SELECTED ARTICLES
Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Giulia Piccinini, Leonardo Di Cesare. WORDS: a new verbal memory test to evaluate cognitive health in a Zambian school-aged population. Journal of Innovations in Clinical Neurosciences (submitted for publication, October 2022)
Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare. WAVES: a Novel Test to Evaluate Visuospatial Construction Ability in a School-aged Journal of Innovations in Clinical Neurosciences (accepted for publication, Jan-March 2023)
Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare. Development of a Symbol Cancellation Test to evaluate attention in a school-aged Zambian population. Journal of Innovations in Clinical Neurosciences (accepted for publication, Jan-March 2023)
Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare. Development of a Cognitive Ability Assessment Tool (CAAT) for use in paediatric clinical trials in Sub-Saharan countries. Journal of Innovations in Clinical Neurosciences 2021;18(10–12):30–37
O’Gorman, R. Khoury, A. Anderson, M. Carter, F. Di Cesare, W. Chen, S. Dubé, L. Ereshefsky, T. Farchione, G. Grossberg, N. Hefting, S. Khan, S. Lind, V. Mantua, H. Moebius, T. Shiovitz, P. Rosenberg. A Framework for Developing Pharmacotherapy for Agitation in Alzheimer’s Disease: Recommendations of the ISCTM Working Group.” The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease Published on-line June, 26, 2020 J Prev Alzheimers Dis (2020). https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2020.37
Chapel, L. Alphs, F. Di Cesare, S. Marder, M. Stewart et al. Assessment of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior: Report of the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology Consensus Meeting.” J Clin Psychiatry 2017;78(6):e638–e647
F. Di Cesare, J. Mancuso, B. Silver, P. Loudon. Assessment of cognitive and neurologic recovery in ischemic stroke drug trials. Results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.” Journal of Innovations in Clinical Neurosciences, Innov Clin Neurosci 13 (9-10), 32-43. 2016 Oct 01.
F. Di Cesare, J. Mancuso, P. Woodward, M. Bednar, P. Loudon, for the A9541004 Stroke Study Group PDE5 inhibitor PF-03049423 Effect on Stroke Recovery. A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. November 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org./10.1016/i.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2015.11.026
F. Di Cesare, D. D’Ilario, M. Fioravanti. Differential characteristics of the aging process and the vascular cognitive impairment in the organization of memory retrieval.” Journal of Neurocognitive Sciences. November 2012,15;322(1-2):148-51. Epub 2012 Aug 4.
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
International Society of CNS clinical trials & methodology, Autumn Meeting, Virtual Venue, 21st-25th September 2020 Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare. “Development of a Cognitive Ability Assessment Tool (CAAT) for use in paediatric clinical trials in Sub-Saharan countries.”
International Society of CNS clinical trials & methodology, Autumn Meeting, Virtual Venue, 21st-25th September 2020 Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare. “Development of a Symbol Cancellation Test (SCT) for use in paediatric clinical trials in Sub-Saharan countries.”
International Society of CNS clinical trials & methodology, Autumn Meeting, Copenhagen, 5th-7th September 2019. Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, Leonardo Di Cesare, Kalima Kalima, Mwanza-Kabaghe Sylvia, Nkole Lisa, Kawatu Nfawama, Somwe Somwe, Ciccone Ornella. “New paediatric cognitive assessment methods for epilepsy clinical trials in middle-lower and low -income developing countries”.
International Society of CNS clinical trial & methodology, Autumn Meeting, Paris, 31 Aug – 2 Sept 2017. Franco Di Cesare and Cristiana Di Carlo.“Considerations on the conceptual framework and content validity of the Quality of Social Life Questionnaire (QoSL-Q), a patient reported outcome instrument to evaluate treatment response in clinical trials”.
International Society of CNS clinical trials & methodology, Autumn Meeting, Paris, 31 Aug – 2 Sept 2017. Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo, and Mario Fioravanti. Profiling cognitive impairment in recovered Major Depressive Disorder. Considerations on clinical characterisation of the study population and on unmet diagnostic needs.”
International Society of CNS clinical trials & methodology, 12th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 16-18 February 2016. Franco Di Cesare and Michelle Stewart. “Advancing trial design methodology to evaluate drug treatment effect on suicidal ideation and behavior.”
International Society of CNS Clinical Trials & Methodology (ISCTM) – Consensus Meeting on Methodological Considerations on suicide assessment and clinical trial design, Arlington, USA, 17-18 November 2015. Franco Di Cesare on behalf of the ISCTM Working Group on design clinical studies and development programs for regulatory approval of medicines to treat suicidal ideation and behaviour. “Design and methodology of suicide ideation and behaviour treatment studies.”
British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience, London, 7-10 April 2013. Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo. “LBR Memory Test: A new method to evaluate cognitive function in clinical and research settings.” British Neurosci. Assoc. Abstr. Vol. 22: P476, 2013.
British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience, London, 7-10 April 2013. Franco Di Cesare, Cristiana Di Carlo.“Encoding and retrieval deficits as early markers of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s Disease.” British Neurosci. Assoc. Abstr. Vol. 22: P845, 2013