Research Topics
| R CantelloSummaryCountry: Italy Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Hairy cell leukaemia complicated by anti-MAG paraproteinemic demyelinating neuropathy: resolution of neurological syndrome after cladribrine treatmentDavide Rossi
Division of Haematology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and IRCAD, Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
Leuk Res 31:873-6. 2007..Purine analogs may represent a choice in IgM PDN associated with lymphoproliferative disorders...- Cortical excitability in cryptogenic localization-related epilepsy: interictal transcranial magnetic stimulation studiesR Cantello
Neurology and Statistics Units, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 41:694-704. 2000..Changes in the balance between excitation and inhibition are the core phenomena in focal epileptogenesis. TMS can assess this balance in the primary motor cortex... - Excitability of the human epileptic cortex after chronic valproate: a reappraisalRoberto Cantello
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, Universita del Piemonte Orientale A Avogadro, Novara, Italy
Brain Res 1099:160-6. 2006..Then, VPA corrected a transmitter-mediated interneuronal hyper-excitability of the primary motor cortex. The former effect was best seen in partial, and the latter in generalized epilepsy patients... - Ketogenic diet: electrophysiological effects on the normal human cortexRoberto Cantello
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, A Avagadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 48:1756-63. 2007..KD is effective against refractory epilepsy, but its precise mechanism is obscure. At the transmitter level, an enhancement of GABA inhibition has often been proposed... - Cortical inhibition in Parkinson's disease: new insights from early, untreated patientsR Cantello
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, Universita del Piemonte Orientale A Avogadro, Via Solaroli 17, 28100 Novara, Italy
Neuroscience 150:64-71. 2007..The pathologic enhancement of late LICI can act as a candidate physiological hallmark of IPD, to be tested in various diagnostic or therapeutic circumstances... 
Paired-pulse flash-visual evoked potentials: new methods revive an old testRoberto Cantello
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, University of Piedmont East A Avogadro, Novara, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 122:1622-8. 2011..In the 1960s, methodological problems hindered this test, which was expected to provide important physiologic information...- Applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation in movement disordersRoberto Cantello
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurology, School of Medicine, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
J Clin Neurophysiol 19:272-93. 2002..There is reason to predict that TMS, with its continuous technical refinement, will prove even more helpful in the near future. Then, research achievements are reasonably expected to spill over into clinical practice... - Transcranial magnetic stimulation and Parkinson's diseaseRoberto Cantello
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurology, School of Medicine, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 38:309-27. 2002..Although some reports are favorable, others are not, and have raised the problem of appropriate control experiments. Although extremely interesting, the potential therapeutic role of r-TMS in PD needs further evaluation... - Diagnosis of psychogenic paralysis: the role of motor evoked potentialsR Cantello
Clinica Neurologica, Ospedale Maggiore, Novara, Italy
J Neurol 248:889-97. 2001..In the nineties, there has been evidence that motor evoked potential (MEP) studies might improve the diagnosis of psychogenic paralysis... - Effects of a photic input on the human cortico-motoneuron connectionR Cantello
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurology, Universita del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 111:1981-9. 2000..We wanted to assess the normal interaction, if any, between a prior photic input and the output of the cortico-motoneuron connection... - Slow repetitive TMS for drug-resistant epilepsy: clinical and EEG findings of a placebo-controlled trialRoberto Cantello
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 48:366-74. 2007..To assess the effectiveness of slow repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as an adjunctive treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy... 
Cortical excitability and sleep deprivation: a transcranial magnetic stimulation studyC Civardi
Clinica Neurologica, Ospedale Maggiore, Corso Mazzini 18, 28100 Novara, Italy
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 71:809-12. 2001..These changes might have a link with the background factors of the "activating" effects of sleep deprivation...- Cortical excitability in drug-naive patients with partial epilepsy: a cross-sectional studyC Varrasi
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurology, , Novara, Italy
Neurology 63:2051-5. 2004..Transcranial magnetic stimulation proved able to detect it. The weaker cortical inhibition had a direct relation to the severity of interictal epileptiform abnormalities... - Manic/hypomanic symptoms and quality of life measures in patients with epilepsyMarco Mula
The Neuropsychiatry Research Group and the Epilepsy Centre, Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, C so Mazzini, 18, 28100 Novara, Italy
Seizure 18:530-2. 2009..In this study, we sought to investigate their relationship with social and health-related QoL measures in patients with epilepsy... - Defective Fas-mediated T-cell apoptosis predicts acute onset CIDPCristoforo Comi
Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Autoimmune Diseases IRCAD, A Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
J Peripher Nerv Syst 14:101-6. 2009..These findings suggest that the evaluation of Fas function in acute onset polyneuropathy helps in early prediction of long-term outcome... - Interictal dysphoric disorder and periictal dysphoric symptoms in patients with epilepsyMarco Mula
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 51:1139-45. 2010..This study aimed at identifying clinical correlates of the IDD, with special attention to the relationship between symptoms and seizures... - Clinical correlates of schizotypy in patients with epilepsyMarco Mula
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara 28100, Italy
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 20:441-6. 2008..Schizotypal symptoms correlated with early onset of the seizures and a diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy, further confirming an association between psychoses and epilepsy... - Clinical and psychopathological definition of the interictal dysphoric disorder of epilepsyMarco Mula
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 49:650-6. 2008..We sought to investigate whether IDD occurs only in patients with epilepsy and to validate IDD features against DSM-IV criteria... - Obsessionality, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and temporal lobe epilepsyFrancesco Monaco
Neuropsychiatry Research Group and the Epilepsy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsy Behav 7:491-6. 2005.... - Fas-mediated T-cell apoptosis is impaired in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyCristoforo Comi
Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases IRCAD and Department of Medical Sciences, A Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Maggiore Hospital, Novara, Italy
J Peripher Nerv Syst 11:53-60. 2006..These data suggest that defective Fas function favours CIDP development and aggressive evolution... - Validation of the Italian version of the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E)M Mula
Division of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsy Behav 24:329-31. 2012..943 (CI95%=0.902-0.985; SE 0.021; p<0.001), a cut off score of 13, a sensitivity of 86.2%, a specificity of 89%, a positive predictive value of 71.4%, and a negative predictive value of 95.3%... - Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A Phase I clinical trialL Mazzini
Department of Neurology Eastern Piedmont University, Maggiore della Carita Hospital, 28100 Novara, Italy
Exp Neurol 223:229-37. 2010..In conclusion, this study confirms that MSC transplantation into the spinal cord of ALS patients is safe and that MSCs might have a clinical use for future ALS cell based clinical trials... - Clinical correlates of pathological gambling symptoms in patients with epilepsyAndrea E Cavanna
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsia 49:1460-4. 2008..Alterations in the mesolimbic reward system could represent the putative neuropathological substrate for this multifaceted clinical picture... - Applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation in sleep medicineCarlo Civardi
Department of Neurology, Universita del Piemonte Orientale A Avogadro, 28100 Novara, Italy
Sleep Med Rev 13:35-46. 2009..For each of these, we examine the applications of TMS separately... - Motor cortical organization in an adult with hemimegalencephaly and late onset epilepsyCarlo Civardi
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurology, Universita del Piemonte Orientale A Avogadro, Novara, Italy c
Neurosci Lett 460:126-9. 2009..TMS gave new information on the anatomic/functional features and epileptogenesis in this complex and physiologically obscure syndrome... - Intermittent photic stimulation affects motor cortex excitability in photosensitive idiopathic generalized epilepsyG Strigaro
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Neurology, University of Piedmont East A Avogadro, Novara, Italy
Epilepsy Res 104:78-83. 2013..e. 20Hz, on motor cortex excitability by means of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in photosensitive patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE)... - Measuring the level and content of consciousness during epileptic seizures: the Ictal Consciousness InventoryA E Cavanna
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsy Behav 13:184-8. 2008..The ICI is proposed as a user-friendly and clinically sound instrument for the measurement of ictal alterations of consciousness in patients with epilepsy... - Cortico-motoneurone excitability in patients with obstructive sleep apnoeaCarlo Civardi
Section of Neurology, Department of Medical Sciences, , Novara, Italy
J Sleep Res 13:159-63. 2004..All TMS changes were detected outside the pharyngeal district, suggesting a widespread dysfunction of the cortico-motoneuronal system in the OSAS, which is more evident during apnoeas... - On the prevalence of bipolar disorder in epilepsyMarco Mula
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy
Epilepsy Behav 13:658-61. 2008.... - Complex movement disorders in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: a case reportMiryam Carecchio
Department of Neurology, Amedeo Avogadro University, Corso Mazzini 18, 28100 Novara, Italy
J Neurol Sci 281:101-3. 2009..This case underlines the importance of taking into account APS as a cause of unusual movement disorders even in elderly patients without evidence of previous thrombotic events...