategic control of multiple routes in imitation. Brain
• Vogt S., G. Buccino, A. Wohlschlager, N. Canessa, N. Shah, K. Zilles, S. Eickhoff, H. Freund, G. Rizzolatti, G. Fink (2007) Prefrontal involvement in imitation learning of hand actions: effects of practice and expertise. Neuroimage
• Canessa N., A. Gorini, S. Cappa, M. Piattelli-Palmarini, M. Danna, F. Fazio, D. Perani (2005) The effect of social content on deductive reasoning: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping
• Buccino G., F. Lui, N. Canessa, I. Patteri, G. Lagravinese, F. Benuzzi, C. Porro, G. Rizzolatti (2004) Neural circuits involved in the recognition of actions performed by nonconspecifics: an FMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience