Mauro Ceroni
Mauro Ceroni was born in Oltre il Colle near Bergamo on 12/7/1951. He attended the Classical High School in Bergamo, graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Pavia, and specialized in Neurology in 1979. He dedicated himself to the Neurological Clinic, and from 1986 to 1990, he was in the USA at the NIH in Bethesda as an Experimental Neurobiologist contributing to the discovery of the nature of prions (mad cow disease). He is the author of over 230 articles in international journals. He is the head of the General Neurology Department at the Mondino National Neurological Institute and an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pavia. He is the co-author of Consciousness, a 1087-page book on consciousness and neuroscience.