Sala Arianna

GIGA Neurosciences - NeuroRecovery Lab

Département des sciences cliniques

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ORCID
0000-0001-8121-0891
Main Referenced Co-authors
Perani, Daniela (27)
Gosseries, Olivia  (25)
Thibaut, Aurore  (25)
Laureys, Steven  (24)
Annen, Jitka  (17)
Main Referenced Keywords
Humans (19); Female (17); Male (17); Aged (15); Aged, 80 and over (12);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
CHU de Liège-Centre du Cerveau² - ULiège (3)
Giga Consciousness-Coma Science Group ; CHU de Liège - Centre du Cerveau² (2)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging (71)
Neurology (21)
Neurosciences & behavior (7)
Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (1)

Publications (total 100)

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Sanz, L., Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Panda, R., Sala, A., Dikenstein, D., Farber, N., Thibaut, A., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (01 June 2021). Apomorphine therapy for patients with disorders of consciousness: a multimodal open-label study [Paper presentation]. 7th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/262594

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153 citations (OpenAlex)

Caminiti, S. P., Ballarini, T., Sala, A., Cerami, C., Presotto, L., Santangelo, R., Fallanca, F., Vanoli, E. G., Gianolli, L., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2018). FDG-PET and CSF biomarker accuracy in prediction of conversion to different dementias in a large multicentre MCI cohort. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18, 167-177. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.019 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/260642

Sala, A. (08 July 2026). Towards the Neurochemical Architecture of Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) [Paper presentation]. ASSC.
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Cavaliere, C., Galli, A., Meneghini, C., Severino, M., Peretti, D. E., Nørgaard, M., Tang, C., Martini, A. L., Bardiau, M., Doyen, M., Gonzalez-Escamilla, G., Horwitz, T., Perovnik, M., Rullmann, M., Talmasov, D., Volpi, T., Xu, Z., Calhoun, V., Di, X., ... Caminiti, S. P. (June 2026). Molecular connectivity studies of cerebral glucose metabolism and blood flow: A scoping review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 185, 106623. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106623
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Xu, Z., Mijalkov, M., Sun, J., Chang, Y.-W., Sala, A., Volpe, G., Severino, M., Veronese, M., Garcia-Ptacek, S., Pereira, J. B., & Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (March 2026). Mapping individual molecular connectomes in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's and Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 22 (3), 71310. doi:10.1002/alz.71310
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Selte, A., Sanz, L., Andris, C., Thibaut, A., Larroque, S., Bernard, C., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., Sala, A.* , & Gosseries, O. (2026). A multimodal account of visual impairments in post-coma patients. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/339410. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8497586/v1
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Sala, A., Meys, M., Alnagger, N., Beliy, N., Abagnale, S., Szirmai, D., Ok, B. K., Wang, Z., Bardiau, M., Beaudart, C., Eickhoff, S. B., Martins, D., Tettamanti, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2026). Multimodal meta-analysis of brain integrity in disorders of consciousness. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/339409. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8480413/v1

Gillet, A., van der Lande, G., Aubinet, C., Cardone, P., Nunez Novo, P., Alnagger, N., Annen, J., Bernard, C., Bicego, A. Y., Cecconi, B., Fritz, P., Gosseries, O., Grégoire, C., Hustinx, R., Lejeune, N., Louras, M., Maquet, N., Marie, N., Martens, G., ... Sala, A. (28 November 2025). A Protocol and Preliminary Insights for the Acquisition of a Multimodal Brain Dataset of Healthy Participants [Poster presentation]. GIGANeuro Day.

Lizarraga, A.* , Sala, A.* , Koch, K., & Yakushev, I. (2025). Test-retest reproducibility of structural and proxy estimates of brain connectivity at rest. NeuroImage, 121558. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121558
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Galli, A., Inglese, M., Presotto, L., Malito, R., Di, X., Toschi, N., Pilotto, A., Padovani, A., Tassorelli, C., Perani, D., Sala, A.* , & Caminiti, S. P.*. (October 2025). Glucose metabolism in hyper-connected regions predicts neurodegeneration and speed of conversion in Alzheimer's disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 52 (12), 4639 - 4651. doi:10.1007/s00259-025-07379-9
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Gillet, A., PALMERI, D., Bernard, C., van der Lande, G., Aubinet, C., Cardone, P., Nunez Novo, P., Alnagger, N., Annen, J., Bicego, A. Y., Cecconi, B., Fritz, P., Gosseries, O., Grégoire, C., Lejeune, N., Louras, M., Maquet, N., Marie, N., Martens, G., ... Sala, A. (12 September 2025). A protocol for the construction of a multimodal brain dataset for healthy control subjects [Poster presentation]. GIGA DAY 2025, Liège, Belgium.
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Sala, A. (July 2025). Searching For The Neural Correlates Of Consciousness: What Can We Learn From Global States Of Consciousness? [Paper presentation]. ASSC.
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Pilotto, A., Galli, A., Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., Presotto, L., Liguori, C., Mercuri, N. B., Premi, E., Garibotto, V., Frisoni, G., Chiaravalloti, A., Schillaci, O., D'Amelio, M., Paghera, B., Lucchini, S., Bertagna, F., Perani, D., & Padovani, A. (July 2025). Dopaminergic deficits along the spectrum of Alzheimer's disease. Molecular Psychiatry, 30 (7), 3069 - 3076. doi:10.1038/s41380-025-02913-5
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Habeck, C., Sala, A., Sossi, V., & Talmasov, D. (2025). Validating brain connectivity measures: integrating biological, statistical, and clinical evidence [Paper presentation]. OHBM, Brisbane, Australia.
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Sala, A. (2025). Twenty years of research in disorders of consciousness: a meta-analysis of brain molecular, functional and structural alterations [Paper presentation]. Inauguration ceremony for the Zhejiang-Belgium Joint Laboratory for Disorders of Consciousness.
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Sala, A. (2025). Advances and future perspectives in positron emission tomography applied to disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. GIGA Neuroscience Day.
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Sala, A. (2025). History of macroscale brain connectivity [Paper presentation]. Molecular Imaging of Brain Connectivity: towards standardized nomenclature, Munich, Germany.
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Sala, A. (2025). Coordinate-based meta-analysis of brain alterations in disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. DOCBOX DAYS.
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Sala, A. (2025). Coordinate-based meta-analysis of brain alterations in disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. GIGA Consciousness Day.
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Severino, M., Peretti, D. E., Bardiau, M., Cavaliere, C., Doyen, M., Gonzalez-Escamilla, G., Horowitz, T., Nørgaard, M., Perez, J. A. M., Perovnik, M., Rullmann, M., Steenken, D., Talmasov, D., Tang, C., Volpi, T., Xu, Z., Bertoldo, A., Calhoun, V. D., Caminiti, S. P., ... Veronese, M. (2025). Molecular connectivity studies in neurotransmission: a scoping review. Imaging Neuroscience, 3. doi:10.1162/imag_a_00530
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Sala, A., Gosseries, O., Laureys, S., & Annen, J. (2025). Advances in neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Coma, Stupor, and Related Disorders of Consciousness. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-13408-1.00008-7
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Sanz, L., Lejeune, N., Szymkowicz, E., Bonin, E., Panda, R., Sala, A., Thibaut, A., Huerta-Gutierrez, R., Dardenne, N., Dikenstein, D., Van Goethem, S., Ledoux, D., Hustinx, R., Stender, J., Farber, N. M., Zafonte, R. D., Schiff, N. D., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (December 2024). Apomorphine for prolonged disorders of consciousness: a multimodal open-label study. EClinicalMedicine, 78, 102925. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102925
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Rogeau, A., Boer, A. J., Guedj, E., Sala, A., Sommer, I. E., Veronese, M., van der Weijden-Germann, M., EANM Neuroimaging Committee, & Fraioli, F. (2024). EANM perspective on clinical PET and SPECT imaging in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a systematic review of longitudinal studies. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. doi:10.1007/s00259-024-06987-1
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Mastenbroek, S. E.* , Sala, A.* , Vállez García, D., Shekari, M., Salvadó, G., Lorenzini, L., Pieperhoff, L., Wink, A. M., Lopes Alves, I., Wolz, R., Ritchie, C., Boada, M., Visser, P. J., Bucci, M., Farrar, G., Hansson, O., Nordberg, A. K., Ossenkoppele, R., Barkhof, F., ... Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative on behalf of the AMYPAD consortium. (09 July 2024). Continuous β-Amyloid CSF/PET Imbalance Model to Capture Alzheimer Disease Heterogeneity. Neurology, 103 (1), 209419. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000209419
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Sala, A. (2024). Assessing residual brain function in DoC patients with Positron Emission Tomography [Paper presentation]. DOCBOX DAYS.
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Meys, M., Wang, Z., Abagnale, S., Ok, B. K., Alnagger, N., Bardiau, M., Beaudart, C., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., Sala, A., & Annen, J. (2024). Global neurophysiological measures in disorders of consciousness: a meta-analysis [Paper presentation]. EAN, Budapest, Hungary.
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Sala, A. (2024). Multi-modal neurophysiological techniques to assess patients with disorders of consciousness - PET [Paper presentation]. ASSC, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sala, A. (2024). What is molecular imaging? [Paper presentation]. OHBM, Seoul, South Korea.
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Cecconi, B., van der Lande, G., & Sala, A. (2024). Neural Correlates of Consciousness. In Coma and Disorders of Consciousness. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-50563-8_1
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Sala, A. (2024). Brain PET imaging 2.0. How can molecular imaging capture brain connectivity? [Paper presentation]. EANM, Hambourg, Germany.
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Lizarraga, A., Ripp, I., Sala, A., Shi, K., Düring, M., Koch, K., & Yakushev, I. (2024). Similarity between structural and proxy estimates of brain connectivity. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 271678X231204769. doi:10.1177/0271678X231204769
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Imarisio, A., Pilotto, A., Premi, E., Caminiti, S. P., Presotto, L., Sala, A., Zatti, C., Lupini, A., Turrone, R., Paghera, B., Borroni, B., Perani, D., & Padovani, A. (October 2023). Atypical brain FDG-PET patterns increase the risk of long-term cognitive and motor progression in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 115, 105848. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105848
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Annen, J., Frasso, G., van der Lande, G., Bonin, E., Vitello, M., Panda, R., Sala, A., Cavaliere, C., Raimondo, F., Bahri, M. A., Schiff, N. D., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Laureys, S. (26 July 2023). Cerebral electrometabolic coupling in disordered and normal states of consciousness. Cell Reports, 42 (8), 112854. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112854
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Meys, M., Wang, Z., Abagnale, S., Kaan, B., Alnagger, N., Bardiau, M., Beaudart, C., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., Annen, J., & Sala, A. (25 July 2023). A Meta-Analysis of Global Neurophysiological Measures in Disorders of Consciousness [Poster presentation]. 29th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada.
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Meys, M., Danuta, S., Wang, Z., Abagnale, S., Kaan, B., Alnagger, N., Bardiau, M., Kói, T., Beaudart, C., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., Sala, A., & Annen, J. (23 June 2023). Disorders of Consciousness through Global Neurophysiological Measures: a Meta-Analysis [Paper presentation]. 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, New York, United States.

Sanz, L.* , Szymkowicz, E.* , Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Sala, A., Panda, R., Thibaut, A., Dardenne, N., Dikenstein, D., Van Goethem, S., Ledoux, D., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (01 April 2023). Multimodal open-label study of apomorphine in disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. 14th Biennial World Congress on Brain Injury, Dublin, Ireland.
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Sala, A., Lizarraga, A., Caminiti, S. P., Calhoun, V. D., Eickhoff, S. B., Habeck, C., Jamadar, S. D., Perani, D., Pereira, J. B., Veronese, M., & Yakushev, I. (2023). Brain connectomics: time for a molecular imaging perspective? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.015
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Sala, A., Kaan, B., Alnagger, N., Abagnale, S., Meys, M., Wang, Z., Bardiau, M., Eickhoff, S., Tettamanti, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2023). Brain alterations in disorders of consciousness: a coordinate-based metaanalysis. European Journal of Neurology, 30 (Supplement 1), 120-187.
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Sala, A., Kaan, B. O., Alnagger, N., Abagnale, S., Meys, M., Wang, Z., Bardiau, M., Eickhoff, S., Tettamanti, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2023). A coordinate-based meta-analysis of brain alterations in disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. OHBM.

Sala, A., Kaan, B. O., Alnagger, N., Abagnale, S., Meys, M., Wang, Z., Bardiau, M., Eickhoff, S., Tettamanti, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2023). Neural correlates of consciousness: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of brain alterations in disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Sala, A., Herfert, K., Gonzalez-Escamilla, G., Caminiti, S. P., & Bertoglio, D. (2023). Editorial: Imaging brain molecular connectivity in health and disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1298382. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1298382
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Lizarraga, A., Sala, A., Ripp, I., Koch, K., & Yakushev, I. (2023). Test-retest reproducibility of common estimates of brain connectivity [Paper presentation]. Resting State Brain Connectivity Conference.

Meys, M., Wang, Z., Abagnale, S., Kaan, B. O., Alnagger, N., Bardiau, M., Beaudart, C., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., Sala, A., & Annen, J. (2023). Global Neurophysiological Measures in Disorders of Consciousness: a MetaAnalysis. European Journal of Neurology, Supplement 1, 120-87.
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Leandro, S., Selte, A., Andris, C., Thibaut, A., Bonin, E., Larroque, S., Bernard, C., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., Sala, A., & Gosseries, O. (2023). Visual deficits and occipital metabolism correlate with levels of consciousness in severe brain injury [Paper presentation]. World Congress on Brain Injury, Ireland.

Sanz, L., Selte, A., Andris, C., Thibaut, A., Bonin, E., Larroque, S., Bernard, C., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., Sala, A., & Gosseries, O. (2023). Visual deficits and occipital metabolism correlate with levels of consciousness in severe brain injury [Paper presentation]. IBIA, Dublin, Ireland.
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Sala, A. (2023). Methods in molecular connectivity: getting at the single-subject level [Paper presentation]. Sinapsa Neuroscience Conference, Ljublijana, Slovenia.
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Sala, A., Ok, B. K., Alnagger, N., Abagnale, S., Meys, M., Wang, Z., Bardiau, M., Eickhoff, S., Tettamanti, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2023). Brain alterations in disorders of consciousness: a coordinate-based meta-analysis [Paper presentation]. EAN.
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Sala, A., Schindele, A., Beliy, N., Bernard, C., Panda, R., Phillips, C., Bahri, M. A., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O., Thibaut, A., & Annen, J. (2023). Development of an Automated Pipeline for the Analysis of [18F]FDG-PET Images in Disorders of Consciousness [Paper presentation]. IBIA, Dublin, Ireland.
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Sala, A. (2023). Molecular imaging and brain connectomics: present and future of molecular connectivity [Paper presentation]. Brain & Brain PET, Brisbane, Australia.
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Sanz, L.* , Szymkowicz, E.* , Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Sala, A., Panda, R., Thibaut, A., Dardenne, N., Dikenstein, D., Van Goethem, S., Ledoux, D., Hustinx, R., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (06 September 2022). Apomorphine dopaminergic neuromodulation in severe brain- injured patients with consciousness disorders – a pilot study [Paper presentation]. GIGA day 2022, Liège, Belgium.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cacciaglia, R., Salvadó, G., Molinuevo, J. L., Shekari, M., Falcon, C., Operto, G., Suárez-Calvet, M., Milà-Alomà, M., Sala, A., Rodriguez-Vieitez, E., Kollmorgen, G., Suridjan, I., Blennow, K., Zetterberg, H., Gispert, J. D., Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, & ALFA study. (April 2022). Age, sex and APOE-ε4 modify the balance between soluble and fibrillar β-amyloid in non-demented individuals: topographical patterns across two independent cohorts. Molecular Psychiatry, 27 (4), 2010 - 2018. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01436-7
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Sala, A. (2022). Emerging database of accessible positron emission tomography data of the brain [Paper presentation]. Brain & Brain PET, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Sala, A. (2022). PET for brain connectivity [Paper presentation]. Giornata Mondiale per l'Alzheimer.
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Sala, A. (2022). Lifelong bilingualism and mechanisms of neuroprotection in Alzheimer dementia. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25605
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Sala, A., Lizarraga, A., Ripp, I., Cumming, P., & Yakushev, I. (2022). Static versus Functional PET: Making Sense of Metabolic Connectivity. Cerebral Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab271
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Sala, A. (2022). An automated FDG-PET pipeline for the analysis of glucose brain metabolism in disorders of consciousness. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 42 (1 suppl), 108 - 273. doi:10.1177/0271678X221096357
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Sanz, L.* , Szymkowicz, E.* , Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Sala, A., Panda, R., Thibaut, A., Dardenne, N., Dikenstein, D., Van Goethem, S., LEDOUX, D., HUSTINX, R., LAUREYS, S., & Gosseries, O. (2022). Investigation of apomorphine-related neural mechanisms in severe brain-injured patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness [Paper presentation]. 25th annual meeting of the ASSC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Sanz, L., Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Panda, R., Sala, A., Dikenstein, D., Farber, N., Thibaut, A., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (29 July 2021). Increased brain metabolism and EEG connectivity after apomorphine therapy in patients with chronic disorders of consciousness [Poster presentation]. the 2021 Virtual World Congress on Brain Injury.
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Sanz, L., Lejeune, N., Bonin, E., Panda, R., Sala, A., Dikenstein, D., Farber, N., Thibaut, A., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (01 June 2021). Apomorphine therapy for patients with disorders of consciousness: a multimodal open-label study [Paper presentation]. 7th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology.
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Sala, A. (2021). A meta-analysis of brain glucose hypo-metabolism in patients with disorders a of consciousness [Paper presentation]. EANM.
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Sala, A. (2021). PET connectivity [Paper presentation]. Brainhack Nordic.
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Sala, A. (2021). In vivo human molecular neuroimaging of dopaminergic vulnerability along the Alzheimer’s disease phases. Alzheimer's Research and Therapy. doi:10.1186/s13195-021-00925-1
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Annen, J., Sala, A., Bonin, E., Sanz, L., Barra, A., Cecconi, B., Vitello, M., Szymkowicz, E., Cardone, P., BERNARD, C., Martial, C., LAUREYS, S., Gosseries, O., & Thibaut, A. (2021). FDG-PET/CT data of healthy volunteers and patients with disorders of consciousness. doi:10.25493/7TXP-WCF

Caminiti, S. P., Sala, A., Presotto, L., Chincarini, A., Sestini, S., Perani, D., Schillaci, O., Berti, V., Calcagni, M. L., Cistaro, A., Morbelli, S., Nobili, F., Pappatà, S., Volterrani, D., & Gobbo, C. L. (2021). Validation of FDG-PET datasets of normal controls for the extraction of SPM-based brain metabolism maps. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. doi:10.1007/s00259-020-05175-1
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Sala, A. (2021). Longitudinal pathways of cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography biomarkers of amyloid-β positivity [Paper presentation]. AAIC.
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Sala, A., Kaan Ok, B., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., LAUREYS, S., & Annen, J. (2021). A meta-analysis of brain glucose hypo-metabolism in patients with disorders of consciousness. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
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Sala, A., Annen, J., Thibaut, A., & LAUREYS, S. (2021). Disturbance of brain glucose metabolism in disorders of consciousness: a meta-analysis. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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Iaccarino, L.* , Sala, A.* , Caminiti, S. P., Presotto, L., & Perani, D. (2020). In vivo MRI Structural and PET Metabolic Connectivity Study of Dopamine Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 75 (3), 1003-1016. doi:10.3233/JAD-190954
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Perini, G., Rodriguez-Vieitez, E., Kadir, A., Sala, A., Savitcheva, I., & Nordberg, A. (2020). Clinical impact of (18)F-FDG-PET among memory clinic patients with uncertain diagnosis. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. doi:10.1007/s00259-020-04969-7
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Sala, A. (2020). Bilingualism modulates brain reserve and resting-state network connectivity [Paper presentation]. 8th Winter Seminar on Dementia, Bressanone, Italy.
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Sala, A. (2020). Imaging dopamine transporter activity in Alzheimer's disease: a molecular connectivity study [Paper presentation]. 8th Winter Seminar on Dementia, Bressanone, Italy.
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Sala, A., Nordberg, A., & Rodriguez-Vieitez, E. (2020). Longitudinal pathways of cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography biomarkers of amyloid-β positivity. Molecular Psychiatry. doi:10.1038/s41380-020-00950-w
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Santangelo, R., Masserini, F., Agosta, F., Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., Cecchetti, G., Caso, F., Martinelli, V., Pinto, P., Passerini, G., Perani, D., Magnani, G., & Filippi, M. (2020). CSF p-tau/Aβ(42) ratio and brain FDG-PET may reliably detect MCI "imminent" converters to AD. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. doi:10.1007/s00259-020-04853-4
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Carli, G., Caminiti, S. P., Sala, A., Galbiati, A., Pilotto, A., Ferini-Strambi, L., Padovani, A., & Perani, D. (2020). Impaired metabolic brain networks associated with neurotransmission systems in the α-synuclein spectrum. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 81, 113-122. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2020.10.036
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Catricalà, E., Polito, C., Presotto, L., Esposito, V., Sala, A., Conca, F., Gasparri, C., Berti, V., Filippi, M., Pupi, A., Sorbi, S., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., Cappa, S. F., & Perani, D. (2020). Neural correlates of naming errors across different neurodegenerative diseases: A FDG-PET study. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000010967
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Sala, A., Caprioglio, C., Santangelo, R., Vanoli, E. G., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2020). Brain metabolic signatures across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 47 (2), 256-269. doi:10.1007/s00259-019-04559-2
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Sala, A. (2019). Dopaminergic dysfunction in the ventrotegmental-mesocortical pathways in AD: a structural and molecular imaging study [Paper presentation]. 18th National Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience, Perugia, Italy.
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Santangelo, R., Dell'Edera, A., Sala, A., Cecchetti, G., Masserini, F., Caso, F., Pinto, P., Leocani, L., Falautano, M., Passerini, G., Martinelli, V., Comi, G., Perani, D., & Magnani, G. (2019). The CSF p-tau181/Aβ42 Ratio Offers a Good Accuracy "In Vivo" in the Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia. Current Alzheimer Research, 16 (7), 587-595. doi:10.2174/1567205016666190725150836
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Sala, A. (2019). Longitudinal investigation of concordant and discordant amyloid CSF/PET biomarkers reveals CSF-first and PET-first pathways of amyloid accumulation [Paper presentation]. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Los Angeles, United States.
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Sala, A. (2019). Concordant and discordant amyloid CSF/PET biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease: a longitudinal investigation [Paper presentation]. Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer’s research, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Sala, A. (2019). Longitudinal investigation of concordant and discordant amyloid CSF/PET biomarkers [Paper presentation]. Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, Miami, United States.
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Caminiti, S. P.* , Sala, A.* , Iaccarino, L.* , Beretta, L., Pilotto, A., Gianolli, L., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., Padovani, A., Ferini-Strambi, L., & Perani, D. (2019). Brain glucose metabolism in Lewy body dementia: implications for diagnostic criteria. Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, 11 (1), 20. doi:10.1186/s13195-019-0473-4
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* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Iaccarino, L., Sala, A., & Perani, D. (2019). Predicting long-term clinical stability in amyloid-positive subjects by FDG-PET. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 6 (6), 1113-1120. doi:10.1002/acn3.782
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Sala, A., Malpetti, M., Ferrulli, A., Gianolli, L., Luzi, L., & Perani, D. (2019). High body mass index, brain metabolism and connectivity: an unfavorable effect in elderly females. Aging, 11 (19), 8573-8586. doi:10.18632/aging.102347
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Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., Iaccarino, L., Beretta, L., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., Padovani, A., Ferini-Strambi, L., & Perani, D. (2019). Vulnerability of multiple large-scale brain networks in dementia with Lewy bodies. Human Brain Mapping, 40 (15), 4537-4550. doi:10.1002/hbm.24719
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Sala, A., Iaccarino, L., Fania, P., Vanoli, E. G., Fallanca, F., Pagnini, C., Cerami, C., Calvo, A., Canosa, A., Pagani, M., Chiò, A., Cistaro, A., & Perani, D. (2019). Testing the diagnostic accuracy of [18F]FDG-PET in discriminating spinal- and bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 46 (5), 1117-1131. doi:10.1007/s00259-018-4246-2
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Sala, A. (2019). Discordance of CSF and PET markers for amyloidosis: a longitudinal study [Paper presentation]. 7th Winter Seminar on Dementia, Bressanone, Italy.
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Sala, A., & Perani, D. (2019). Brain Molecular Connectivity in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Recent Advances and New Perspectives Using Positron Emission Tomography. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 617. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00617
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Malpetti, M., Carli, G., Sala, A., Cerami, C., Marcone, A., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2019). Variant-specific vulnerability in metabolic connectivity and resting-state networks in behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 120, 483-497. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.018
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Sala, A. (2018). Multi-network signature reflects clinical heterogeneity in Lewy body dementia [Paper presentation]. European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging, Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Sala, A. (2018). Long-term clinical stability in amyloid-positive subjects is predicted by negative FDG-PET scan [Paper presentation]. XII National SINDEM Meeting, Florence, Italy.
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Malpetti, M., Sala, A., Vanoli, E. G., Gianolli, L., Luzi, L., & Perani, D. (2018). Unfavourable gender effect of high body mass index on brain metabolism and connectivity. Scientific Reports, 8 (1), 12584. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-30883-y
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Caminiti, S. P., Ballarini, T., Sala, A., Cerami, C., Presotto, L., Santangelo, R., Fallanca, F., Vanoli, E. G., Gianolli, L., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2018). FDG-PET and CSF biomarker accuracy in prediction of conversion to different dementias in a large multicentre MCI cohort. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18, 167-177. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.019
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Presotto, L., Iaccarino, L., Sala, A., Vanoli, E. G., Muscio, C., Nigri, A., Bruzzone, M. G., Tagliavini, F., Gianolli, L., Perani, D., & Bettinardi, V. (2018). Low-dose CT for the spatial normalization of PET images: A validation procedure for amyloid-PET semi-quantification. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 153-160. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.07.013
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Iaccarino, L., Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., Santangelo, R., Iannaccone, S., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2018). The brain metabolic signature of visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 108, 13-24. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.06.014
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Sala, A. (2017). Body mass index and Alzheimer’s dementia: an unfavourable gender effect on brain metabolism and connectivity [Paper presentation]. 4th National Congress on Gender Medicine, Padua, Italy.
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Sala, A. (2017). Visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies: a brain FDG-PET metabolic study [Paper presentation]. European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging, Rome, Italy.
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Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., Presotto, L., Premi, E., Pilotto, A., Turrone, R., Cosseddu, M., Alberici, A., Paghera, B., Borroni, B., Padovani, A., & Perani, D. (2017). Altered brain metabolic connectivity at multiscale level in early Parkinson's disease. Scientific Reports, 7 (1), 4256. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04102-z
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Sala, A. (2017). Altered resting state network topographies in Dementia with Lewy Bodies [Paper presentation]. 5th winter seminar on Dementia, Bressanone, Italy.
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Caminiti, S. P., Tettamanti, M., Sala, A., Presotto, L., Iannaccone, S., Cappa, S. F., Magnani, G., & Perani, D. (2017). Metabolic connectomics targeting brain pathology in dementia with Lewy bodies. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 37 (4), 1311-1325. doi:10.1177/0271678X16654497
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Iaccarino, L., Sala, A., Caminiti, S. P., & Perani, D. (2017). The emerging role of PET imaging in dementia. F1000Research, 6, 1830. doi:10.12688/f1000research.11603.1
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Sala, A. (2016). Metabolic connectomics targeting brain pathology in Dementia with Lewy Bodies [Paper presentation]. 4th winter seminar on Dementia, Bressanone, Italy.
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