Lucia Ricciardi is Senior Lecturer in Neurology at St. George’s University of London. She is consultant neurologist at St George’s University Hospital London, where she is part of the Advanced Movement Disorders Therapies Team and leads the holistic care clinic.

Dr Ricciardi’s research focuses on the biological, behavioral, and psychological experiences of non-motor symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.

Dr Ricciardi research evaluates  multi-modal biomarkers of neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease, including cortical, subcortical and autonomic data. She studies the role of interoception in generating and perpetuating neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with movement disorders.

Her overall goal is to improve the mind-body interaction in these groups of people and to design new interventions that empower individuals to improve their wellbeing.