Lambros Messinis
Lambros Messinis is Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, in the Department of Psychology, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neuroscience in the department and director of the Division Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour. He graduated from the University of Johannesburg (p. RAU), South Africa majoring in Psychology/Applied Psychology and Human Physiology. He then obtained a postgraduate master’s degree with an emphasis in Clinical Health Psychology from the same University. He further obtained two Doctoral (PhD) degrees, one from the University of Johannesburg, Behavioural Medicine-Clinical Psychology Section, Unit of Psychophysiology in 1997 and a second from the University of Patras Medical School, Neurology Department, specializing in Neuropsychology and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in 2017. He also completed post – doctoral research/fellowships between 1997 and 1999 in the Medical Physics Laboratory, at the University of Patras Medical School, with an emphasis in Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging, and between 2018-2019 in the Neurology Department, of the University of Ioannina Medical School, with an emphasis in Neuropsychology and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. From June 2003 until April of 2021, he was employed at the University Hospital of Patras, in Greece, where he directed the Memory-Neuropsychology unit of the Neurology Department and the Neuropsychology Laboratory of the Psychiatric Department in the same hospital. He has published over 150 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals with a high citation record and impact factor. He is an ad-hoc peer reviewer in a large serious of international journals with a high reputation and member of the Editorial Boards of several prestigious journals (e.g., Behavioural Neurology, Scientific Reports). He is presently Associator Editor in the high impact journal Frontiers in Psychology – Neuropsychology Section. He has participated in several national and international research protocols and organized scientific meetings / conferences. He is also on the advisory committees / review groups of several grant applications.
Messinis, L., & Nasios, G. (2021). The impact of COVID 19 on neuropsychological functions: implications for cognitive Neurorehabilitation: Editorial, EC Neurology, 13(4), 01-03.
Virvidaki I. E., Messinis, L., Nasios, G. Pure word deafness due to bilateral temporal lobe Ischemic stroke occurring at different time points over years: a case report on the insight of brain language network reorganization, Neurocase, DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2021.1896744
Messinis, L., O’Donovan M. R., Molloy., D. W., Mougias, A., Nasios., G., Papathanasopoulos, P, Ntoskou A., O’Caoimh., R. Comparison of the Greek Version of the Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment Screen and Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2020 Aug 10:acaa062. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acaa062. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32783063
Messinis L., Bakirtzis, C., Kosmidis, M.H., Economou, A., Anyfantis, E., Nasios, G., Ntoskou, A., Peristeri, E., Konitsiotis., S., Dardiotis, E., Grigoriadis, N., & Papathanasopoulos, P. (2020). Symbol Digit Modalities Test: Greek Normative data for the Oral and Written versions and discriminative validity in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 36 (2021) 117–125. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acaa028.
Messinis, L., Kosmidis, M.H., Nasios, G., Konitsiotis, S., Ntoskou A., Bakirtzis, C., Grigoriadis, N., Patrikelis P., Panagiotopoulos E., Gourzis, P., Malefaki, S., & Papathanasopoulos, P. (2020). Do Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis patients benefit from Computer- based cognitive neurorehabilitation? A randomized sham controlled trial. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders 2020 Jan 7;39:101932. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.101932
Messinis L., Kosmidis, M.H., Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., Taousides, T. Cognitive Neurorehabilitation in Acquired Neurological Brain Injury, 2019 Editorial, Behavioural Neurology, Article ID 8241951
Nasios, G, Dardiotis, E., Messinis, L. (2019). From Broca and Wernicke to the neuromodulation era: insights of brain language networks for neurorehabilitation. Behavioural Neurology, 9894571,https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9894571
Videnovic A & Messinis, L (2019). Enlightened PD – A Novel treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. Neurology,12, 92, 499 -500.
Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Kosmidis, M.H., Zampakis, P., Malefaki, S., Ntoskou Α., Nousia, A., Papathanasopoulos, P. (2017). Efficacy of a computer – assisted cognitive rehabilitation intervention in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients – a randomized controlled trial. Behavioural Neurology, ID 5919841.
Nasios, G., Messinis, L., Dardiotis, E., Papathanasopoulos, P. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cognition, and Multiple Sclerosis – An Overview (2018). Behavioural Neurology, ID 8584653.
Papathanasiou, A., Messinis, L., Zampakis, P., Papathanasopoulos, P. (2017). Corpus Callosum atrophy as a marker of clinically meaningful cognitive decline in Secondary Progressive multiple sclerosis. Impact on employment status. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 43, 170–175.
Boylan, L.S & Messinis L (2017). Orthostatic hypotension, cognition, and Parkinson disease: Dumbing down by standing up. Neurology, 88, 111 -112
Kambanaros, M., Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Nousia., A., Papathanasopoulos, P (2017). Verb-Noun dissociations in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: verb effects of semantic complexity and phonological relatedness. Aphasiology, 31, 1, 49 – 66
Papathanasiou, A., Messinis, L., Zampakis, P., Panagiotakis, G., Gourzis, P., Georgiou, V., Papathanasopoulos, P (2015). Thalamic atrophy predicts cognitive impairment in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis: Effect of instrumental activities of daily living and employment status. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 358, 236-242
Messinis, L & Papathanasopoulos, P (2015). Is there a higher risk of neuropsychological impairment in HIV – HCV coinfected patients? Neurology, 84, 1–2
Papathanasiou, A., Messinis, L., Georgiou, L.V., & P. Papathanasopoulos (2014). Cognitive impairment in relapsing remitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis patients: efficacy of a computerized cognitive screening battery. Behavioural Neurology, 2014; 151379. doi: 10.1155/2014/151379. eCollection 2014.
Christodoulou, T., Messinis, L., Papathanasopoulos P & Frangou, S (2012). The impact of familial risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder on cognitive control during episodic memory retrieval. Psychiatry Research, 197, 212-216
Christodoulou, T., Messinis, L., Papathanasopoulos P., & Frangou, S (2012). Dissociable and common deficits in inhibitory control in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 262, 2, 125-130
Kambanaros, M., Messinis, L., & Anyfantis, M (2012). Action and Object word writing in a case of Bilingual Aphasia. Behavioral Neurology, 25, 3, 215-222
Kambanaros, M., Messinis, L., Georgiou, V., & Papathanasopoulos, P. (2010). Action and Object Naming in Schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 10, 1083-1094
Paschali, A., Messinis, L., Kargiotis, O., Vassilakos., P., & Papathanasopoulos, P (2010) SPECT neuroimaging and Neuropsychological functions in different stages of Parkinson’s Disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 37, 1128-1140.
Lyros, E., Messinis, L., Dendias, G., Siavelis, C., Triantafyllou, A., & Papathanasopoulos, P (2010). Increased self-report of obsessive-compulsive behaviors among hemodialysis patients. The Primary Care Companion Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 12, 3, e1 –e6
Messinis, L., Vlahou CH., Tsapanos, V., Tsapanos, A., Spilioti, D., & Papathanasopoulos, P. (2010). Neuropsychological functioning in postpartum depressed versus non-depressed females and non-postpartum controls. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 6, 661-666