Gianfranco Spalletta is a Psychiatrist and has a PhD in Neuropsychology. He is the head of the Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry and the clinical director of the Neuropsychiatric Outpatient Clinic and the Memory Clinic of the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome. He teaches Psychiatry at the speech therapy, the nursing and the international medical schools of the Tor Vergata University in Rome. In 2013 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Iowa, and in 2014 at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. In 2015 he was nominated Adjunct Associate Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine of Houston, Texas, USA. He is author of more than 300 manuscripts published in peer review international journals and 10 book chapters (Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience fields). He edited the book Brain Morphometry of Springer Protocols and the book Childhood Trauma in Mental Disorders of Springer-Nature. He has collaborations with Academic Departments in Iowa City, Houston, South California, Dublin, Gottingen, Hannover, and Ülm. He is currently funded by the European Commission, the National Institute of Health (NIH) of the United States and the Italian Ministry of Health.