Alberto Oliverio (born December 1, 1938) is a

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

and psycho-biologist. He is currently professor of Psychobiology at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...

. He has been one of the main assistants of Nobel prize winner

Daniel Bovet Daniel Bovet (23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his ...

.Bovet, D., McGaugh, J. L., & Oliverio, A. (1966). Effects of post trial administration of drugs on avoidance learning of mice. Life Sciences, 5(14), 1309-1315.

Publications

Oliverio is author or co-author of about 400 publications. He is author of about 30 chapters or general reviews in edited books or annual reviews. Has edited 6 books on animal behavior and

behavioral genetics Behavioural genetics, also referred to as behaviour genetics, is a field of scientific research that uses genetic methods to investigate the nature and origins of individual differences in behaviour. While the name "behavioural genetics" c ...

and is the author of many books on memory, brain and behavior.

Research fields

Neurochemical – neurophysiological correlates of memory. Genetic approaches to behavior.

Books

*Oliverio A. & Oliverio Ferraris A., ''Lo sviluppo comparato del comportamento, Boringhieri'',

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, 1974. *Oliverio A. & Oliverio Ferraris A., ''Psicologia: Basi biologiche, sviluppo, ambiente, Zanichelli, Bologna'', 1976; 2nd Edition, 1980; 3rd Edition (''Psicologia: I motivi del comportamento umano''), 1986; 4th Edition, 1990; 5th edition 1996; 6th edition 2002; 7th edition 2007. *Oliverio A., (Ed.) ''Zoologia 1: Comunicazione e comportamento sociale. Letture da Le Scienze, Le Scienze'',

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, 1977. *Oliverio A., ''Maturità e vecchiaia, Feltrinelli'', Milan, 1977. *Oliverio A.. (Ed.) ''Genetics, Environment and Intelligence'', North Holland, Amsterdam, 1977. *Oliverio A. & Oliverio Ferraris A., ''Maschio/Femmina: Biologia, psicologia, sociologia nel comportamento sessuale, Zanichelli'',

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, 1978. *Oliverio A., ''La società solitaria'',

Editori Riuniti Editori Riuniti is an Italian publishing house based in Rome that publishes books and magazines on the history of socialism, socialist thought, physics and mathematics theory, and the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. History ...

, Rome, 1979. *Oliverio A. ''Come nasce un conformista'', Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1980. Portuguese Transl: ''Como nasce um conformista'', Moraes / Sódilivros, 1986 *Oliverio A. & Castellano C., ''I farmaci del cervello: Droghe e psicofarmaci''. Classeunica n. 206, ERI, Rome, 1980. *Oliverio A., (Ed.) ''Cervello e comportamento'', Newton Compton, Rome, 1981. *Oliverio A., ''Biologia e comportamento, Zanichelli'', Bologna, 1982 (2nd. Edition, 1987). *Oliverio A., (Ed.) "''Orologi biologici, Quaderni de Le Scienze''" n.9, ''Le Scienze'', Milan, 1982. *Oliverio A., ''Saper invecchiare, Libri di Base'', Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1982. *Oliverio A., ''I meccanismi dell'apprendimento, Frontiere della Scienza'', Fabbri Editori, Milan 1983. *Ferraris A. & Oliverio A., ''I ritmi della vita, Libri di base, Editori Riuniti'', Rome, 1983. *Oliverio A. & Oliverio A., ''L'alba del comportamento umano'', Laterza, Rome, 1983. *Oliverio A. &

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, (Ed.) ''The behavior of human Infants'', Plenum Press, New York, 1983. *Oliverio A., ''Le scienze: letture di chimica e biologia'', Laterza, Rome, 1984. *Oliverio A., ''La materia e i numeri'', Laterza, Rome, 1984. *Oliverio A., ''Lo spazio e il tempo'', Laterza, Rome, 1984. *Oliverio A., ''Storia naturale della mente: l'evoluzione del comportamento'', Boringhieri, Turin, 1984. *Oliverio A. & Oliverio A., ''La scienza e l'immaginario'', Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1986. *Oliverio A., ''Alfabeto della mente'', Edizioni Dedalo, Bari, 1986. *Oliverio A., ''L'evoluzione del cervello, Scienza e Dossier'' (Suppl.) n.8, November 1986. *Oliverio A., ''Dalle molecole al cervello, Scienza e Dossier'' (Suppl.) n. 15, Giugno 1987. *Oliverio A. & Oliverio A., ''"Nei labirinti della mente, Laterza, Rome, 1989. Spanish transl: En los laberintos de la mente, Grijalbo, Argentina Ponente, México, 1992"''. ''Economica Laterza'', Rome, 1998. *Oliverio A., ''Per puro caso'', Leonardo, Milano, 1989 (Edizione Euroclub, Milano, 1990). *Oliverio A., ''Il tempo ritrovato: la memoria e le neuroscienze, Theoria'', Rome, 1990. *Puglisi-Allegra S. & Oliverio A., (Eds.) "Psychobiology of Stress", NATO ASI Series, ''Behavioural and Social Sciences'' Vol. 54, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990. *Oliverio A., ''Neandertal'', Leonardo, Milan, 1993. *Ferraris A. e Oliverio A. ''La persona, la sessualità, l'amore''. Loescher, Turin1994. *Oliverio A. ''Ricordi individuali, memorie collettive'', Einaudi, Turin, 1994. *Oliverio A. ''Biologia e filosofia della mente'', Laterza, Rome, 1995. *Oliverio A. ''L'arte di pensare, Rizzoli'', Milan, 1997. BUR Saggi, Milan 1999. Japanese transl: 論理的思考の技術 Daiwa Shobo, Tokio, 2003. *Oliverio A. ''L'arte di ricordare'', Rizzoli, Milan, 1998. 6 editions. BUR Saggi, Milan 2000. Edizioni Mondolibri, 1999. BUR Saggi, Milan, 2000. Spanish transl: ''La memoria. El arte de recordar''. Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2000. Portuguese transl: ''A memória e os seus segredos''. Editorial Presença, Lisbona, 2001. Japanese transl: 覚える技術 Shoeisha, Tokio, 2002. *Oliverio A. ''L'arte di imparare''. Rizzoli, Milan, 1999 BUR Saggi, Milano 2001. Japanese transl: ''SogenSha'', Tokyo 2006. 東京創元社メタ認知的アプローチによる学ぶ技術 *Oliverio A. ''Esplorare la mente. Il cervello tra filosofia e biologia''. Raffaello Cortina, Milan, 1999. *Oliverio A. ''La mente. Istruzioni per l'uso''. Rizzoli, Milan, 2001. BUR Saggi, Milan 2004. *Oliverio A. ''Prima lezione di Neuroscienze''. Laterza, Rome, 2002. *Oliverio A. ''Dove ci porta la scienza''. Laterza, Rome, 2003. *Oliverio A. ''Memoria e oblio. Rubbettino, Soveria mannelli'', 2003. *Oliverio A. e Oliverio Ferraris A. ''Le età della mente'', Rizzoli, Milan, 2004. BUR Saggi, Milan 2005. *Oliverio A. ''Istruzioni per restare intelligenti''. Rizzoli, Milan, 2005. BUR Saggi, Milan 2006. MondoLibri, Milan, 2006. Albanian transl: ''Botimet Max'', Tirana 2006 ''Si ta ruajmë inteligjencën''. * Oliverio A. "Come nasce un’idea. Intelligenza, creatività, genio nell’era della distrazione". Rizzoli, Milano, 2006. Mondolibri, Milano, 2007. Korean Transl: "MINUMSA" 2008 Greek Transl: "Lector", 2009. Japanese transl: "SogenSha", Tokio *Oliverio A. "Geografia della mente. Territori cerebrali e comportamenti umani". Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2008. *Oliverio A. "La vita nascosta del cervello". Giunti, Firenze, 2009. *Oliverio A. "Cervello" Bollati Boringhieri 2012. Spanish transl: "Cerebro", "Adriana Hidalgo Editora", 2013. *Oliverio A. "Immaginazione e memoria" Mondadori Università 2013. *Oliverio Ferraris A. e Oliverio A. "Più forti delle avversità". "Bollati Boringhieri", 2014. *Oliverio A. "Il cervello che impara", "Giunti", Firenze 2017

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