Roberta Batttini | Editor
Affilation: Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Italy
Biography:
Roberta Battini is a specialist in Pediatrics and Child Neuro-psychiatry and after her specialization in Pediatrics with studies in pediatric endocrinological matter she devoted her interest and new specialization toward the neurology of developmental age into the Institute of Scientific Research “Stella Maris” in Pisa. Since her first neuropsychiatric research studies she has always dedicated herself to the Laboratory aspects of neurometabolic disorders, including in particular the biochemical and genetical biomarkers. Since she arrived at the Stella Maris Scientific Institute the main topics of both her clinical and research interests were neurodevelopmental disorders, including neurometabolic and neurodegenerative disorders, neuromuscular disorders and movement disorders. She started to work at MRI Lab with a specific interest in the study of MR Spectroscopy (MRS) and, in collaboration with the MRI team, she tried to apply this particular technique in children and adolescents in order to better define their clinical pictures. In this way she contributed to the clinical, neurochemical (biochemical and MRS profile) and genetical definition of a new inborn error of metabolism in children (Brain Creatine Deficiency Syndromes).
Research Interest
Pediatric endocrinological research; Neurometabolic and neurodegenerative disorders; Rare neurologic diseases; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Gene mutations.














