Pierfilippo De Sanctis

Pierfilippo De Sanctis, Ph.D.

Area of research

  • Cognitive and Motor Aging, Dementia with a focus on Alzheimer's Disease

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  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center 1165 Morris Park Avenue Van Etten 1C-20A Bronx, NY 10461

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I am a Principal Investigator using portable EEG/3D-Body technology to measure brain dynamics in every day, real life situations such as spatial navigation and dual-task walking to capture subtle changes in cognition and everyday function during the preclinical stages using the A/T/N neuropathology classification of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias

Selected Publications

De Sanctis P, Molholm M, Foxe JJ, Blumen HM, Horsthuis DJ. Neural signature of mobility-related everyday function in older adults at-risk of cognitive impairment; accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Aging. 2023 Feb; 122: 1-11.

Verghese J, De Sanctis P, Ayers E. Everyday function profiles in prodromal stages of MCI: Prospective cohort study. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Feb;19(2):498-506

Time to move: Brain dynamics underlying natural action and cognition. De Sanctis P, Solis-Escalante T, Seeber M, Wagner J, Ferris DP, Gramann K. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2021 Dec;54(12):8075-8080. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15562.

Malcolm BR, F. J., Joshi S, Verghese J, Mahoney J, Molholm S, De Sanctis P. Aging-related changes in cortical mechanisms supporting postural control during standing under manipulations of optic flow and base of support: A mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) study. European Journal of Neuroscience 2020 Oct 12. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15004.

De Sanctis P, M., Malcolm B, Mabie PC, Francisco AA, Mowrey WB, Joshi S, Molholm S, Foxe JJ. Mobile Brain/Body Imaging of cognitive-motor impairment in multiple sclerosis: deriving EEG-based neuro-markers during a dual-task walking study. Clinical Neurophysiology 2020 Feb 21;131(5):1119-1128.

Malcolm B, Foxe JJ, Butler JS, Molholm S, and De Sanctis P. Cognitive load reduces the effects of optic flow on gait and electrocortical dynamics during treadmill walking. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Nov 1; 120(5):2246-2259

Malcolm BR, Foxe JJ, Butler JS, Mowrey WB, Molholm S, De Sanctis P. Long-term test-retest reliability of event-related potential (ERP) recordings during treadmill walking using the mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) approach. Brain Res. 2017 May 19(17) 30217-2.