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Filippos Vlachos is a Professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece, where he has taught and conducted research since 1997 and Director of Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders Laboratory. He has been elected twice as Head of the Department of Special Education, Director of the postgraduate program in Special Education, and had been member of the University of Thessaly Senate for six years. He is the author of the book Handedness: Myths and Reality (in Greek), editor of the book Brain, Learning & Special Education (in Greek) and co-editor in three more scientific editions. He has published more than 160 articles in referred national & international journals, book chapters and congress proceedings, with more than 1300 known citations. His research interests include the investigation of the neural mechanisms of reading, numerical cognition, attention and their attendant difficulties including learning difficulties and other developmental disorders as they relate to education, as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities.

Filippos Vlachos was born in Korinthos, Greece (1965). He holds one bachelor degree in Pedagogy (1984), and one in Biology (1988) from the University of Patras. In 1995 he obtained a post graduate diploma in School Psychology and Counselling (University of Patras), and in 1997 received his PhD degree from the University of Thessaly, Greece. Presently, he is a professor of Human Psychobiology at the Department of Special Education in the University of Thessaly, Greece, where he has taught and conducted research since 1997. His research interests concern, the psychobiological and neuropsychological approaches of learning difficulties and developmental disabilities, as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities. He is the author of the book Handedness: Myths and Reality (in Greek), editor of the book Brain, Learning & Special Education (in Greek) and co-editor in three more scientific editions. He has published more than 140 articles in referred national & international journals, book chapters and congress proceedings, with more than 1000 known citations. He is a member of 6 national & international scientific associations and he is acting as a reviewer for many international as well as for Greek peer review journals. He has also been involved for years in the pre-service and in-service training of teachers in the primary and secondary education. Today he is Director at the laboratory of the Learning, Language & Communication Disabilities in the University of Thessaly and Director at the postgraduate program “Education Sciences: Special Education”. He has been elected twice as Head of the Department of Special Education at the University of Thessaly and had been member of the University Senate for six years. Additionally, he has administrative experience as member for years in several University committees, scientific committees and organization committees of international and national congresses.

Research interests

The psychobiological and neuropsychological approaches of learning and developmental disabilities as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities.

SED courses

• Biological Bases of Development
• Psychophysiology
• Psychophysiology of Learning Disorders
• Physiology of Learning and Memory

Office Hours

• Monday    09:00-11:00
• Thursday  11:00-13:00

Selected Recent Publications

• Vlachos, F., Papadimitriou, A. & Bonoti, F. (2013). An investigation of age and gender differences in preschool children’s specific motor skills. European Psychomotricity Journal, 6, 12-21. https://www.psychomotor.gr/images/journal/Volume6/first_issue/4.VLACHOS_12_21.pdf
• Vlachos, F., Andreou, E., Delliou, A. & Agapitou, P. (2013). Dyslexia and hand preference in secondary school students. Psychology & Neuroscience, 6, 67-72. https://doi.org/10.3922/j.psns.2013.1.10
• Vlachos, F., Avramidis, E., Dedousis, G., Chalmpe, M. Ntalla, I., & Giannakopoulou, M. (2013). Prevalence and gender ratio of dyslexia in Greek adolescents and its association with parental history and brain injury. American Journal of Educational Research, 1, 22-25. https://doi.org/10.12691/education-1-1-5
• Vlachos, Andreou, E., Delliou, A. (2013). Brain hemisphericity and developmental dyslexia. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 1536-1540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.01.027
• Vlachos, F., Avramidis, E., Dedousis, G., Katsigianni, E., Ntalla, I., Giannakopoulou, M. & Chalmpe, M. (2013). Incidence and gender differences for handedness among Greek adolescents and its association with familial history and brain injury. Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 1, 6-10. https://doi.org/10.12691/education-1-1-5
• Vlachos, F., Gaillard, F., Vaitsis, K. & Karapetsas, A. (2013). Developmental risk: Evidence from large non right-handed samples. Child Development Research, 2013, Article ID 169509, 10 pages, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/169509
• Andreou, E. & Vlachos, F. (2013). Learning styles of typical readers and dyslexic adolescents. Journal of Visual Literacy, 32(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23796529.2013.11674707
• Andreou, E., Vlachos, F., Stavroussi, P. (2013). Multiple intelligences of typical readers and dyslexic adolescences. International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, 1, 61-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/23796529.2013.11674707
• Papadimitriou, A. & Vlachos, F. (2014). Which specific skills developing during preschool years predict the reading performance in the first and second grade of primary school? Early Child Development and Care, 184, 1706-1722. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2013.875542
• Andreou, G., Vlachos, F. & Makanikas, K. (2014). Effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnea on cognitive functions: Evidence for a common nature. Sleep Disorders, 2014, Article ID 768210, 18 pages, https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/768210
• Bonoti, F., Tzouvaleka, E., Bonotis, K., Vlachos, F. (2015). Do Patients with Alzheimer’s disease Draw like Young Children? An Exploratory Study. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, 43, 1285–1292. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-140528
• Vlachos, F., & Papadimitriou, A. (2015). Effect of age and gender on children’s reading performance: The possible neural underpinnings. Cogent Psychology, 2, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2015.1045224
• Stavrussi, P., Vlachos, F., & Pisina, A. (2016). An examination of language and nonverbal abilities in twins with Apert syndrome. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 15 (1), 63-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdhd-2014-0027
• Vlachos, F., Argiropoulos, V., & Papadimitriou, V. (2017). Effects of handedness and blindness on braille reading accuracy. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 1, 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-017-0020-x
• Papadatou-Pastou, M., Haliou, E., Vlachos, F. (2017). Brain knowledge and the prevalence of neuromyths among prospective teachers in Greece. Frontiers in Psychology, section Educational Psychology. 8:804. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00804
• Zygouris, N., Vlachos, F., Dadaliaris, A., Oikonomou, P., Stamoulis, G., Vavougios, D., Nerantzaki, E., & Striftou, A. (2017). A neuropsychological approach of developmental dyscalculia and a screening test via a web application. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 4, 51-65. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v7i4.7434
• Segkouli, S., Paliokas, I., Tzovaras, D., Lazarou, I., Karagiannidis, C., Vlachos, F. & Tsolaki, M. (2017). A computerized test for the assessment of mild cognitive impairment subtypes in sentence processing. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition: A Journal on Normal and Dysfunctional Development. 25(6), 829-851. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2017.1377679
• Vlachos, F. & Bonoti, F. (2018). Laterality and cognition: Handedness as a factor differentiating cognitive abilities. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health (Supplement), 1, 21-22. https://doi.org/10.26386/obrela.v1i0.31
• Andreou, G., & Makanikas, K., Vlachos, F. (2019). Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Semantic language abilities. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 9(3), 130-143. https://doi.org/10.4236/jbbs.2019.93011
• Vlachos, F. & Avramidis, E. (2020). The difference between developmental dyslexia and dysgraphia: Recent neurobiological evidence. International Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science, 8(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.13189/ijnbs.2020.080101
• Kosmatos, G., Nisiotou, I., Stavroussi, I., Vlachos, F. (2021). Hand Preference in Three Genetic Syndromes Associated with Intellectual Disability. International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, 9(9), 43-50. https://doi.org/10.37745/ijeld.2013
• Papadopoulou, A-K., Vlachos, F., Papadatou- Pastou., M. (2022). Cerebral lateralization of written language in children at risk for dyslexia and the effects of a phonological intervention. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, 5(2), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.26386/obrela.v5i2.228
• Zygouris, N., Vlachos, F., Stamoulis, G. (2022). ERPs in children and adolescents with Generalized Anxiety Disorder before and after an intervention program. Brain Sciences, 12(9), 1174. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12091174
• Lagoudakis, N., Vlachos, F., Christidou, V., Vavougios, D. (2022). Τhe effectiveness of a teaching approach using Brain Based Learning elements on students’ performance in a Biology course. Cogent Education. 9:1, https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2022.2158672
• Andreou, G., Aslanoglou, V., Lymperopoulou, V., & Vlachos, F. (2023). Morphological and phonological errors in the written language production of children with DLD. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2023.2207055
• Lagoudakis, N., Vlachos, F., Christidou, V., Vavougios, D., & Batsila, M. (2023). The role of hemispheric preference in student misconceptions in biology. European Journal of Educational Research, 12(2), 739-747. https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.12.2.739
• Papadopoulou, A.-K., Samsouris, C., Vlachos, F., Badcock, N., Phylactou, P., Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2023). Exploring cerebral laterality of writing and the relationship to handedness: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound investigation. Laterality http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2284407.