Gennaro Della Rocca

Biography:

Gennaro Della Rocca graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1991 and specialized in Neurology in 1996. After working as a medical consultant at the “Villa Camaldoli” Clinic in Naples, where he focused on cognitive rehabilitation, he has been serving since July 2020 at the “Antonio Cardarelli” Hospital (AORN) in Naples in the Neurology & Stroke Unit, primarily dealing with dementia. His professional experience has been centered on dementia and cognitive rehabilitation, and he has authored several scientific papers, including Conchiglia G., Della Rocca G., Grossi D. On a peculiar environmental dependency syndrome in a case with fronto-temporal damage: Zelig-like syndrome. Neurocase, 2007, 13(1):1–5; Abate F., Della Rocca G., et al. The “zig-zag” sign in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2020; 79:86–87; and Della Rocca G. Is the Inner Ear the Brain’s Metronome? A New Vestibular Function in a Theoretical Model. Journal of Psychiatry and Cognitive Behaviour, Gavin Publishers, 2025. In September 2024, he published the book Is Time Born from the Brain or Is It the Other Way Around? (Giammarino Publishers), the culmination of ten years of research on the subject.