Curriculum

Curriculum

Angelo LABATE was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy (27.02.1973).
He attended Medical School at the University of Messina, Italy. He graduated in 1997 with honours, after which he moved to the University of Catanzaro where acquired specialization in Neurology.
Positions:
February 2022-current  Full Professor of Neurology, Neurology Clinic, School of Medicine University of Messina, Messina, Italy
2019-Jenuary 2022    Director of the Program “Diagnosis and treatment of epilepsies".
2019-Jenuary 2022     Full Professor of Neurology, Neurology Clinic, School of Medicine 2001-2006      Researcher, Institute of Neurological Sciences, National Research Council, Mangone (CS), Italy;
2018-Jenuary 2022    Deputy director of Neurology Clinic, University of Catanzaro, Italy  
University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
2016-current              Encountered among the Top Italian Scientists (TIS-http://www.topitalianscientists.org/top_italian_scientists.aspx)
 
2014-2019                  Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurology Clinic, School of Medicine University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
2006-2014                   Neurology Researcher, Neurology Clinic, School of Medicine University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy 
2004-Jenuary 2022     Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
 
He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles; these have been cited in scientific publications more than 5,000 times, reaching a H-index of 46. He is also author of five book’s chapter.
He is appreciated investigator mainly for the role in the knowledge of the mild (benign) temporal lobe epilepsy. Indeed, the definitive description of this syndrome has been published in 2011 on Nature Reviews Neurology. 
In the last 15 years, his works established the relationship between mild temporal lobe epilepsy and brain imaging, with major global efforts focused on the search of imaging biomarkers discovery of drug responsiveness and understanding how structural brain abnormalities since adolescence cause seizures refractoriness. He also described structural neuroanatomical correlates of patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). Lastly, he is the author of a new hypothesis about the pathophysiology of epileptic déjà-vu.
He is currently an active investigator of the international ENIGMA Consortium, a global alliance of many scientists spread across many countries around the world collectively analyzing brain imaging, clinical, and genetic data to make more rapid progress towards fully understanding of the pathophysiology of epilepsies.