Short Bio

Psychologist with a master’s degree in neuroscience, with experience in neuropsychological evaluation focused on the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases and in the characterization of the cognitive profiles in patients with psychiatric illness. She is currently conducting a research about circadian rhythm sleep disorders in bipolar disorder and on the use of exogenous melatonin as a chronobiotic treatment in bipolar disorder, evaluating its impact on both mood symptoms and cognitive performance.

Publications

Sleep quality mediates the effect of chronotype on resilience in the time of COVID-19, Chronobiology International, 2021-06-03 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2021.1895199, ISSN: 0742-0528, ISSN: 1525-6073

Analysis of cognitive performance and polymorphisms of SORL1, PVRL2, CR1, TOMM40, APOE, PICALM, GWAS_14q, CLU, and BIN1 in patients with mild cognitive impairment and cognitively healthy controls, Neurología 2020-09 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1016/j.nrleng.2018.07.012, ISSN: 2173-5808

Differential Methylation in APOE (Chr19; Exon Four; from 44,909,188 to 44,909,373/hg38) and Increased Apolipoprotein E Plasma Levels in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019-03-20 | journal-article, DOI: 10.3390/ijms20061394, ISSN: 1422-0067

Brain structural correlates of executive and social cognition profiles in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and elderly bipolar disorder, Neuropsychologia, 2019-03 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.012, ISSN: 0028-3932

Análisis de desempeños cognitivos y polimorfismos en SORL, PVRL2, CR1, TOMM40, APOE, PICALM, GWAS_14q, CLU y BIN1 en pacientes con trastorno neurocognitivo leve y en sujetos cognitivamente sanos, Neurología, 2018-11 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2018.07.002, ISSN: 0213-4853

Cognitive Assessment Test: Validation of a Short Cognitive Test for the Detection of Mild Cognitive Disorder, International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2018-07-02 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1155/2018/3280621, ISSN: 2090-8024, ISSN: 2090-0252

Deterioro cognoscitivo en trastorno afectivo bipolar de larga evolución y demencia frontotemporal variante conductual, Acta Neurológica Colombiana, 2017-12-06 | journal-article, DOI: 10.22379/24224022162, ISSN: 0120-8748, ISSN: 2422 4022

Congress Partecipations

Role of circadian and sleep disturbances in Bipolar Disorder, online lession for the teaching ADE – La regolazione fisiologica del ritmo sonno-veglia e i suoi disturbi (1291Z – CDS: MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA [MED-LM6]), May 2021.

Chronotype in Bipolar Disorder: correlates with cognition and clinical variables. , Presentation in the webinar: Journal Club: Monitorare il Sonno Nell’ era degli Smartphone – Jatreia in collaborazione con SonnoLab, March 2021

Chronotype in Bipolar Disorder: correlates with cognition and clinical variables, Presentation in the Group Meeting Neuroscience: Monitoring sleep in the age of smartphones. University of Pisa, March 2021

L’irregolarità nel sonno come espressione di risk-taking behavior, Oral communication. XXX Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana Medicina del Sonno (AIMS). Il sonno e i suoi disturbi al tempo del Covid-19 Web Conference, october 2020

Correlazioni dello spettro dell’umore e dello stress posttraumatico con cronotipo serotino e variabili actigrafiche in pazienti con disturbo bipolare rispetto a controlli sani, Poster P.02.56. XXIV Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Psicopatologia. Trauma Reti Culture, february 2020,  Rome, Italy

Contacts

  • francy.cruzsanabria@phd.unipi.it
  • +39 3347493548