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  1. User Experience, System Usability, and Feasibility of Two Novel Immersive Virtual Reality Memory Tasks for Cognitive Training: A Pilot Study

    Article • Brain Sciences, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  2. Long-term associative memory and spatial pattern separation impairments in individuals with subjective cognitive decline: A neuropsychological and medial temporal lobe subregions volumetric analysis

    Article • Cortex, November 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  3. Delayed recall from the primacy portion of a story predicts conversion of patients with mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Journal of Neuropsychology, October 2025, Wiley

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  4. Abnormal Forgetting Rate from the Recency Portion of a Word-List in Patients with Subjective Cognitive Decline

    Article • Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  5. The effects of an immersive virtual reality and telemedicine-based multi-component intervention in individuals with subjective cognitive decline: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2025, Frontiers

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  6. Effects of virtual reality cognitive training on executive function and prospective memory in Parkinson's disease and healthy aging

    Article • Journal of the Neurological Sciences, June 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  7. The Role of the Anterior Thalamic Nuclei in the Genesis of Memory Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease: An Exploratory Study

    Article • Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, January 2024, IOS Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  8. The effectiveness of an immersive virtual reality and telemedicine-based cognitive intervention on prospective memory in Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment and healthy aged individuals: design and preliminary baseline results o...

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2023, Frontiers

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  9. Special issue on “Novel neuropsychological instruments for the prodromal and preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease”.

    Article • Neuropsychology, September 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  10. Exploring mechanisms that affect retrograde memory for public events in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A longitudinal update

    Article • Journal of Neuropsychology, April 2023, Wiley

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  11. Forgetting rate for the familiarity and recollection components of recognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A longitudinal study

    Article • Applied Neuropsychology Adult, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  12. Accelerated long-term forgetting in neurodegenerative disorders: A systematic review of the literature

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, October 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  13. The diagnostic usefulness of experimental memory tasks for detecting subjective cognitive decline: Preliminary results in an Italian sample.

    Article • Neuropsychology, August 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  14. Memory for public events in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: The role of hippocampus and ventro‐medial prefrontal cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuropsychology, June 2021, Wiley

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  15. Verbal and spatial memory spans in mild cognitive impairment

    Article • Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, May 2021, Wiley

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  16. A Lack of Practice Effects on Memory Tasks Predicts Conversion to Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Article • Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  17. Forgetting Rates on the Recency Portion of a Word List Predict Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease

    Article • Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, February 2020, IOS Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  18. Lost or unavailable? Exploring mechanisms that affect retrograde memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease patients

    Article • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  19. Forgetting Rate on the Recency Portion of a Word List Differentiates Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease from Other Forms of Dementia

    Article • Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, January 2019, IOS Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  20. The role of hippocampus in the retrieval of autobiographical memories in patients with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's disease

    Article • Journal of Neuropsychology, November 2018, Wiley

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  21. Predicting progression to Alzheimer’s disease in subjects with amnestic mild cognitive impairment using performance on recall and recognition tests

    Article • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  22. Forgetting Rate on the Recency Portion of a Word List Differentiates Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease from Other Forms of Dementi

    Article • Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, October 2018, IOS Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  23. Different deficit patterns on word lists and short stories predict conversion to Alzheimer’s disease in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    Article • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  24. Retrograde Amnesia for Episodic and Semantic Memories in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Article • Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, July 2017, IOS Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  25. Voxel-based morphometry: current perspectives

    Article • Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, July 2016, Dove Medical Press

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  26. Does retrieval frequency account for the pattern of autobiographical memory loss in early Alzheimer's disease patients?

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2016, Elsevier

    Maria Stefania De Simone

  27. When the single matters more than the group: Very high false positive rates in single case Voxel Based Morphometry

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2013, Elsevier

    Maria Stefania De Simone