Antonio Di Carlo, MD - Neurologist
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Affiliation(s):
Institute of Neuroscience; Italian National Research Council
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Areas of Interest:
stroke, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease，mild cognitive impairment
Biography & Research:
Antonio Di Carlo, M.D., is a researcher of the Italian National Research Council, Institute of Neurosciences. He graduated at the University of Florence Medical School, was resident and fellow at the Department of Neurology of the University of Florence. Specialty degree in Neurology.
Major areas of interest are epidemiology and implementation of research results, organisation, knowledge and care of age-related neurological diseases, mainly stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease and peripheral neuropathies. This was developed in a number of national and international projects, involving large number of subjects in population-based studies and of patients in several hospital registers.
Main results are the publication of original data on frequency and prognosis of major cardiovascular and neurological disease in Italy, frequency and prognosis of stroke, dementia and Parkinson’s disease in Europe, frequency of mild cognitive impairment in Italy, role of age, gender and vascular risk factors on stroke severity, relevance of stroke unit care, quality indicators, and continuity of care in prognosis of stroke patients, strategies of implementation of research results in stroke care in Europe. He has been involved in several EU Projects, such as Eurostroke, EC Biomed Stroke Project, Monitoring Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Elderly of Europe, European Registries of Stroke (EROS), European Implementation Score (EIS).
