Marco Iacoboni, M.D. Ph.D.
• Professor in Residence - Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
• Member - ACCESS Program, Access Neuroscience Home Area, Brain Research Institute, Neuroscience IDP
Biography
Marco Iacoboni is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. Iacoboni is a neurologist and neuroscientist originally from Rome, Italy. He joined the faculty of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA in 1999. Marco Iacoboni investigates the neural basis of sensory-motor integration, imitation and social cognition in humans with functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). In particular, his group investigates the human mirror neuron system and its role in social behavior and its disorders. Iacoboni’s work, funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, has been covered by the New York Times (front page), Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The Economist, and major TV networks. Marco Iacoboni’s book on mirror neurons, entitled Mirroring People: The New Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others, is published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (hard cover) and Picador (paperback).
His Google Scholar page is
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Publications
Treatment of Spider Phobia Using Repeated Exposures and Adjunctive Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Proof-of-Concept StudyLeuchter MK, Rosenberg BM, Schapira G, Wong NR, Leuchter AF, McGlade AL, Krantz DE, Ginder ND, Lee JC, Wilke SA, Tadayonnejad R, Levitt J, Marder KG, Craske MG, Iacoboni M.Frontiers in psychiatry. 2022-Mar-15;13
PMID:
35370840 DOI:
10.3389/fpsyt.2022.823158 PMCID: PMC8965447
A novel technique for accurate electrode placement over cortical targets for transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) clinical trialsJog M, Anderson C, Kim E, Garrett A, Kubicki A, Gonzalez S, Jann K, Iacoboni M, Woods R, Wang DJ, Narr KL.Journal of Neural Engineering. 2021-Oct-11;18:5
PMID:
34555822 DOI:
10.1088/1741-2552/ac297d PMCID: PMC8594950
Mentalizing imagery therapy for depressed family dementia caregivers: Feasibility, clinical outcomes and brain connectivity changesJain FA, Chernyak S, Nickerson L, Abrams M, Iacoboni M, Christov-Moore L, Connolly CG, Fisher LB, Sakurai H, Bentley K, Tan E, Pittman M, Lavretsky H, Leuchter AF. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 2021-Jul-1;5
PMID:
34498016 DOI:
10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100155 PMCID: PMC8423372
In-vivo imaging of targeting and modulation of depression-relevant circuitry by transcranial direct current stimulation: a randomized clinical trialJog MS, Kim E, Anderson C, Kubicki A, Kayathi R, Jann K, Yan L, Leaver A, Hellemann G, Iacoboni M, Woods RP, Wang DJJ, Narr KL. Translational Psychiatry. 2021-Feb-24;11:1
PMID:
33627624 DOI:
10.1038/s41398-021-01264-3 PMCID: PMC7904813
Paired Associative Stimulation as a Tool to Assess Plasticity Enhancers in Chronic StrokeSilverstein J, Cortes M, Tsagaris KZ, Climent A, Gerber LM, Oromendia C, Fonzetti P, Ratan RR, Kitago T, Iacoboni M, Wu A, Dobkin B, Edwards DJ. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2019-Aug-2;13
PMID:
31427918 DOI:
10.3389/fnins.2019.00792 PMCID: PMC6687765
Separable and Replicable Neural Strategies During Social Brain Function in People With and Without Severe Mental IllnessHawco C, Buchanan RW, Calarco N, Mulsant BH, Viviano JD, Dickie EW, Argyelan M, Gold JM, Iacoboni M, DeRosse P, Foussias G, Malhotra AK, Voineskos AN; SPINS Group.The American journal of psychiatry. 2019-Jul-1;176(521-530):7
PMID:
30606045 DOI:
10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.17091020 Grief, Mindfulness and Neural Predictors of Improvement in Family Dementia CaregiversJain FA, Connolly CG, Moore LC, Leuchter AF, Abrams M, Ben-Yelles RW, Chang SE, Ramirez Gomez LA, Huey N, Lavretsky H, Iacoboni M.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2019-May-14;13
PMID:
31156412 DOI:
10.3389/fnhum.2019.00155 PMCID: PMC6530345
Single transcranial direct current stimulation in schizophrenia: Randomized, cross-over study of neurocognition, social cognition, ERPs, and side effectsRassovsky Y, Dunn W, Wynn JK, Wu AD, Iacoboni M, Hellemann G, Green MF.PLoS One. 2018-May-7;13:5
PMID:
29734347 DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0197023 PMCID: PMC5937783
A four-dimensional probabilistic atlas of the human brain.Mazziotta J; Toga A; Evans A; Fox P; Lancaster J; Zilles K; Woods R; Paus T; Simpson G; Pike B; Holmes C; Collins L; Thompson P; MacDonald D; Iacoboni M; Schormann T; Amunts K; Palomero-Gallagher N; Geyer S; Parsons L; Narr K; Kabani N; Le Goualher G; Feidler J; Smith K; Boomsma D; Hulshoff Pol H; Cannon T; Kawashima R; Mazoyer B; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2001-Aug-27;8(401-30):5
PMID:
11522763 DOI:
10.1038/nn758 PMCID: PMC131040
