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ZALONIS IOANNIS

Ioannis Zalonis

Associate Professor of Psychology-Neuropsychology

Laboratory of clinical neuropsychology

First Department of Neurology

Eginitio Hospital

Work address: Vas. Sofias avenue 72-74, Athens 11528

Work telephon:             +30 210 72 89 141

e-mail:                                                zalonis@med.uoa.gr

                                                            izalonis@gmail.com

Education

1974-1977 Ptychion in Philosophy, Baccalaureato in Filosofia, University «Saint Thomas», Rome

1977-1982, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Ptychion in Psychology, Experimental Orientation (Laurea di Dottore in Psicologia, Ind. Sperimentale)

1992-1999: Doctoral Thesis (in Greek) «Neuropsychological assessment of people at risk of central nervous system diseases due to chronic lead exposure», First Department of Neurology Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Distinction.

Psychology License: Number 8569/12-05-1997, Athens

 

Faculty academic appointments

  • 1985:  Psychologist in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital. Responsible for the organization and the equipment of Laboratory of clinical neuropsychology.
  • 2004: Lecturer in Psychology, in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital.
  • 2011-2018: Assistant Professor in Psychology, in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital.
  • 2018 - today: Associate Professor in Psychology, in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital.

 

Clinical work experience

1985-today: Head of Laboratory of clinical neuropsychology, First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital. In 34 years, more than 8500 have been assessed with neurological disorders as infections of central nervous system, strokes, traumatic brain injuries, neurodegenerative disorders, etc). For the identification of cognitive deficits, they are usually used several neuropsychological tests for the assessment of cognitive functions as attention, language, memory, perception and executive functions.

More specifically, at the Laboratory of Clinical Neuropsychology, they are being implemented the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-WAIS, the Multilingual Aphasia Examination, the Trail Making Test, the Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test, Letter Cancellation Task, the Memory Impairment Screen, the 3 Words 3 Shapes Test, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, the Buschke Selective Reminding Test, the Babcock Story Recall Test, the Wechsler Memory Scale, Memory Assessment Scales, the Corsi Block-Tapping Test, the Benton Visual Retention Test, the Clock Drawing, the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test, the Judgment of Line Orientation, the Tower of London, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. In addition, they are implemented Personality Questionnaires as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-MMPI, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire-16PF, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Spielberger State and Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Profile of Mood States-POMS. For the most of the aforementioned neuropsychological tests (Trail Making Test, Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test of Multilingual Aphasia Examination, 3 Words 3 Shapes Test, Clock Drawing Test, Babcock Story Recall Test, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Rey Complex Figure Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) we have gathered data from Greek-speaking healthy participants in order to investigate the effects of age, sex and years of formal schooling in the performance in neuropsychological tests. The majority of the normative data has been published in peer-reviewed journals and they have been saved in an electronic database for further clinical but also research purposes.

 

Clinical Supervisory and Training Responsibilities

  • 1990-today: Supervision of under- and post-graduate students training derived from Psychology departments in Athens, Ioannina and Crete.
  • 2004-today: Participation in master’s training programs and seminars conducted in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital, covering topics related with «Clinical Psychology», «Psychopathology», «Neuropsychology», «Cognitive dysfunctions in several neurological disorders».
  • 1985-2004: Training of Psychiatry interns in topics related with neuropsychological assessment.
  • 1992-2004: Teaching in nurse’s specialty program Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital.
  • June 2010-today: Supervision of training of master students for the accomplishment of masters’ program MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology-Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Supervision of master thesis.
  • Supervision of doctoral thesis.

Report of research activities (selection of)

  • 1988: Epidemiological study investigating correlations between validity of diagnosis and personality traits of doctors. 1st Psychiatric Department, University of Athens and Cardiological department of “Alexandra” hospital.
  • 1989: Adaption and standardization of “Vienna Computerized Tests System”
  • 1990:  Neuropsychological influence of HIV-1. 1st Psychiatric Department, University of Athens
  • 1991: Implementation of MMPI questionnaire for personality for the investigation of psychopathology traits and specific personality traits in specific patients’ groups. 1st Psychiatric Department, University of Athens.
  • 1991-1995: Investigation of possible neurodegenerative disorders due to atmospheric pollution exposure.
  • 1995-today: Neuropsychological assessment of patients with memory disorders and possibly dementia.
  • 1995-today: Neuropsychological assessment of patients with multiple sclerosis. Focus on patients with lesions in corpus callosum, in order to investigate their possible role in cognitive function.
  • 1996-1997: Frontal disorders in Atrophic Lateral Sclerosis, eye movements, neuropsychological deficits and consequences in executive functions.
  • 1997-2004: Assessment of patients with epilepsy in order to investigate whether patients are suitable for surgical therapy with “Neuro Cybernetic Prosthesis System (NCP)” for seizures control. Patients are being assessed on a regular basis. In addition, they are being assessed patients with seizures resistant to medications in order to investigate whether they are suitable for surgical therapy, in collaboration with Evagelismos hospital.
  • 2000-2004: Neuropsychological assessment of patients with Parkinson disease before and after surgery in order to investigate whether patients are suitable for surgical therapy and to identify post-surgical benefits.
  • 2002-2006: Standardization of Trail Making Test in Greek population.
  • 2003-2007: Adaptation and Standardization of Buschke Selective Reminding Test in Greek population.
  • 2004-2008: Adaptation and Standardization of Babcock Story Recall Test in Greek population.
  • 2005-2009: Adaptation and Standardization of Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test in Greek population.
  • 2008-today: Investigation of neuropsychological, psychopathological and sexual parameters, sleep quality and life quality of patients with ΟSΑS, before and after therapy with CPAP. In collaboration with Laboratory of Sleep Disorders, 1st Psychiatric Department, University of Athens and Evagelismos Hospital.
  • 2009: Standardization of Tower of London in Greek population.
  • 2009: Clock Rotation Neuropsychological Test invention, as a short neuropsychological assessment for the investigation of complex problems’ solving.
  • 2010: Investigation of neuropsychological parameters in relation with the presence of cerebrospinal fluid oligoclonal bands and clinical parameters in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.
  • 2011: Study of quality of life in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.
  • 2012-2012: Standardization of Ruff Figural Fluency, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Visual Search & Attention Test in Greek population.
  • 2012: Study of neuropsychological profile of patients with cephalalgia (including patients from the Outpatient clinic of cephalalgia – supervisor: E.Kararizou, Associate Professor of Neurology. 
  • 2012: Study of neuropsychological profile of patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy - in collaboration An. Bonakis, Lecturer of Neurology.
  • 2012: Study of neuropsychological profile of patients with Parkinson Disease (including patients from Outpatient clinic in collaboration with I.Evdokimidis, Professor of Neurology, C. Potagas, Associate Professor of Neurology).
  • 2013: Participation in standardization of 4th edition WAIS-IV. Supervisor: A.Stogiannidou, Professor of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
  • 2014-today: Study of neuropsychological and neuroanatomical profile of patients with clinical isolated syndrome and patients with multiple sclerosis. In collaboration with I.Evdokimidis, Professor of Neurology, C. Potagas, Associate Professor of Neurology along with doctors of department of demyelinating diseases in First Department of Neurology, Eginitio hospital.
  • 2014: Study of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, cognitive and behavioral consequences.
  • 2015: Investigation of brain, cognitive and psychological characteristics of patients with migraine due to substance abuse. In collaboration with E.Kararizou, Associate Professor of Neurology. 
  • 2016: Pre-surgical investigation of patients with medicine resistant frontal epilelpsy. In collaboration with Neurosurgery Department of “Evagelismos” Hospital.
  • 2017: Investigation of patients with temporal seizures, hippocampal sclerosis and consequence in verbal and visual fluency.
  • 2018- Normative data for Greek-speaking healthy individuals for the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised.

 

 

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