Role
Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco
Bio
After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Brescia in 1993, she continued her studies with a training in neurology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She subsequently earned a PhD in Neuroscience from University College London and specialized in Behavioral Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in San Francisco. In recent years, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, in addition to teaching neurology at San Francisco, has been involved in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia (PPA), also using neuroimaging techniques and language neuropsychology.
Gorno Tempini directs the Language Neurobiology Laboratory at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center . She also co-founded the UCSF Dyslexia Center in 2015 and is the center's co-director.
At the UCSF Dyslexia Center, she leads a large, multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists with expertise in behavioral neurology, cognitive neuroscience, speech-language pathology, and advanced neuroimaging techniques. Her work in neurodevelopmental disorders aims to uncover the distinct clinical and biological phenotypes of dyslexia and the best approaches to diagnose and treat them.
She has authored over 170 peer-reviewed articles on the neurobiology of language disorders and has been invited to speak at conferences around the world, including the American Academy of Neurology and the Italian Senate.