C Babiloni

Summary

Affiliation: University of Rome La Sapienza
Country: Italy

Publications

  1. ncbi Human cortical EEG rhythms during long-term episodic memory task. A high-resolution EEG study of the HERA model
    Claudio Babiloni
    , Italy
    Neuroimage 21:1576-84. 2004
  2. ncbi Cortical sources of EEG rhythms are abnormal in down syndrome
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:1205-12. 2010
  3. ncbi White matter vascular lesions are related to parietal-to-frontal coupling of EEG rhythms in mild cognitive impairment
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 29:1355-67. 2008
  4. ncbi Resting EEG sources correlate with attentional span in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 25:3742-57. 2007
  5. ncbi Directionality of EEG synchronization in Alzheimer's disease subjects
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neurobiol Aging 30:93-102. 2009
  6. ncbi Human cortical responses during one-bit delayed-response tasks: an fMRI study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 65:383-90. 2005
  7. ncbi Mapping distributed sources of cortical rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease. A multicentric EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 22:57-67. 2004
  8. ncbi Sources of cortical rhythms change as a function of cognitive impairment in pathological aging: a multicenter study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Univ La Sapienza Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 117:252-68. 2006
  9. ncbi Apolipoprotein E and alpha brain rhythms in mild cognitive impairment: a multicentric electroencephalogram study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Ann Neurol 59:323-34. 2006
  10. ncbi Cortical sources of visual evoked potentials during consciousness of executive processes
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:998-1013. 2009

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  1. ncbi Human cortical EEG rhythms during long-term episodic memory task. A high-resolution EEG study of the HERA model
    Claudio Babiloni
    , Italy
    Neuroimage 21:1576-84. 2004
    ..The strict relation between gamma response and perception suggests that retrieval processes of long-term memory deeply impinged upon sensory representation of the stored material...
  2. ncbi Cortical sources of EEG rhythms are abnormal in down syndrome
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:1205-12. 2010
    ....
  3. ncbi White matter vascular lesions are related to parietal-to-frontal coupling of EEG rhythms in mild cognitive impairment
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 29:1355-67. 2008
    ..7). These results are interpreted as supporting the additive model according to which MCI state would result from the combination of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative lesions...
  4. ncbi Resting EEG sources correlate with attentional span in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 25:3742-57. 2007
    ..05). These results suggest that cortical sources of resting delta and alpha rhythms correlate with neuropsychological measures of immediate memory based on focused attention in the continuum of MCI and AD subjects...
  5. ncbi Directionality of EEG synchronization in Alzheimer's disease subjects
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neurobiol Aging 30:93-102. 2009
    ..These results suggest that directionality of parieto-to-frontal EEG synchronization is abnormal not only in AD but also in amnesic MCI...
  6. ncbi Human cortical responses during one-bit delayed-response tasks: an fMRI study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 65:383-90. 2005
    ..Therefore, it may be used for future cognitive neuroimaging studies on aging...
  7. ncbi Mapping distributed sources of cortical rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease. A multicentric EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 22:57-67. 2004
    ..Future studies should evaluate the clinical usefulness of this approach in early differential diagnosis, disease staging, and therapy monitoring...
  8. ncbi Sources of cortical rhythms change as a function of cognitive impairment in pathological aging: a multicenter study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Univ La Sapienza Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 117:252-68. 2006
    ..change across normal elderly (Nold), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects as a function of the global cognitive level...
  9. ncbi Apolipoprotein E and alpha brain rhythms in mild cognitive impairment: a multicentric electroencephalogram study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Ann Neurol 59:323-34. 2006
    ..The present multicentric EEG study tested the hypothesis that presence of epsilon4 affects sources of resting EEG rhythms in both MCI and AD subjects...
  10. ncbi Cortical sources of visual evoked potentials during consciousness of executive processes
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:998-1013. 2009
    ....
  11. ncbi Genotype (cystatin C) and EEG phenotype in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment: a multicentric study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Univ La Sapienza Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 29:948-64. 2006
    ..e., cortical delta and alpha rhythmicity) in MCI and AD subjects, prompting future genotype-EEG phenotype studies for the early prediction of AD conversion in individual MCI subjects...
  12. ncbi Human cortical rhythms during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks. A high-resolution EEG study on normal aging
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Behav Brain Res 153:261-71. 2004
    ..These effects might worsen behavioral performances to the simple cognitive tasks with age. The present protocol is promising for the neuroimaging study of pathological aging...
  13. ncbi Functional frontoparietal connectivity during short-term memory as revealed by high-resolution EEG coherence analysis
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 118:687-97. 2004
    ..In conclusion, frontoparietal connectivity would optimize "representational" memory during STM. In this context, the frontal areas would increase their influence on parietal areas for memory retention...
  14. ncbi Cortical networks generating movement-related EEG rhythms in Alzheimer's disease: an EEG coherence study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 118:698-706. 2004
    ..These findings support the hypothesis of an impaired mechanism of sensorimotor cortical coupling (disconnection) in mild AD...
  15. ncbi Free copper and resting temporal EEG rhythms correlate across healthy, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease subjects
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Univ La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 118:1244-60. 2007
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  16. ncbi Fronto-parietal coupling of brain rhythms in mild cognitive impairment: a multicentric EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 69:63-73. 2006
    ..Future longitudinal research should evaluate whether the present EEG approach is able to predict the cognitive decline in individual MCI subjects...
  17. ncbi Alpha rhythms in mild dements during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks: a MEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 65:457-70. 2005
    ..Such difficulty may induce the abnormal amount of the related cortical activation in dementia as revealed by the alpha ERD...
  18. ncbi Functional coupling between anterior prefrontal cortex (BA10) and hand muscle contraction during intentional and imitative motor acts
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 39:1314-23. 2008
    ..The present results suggest that anterior prefrontal cortex (BA10) might control subjects' behavior by means of functional cortico-muscular coupling at selective frequency bands (theta and wide gamma rhythms)...
  19. ncbi Expectancy of pain is influenced by motor preparation: a high-resolution EEG study of cortical alpha rhythms
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 119:503-11. 2005
    ..These findings suggest that concomitant painful stimuli and simple sensorimotor go/no-go demands affect anticipatory activity as revealed by alpha ERD...
  20. ncbi Contingent negative variation in the parasylvian cortex increases during expectancy of painful sensorimotor events: a magnetoencephalographic study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 119:491-502. 2005
    ..These results suggest that anticipation of painful sensorimotor interactions engages the human PC, especially in the hemisphere ipsilateral to upcoming painful stimuli and contralateral to preparatory motor commands...
  21. ncbi Visuo-spatial consciousness and parieto-occipital areas: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Cereb Cortex 16:37-46. 2006
    ..Source strength was significantly stronger in 'seen' than 'not seen' cases at approximately +300 ms post-stimulus. These results may unveil features of parieto-occipital activation accompanying visuo-spatial consciousness...
  22. ncbi Slow cortical potential shifts preceding sensorimotor interactions
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 65:309-16. 2005
    ..These results suggest that the anticipatory processes for sensorimotor interactions increase the synchronization of cortical neurons in the frontocentral midline, possibly due to mechanisms sub-serving top-down attentional processes...
  23. ncbi Homocysteine and electroencephalographic rhythms in Alzheimer disease: a multicentric study
    C Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroscience 145:942-54. 2007
    ....
  24. ncbi Functional frontoparietal connectivity during encoding and retrieval processes follows HERA model. A high-resolution study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 68:203-12. 2006
    ..In conclusion, the present encoding-retrieval conditions induced maximal fronto-parietal gamma coupling with bidirectional information flow in the hemisphere-condition combination predicted by the HERA model...
  25. ncbi Synchronization of gamma oscillations increases functional connectivity of human hippocampus and inferior-middle temporal cortex during repetitive visuomotor events
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 19:3088-98. 2004
    ..These results suggest that recency processes do modulate the magnitude and functional coupling of brain rhythmicity (especially gamma) in the human temporal cortex...
  26. ncbi Frontal white matter volume and delta EEG sources negatively correlate in awake subjects with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 117:1113-29. 2006
    ..Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 24(3):481-487]. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that such a relationship does exist not only in AD patients but also across the continuum of subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD...
  27. ncbi Human brain oscillatory activity phase-locked to painful electrical stimulations: a multi-channel EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 15:112-23. 2002
    ..This enriches the actual debate on the mapping of event-related oscillatory activity of human brain...
  28. ncbi Mapping of early and late human somatosensory evoked brain potentials to phasic galvanic painful stimulation
    C Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 12:168-79. 2001
    ..The role of attentive, affective, and motor aspects in the modulation of the reported SEP components merits investigation in future experiments...
  29. ncbi Different modalities of painful somatosensory stimulations affect anticipatory cortical processes: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 71:475-84. 2007
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  30. ncbi Anticipation of somatosensory and motor events increases centro-parietal functional coupling: an EEG coherence study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 117:1000-8. 2006
    ..Does functional coupling of centro-parietal EEG rhythms selectively increase during the anticipation of sensorimotor events composed by somatosensory stimulation and visuomotor task?..
  31. ncbi Pre- and poststimulus alpha rhythms are related to conscious visual perception: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Cereb Cortex 16:1690-700. 2006
    ..The present results suggest that visuospatial consciousness covary--presumably with a facilitatory effect--with the power of both pre- and poststimulus alpha rhythms...
  32. ncbi Human ventral parietal cortex plays a functional role on visuospatial attention and primary consciousness. A repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Cereb Cortex 17:1486-92. 2007
    ..Furthermore, these high-level cognitive functions, as modulated by parietal rTMS, do not seem to share either linear or simple relationships...
  33. ncbi Human cortical responses during one-bit short-term memory. A high-resolution EEG study on delayed choice reaction time tasks
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 115:161-70. 2004
    ..We investigated whether a very simple short-term memory (STM) demand induces a visible change of EEG rhythms over the two hemispheres...
  34. ncbi Transient human cortical responses during the observation of simple finger movements: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 20:148-57. 2003
    ....
  35. ncbi Donepezil effects on sources of cortical rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease: Responders vs. Non-Responders
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Univ La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 31:1650-65. 2006
    ..Donepezil could act by reactivating existing yet functionally silent cortical synapses in Responders, restoring temporal and occipital alpha rhythms...
  36. ncbi Estimation of the cortical functional connectivity with the multimodal integration of high-resolution EEG and fMRI data by directed transfer function
    F Babiloni
    Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 24:118-31. 2005
    ..This cortical region involvement resembles that revealed in previous studies where visually triggered finger movements were analyzed with the use of separate EEG or fMRI measurements...
  37. ncbi Solving the neuroimaging puzzle: the multimodal integration of neuroelectromagnetic and functional magnetic resonance recordings
    F Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Suppl Clin Neurophysiol 57:450-7. 2004
    ..As an example, these methods were applied to EEG (128 electrodes) and fMRI data, which were recorded in separate sessions while normal subjects executed voluntary right one-digit movements...
  38. ncbi Cortical alpha rhythms are related to the anticipation of sensorimotor interaction between painful stimuli and movements: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    J Pain 9:902-11. 2008
    ..These results motivate further investigation for testing the hypothesis that chronic pain patients might exaggerate the anticipatory activation of sensorimotor cortex to negligible pain stimuli...
  39. ncbi Linear inverse source estimate of combined EEG and MEG data related to voluntary movements
    F Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 14:197-209. 2001
    ..In conclusion, the linear inverse source estimate of combined MEG and EEG data improves the estimate of movement-related cortical activity...
  40. ncbi Assessing cortical functional connectivity by linear inverse estimation and directed transfer function: simulations and application to real data
    L Astolfi
    IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 116:920-32. 2005
    ..To test a technique called Directed Transfer Function (DTF) for the estimation of human cortical connectivity, by means of simulation study and human study, using high resolution EEG recordings related to finger movements...
  41. ncbi Coupling between "hand" primary sensorimotor cortex and lower limb muscles after ulnar nerve surgical transfer in paraplegia
    C Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 118:214-22. 2004
    ..Cortico-muscular and cortico-cortical coupling was estimated by electroencephalographic-electromyographic coherence and directed transfer function of a multivariate autoregressive model...
  42. ncbi Cortical source estimate of combined high resolution EEG and fMRI data related to voluntary movements
    F Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
    Methods Inf Med 41:443-50. 2002
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  43. ncbi Inhibitory effect of voluntary movement preparation on cutaneous heat pain and laser-evoked potentials
    D Le Pera
    Department of Motor Rehabilitation, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, via della Pisana 235, Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 25:1900-7. 2007
    ..Our results represent the first neurophysiological suggestion that physiological activation of the motor cortex, occurring during movement preparation, inhibits cortical pain processing by a centrifugal mechanism...
  44. ncbi Computerized processing of EEG-EOG-EMG artifacts for multi-centric studies in EEG oscillations and event-related potentials
    D V Moretti
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazza le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Int J Psychophysiol 47:199-216. 2003
    ..e. ordinary least squares). These results suggest that such a software package could be used for multi-centric EEG studies...
  45. ncbi Multimodal integration of high-resolution EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging data: a simulation study
    F Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università di Rome La Sapienza, Italy
    Neuroimage 19:1-15. 2003
    ..When the ROIs analyzed do not present fMRI hot spots, both standard (i.e., minimum norm) and fMRI-based inverse operators returned statistically equivalent correlation and relative error values...
  46. ncbi The I.F.A.S.T. model allows the prediction of conversion to Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment with high degree of accuracy
    M Buscema
    Semeion Research Centre of Sciences of Communication, Rome, Italy
    Curr Alzheimer Res 7:173-87. 2010
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  47. ncbi EEG deblurring techniques in a clinical context
    F Cincotti
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, , P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
    Methods Inf Med 43:114-7. 2004
    ..These results represent a reciprocal cross-validation of the two mathematically independent techniques in a clinical environment...
  48. ncbi Bilateral neuromagnetic activation of human primary sensorimotor cortex in preparation and execution of unilateral voluntary finger movements
    C Babiloni
    Istituto di Fisiologia umana 2 Cattedra di Biofisica, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
    Brain Res 827:234-6. 1999
    ..However, the subtraction of the magnetic field generated by this source from the recorded magnetic field disclosed a low-amplitude ipsilateral central-parietal MEF1 that was explained by an ipsilateral M1-S1 source...
  49. ncbi Anticipatory electroencephalography alpha rhythm predicts subjective perception of pain intensity
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    J Pain 7:709-17. 2006
    ..This motivates further investigation on possible implications for the understanding of central chronic pain. Chronic pain patients might exaggerate the anticipatory activation of sensorimotor cortex to negligible pain stimuli...
  50. ncbi Sensorimotor interaction between somatosensory painful stimuli and motor sequences affects both anticipatory alpha rhythms and behavior as a function of the event side
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 81:398-405. 2010
    ..These findings suggest that anticipatory alpha rhythms may underlie cortical preparatory sensorimotor processes preceding somatosensory painful and the initiation of sequential motor events occurring at unilateral or bilateral hand...
  51. ncbi Attentional cortical responses to enlarged faces are related to body fat in normal weight subjects: an electroencephalographic study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Pinto 7, Foggia I 71100, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 120:922-31. 2009
    ....
  52. ncbi Ibuprofen treatment modifies cortical sources of EEG rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Pinto 7, Foggia I 71100, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 120:709-18. 2009
    ..Here we evaluated the hypothesis that long-term ibuprofen treatment affects cortical sources of resting electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms in mild AD patients...
  53. ncbi An observational study on the influence of the APOE-epsilon4 allele on the correlation between 'free' copper toxicosis and EEG activity in Alzheimer disease
    Filippo Zappasodi
    Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione CNR, Rome, Italy
    Brain Res 1215:183-9. 2008
    ....
  54. ncbi Comparison between SI and SII responses as a function of stimulus intensity
    Kathya Torquati
    Institute of Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti, via dei Vestini 33-66013, Chieti, Italy
    Neuroreport 13:813-9. 2002
    ..These results suggest different responses of SI and SII cortices as the intensity of stimulation rises from non-painful to painful values...
  55. ncbi Pre-stimulus alpha power affects vertex N2-P2 potentials evoked by noxious stimuli
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 75:581-90. 2008
    ..That "noise" could explain the trial-by-trial variability of laser evoked potentials and perception...
  56. ncbi Cortical sensorimotor interactions during the expectancy of a go/no-go task: effects of painful stimuli
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 118:925-35. 2004
    ....
  57. ncbi Alpha event-related desynchronization preceding a go/no-go task: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Neuropsychology 18:719-28. 2004
    ..This reflects an adaptive, energy-consuming strategy rather than an economic waiting for the go stimulus...
  58. ncbi Human cortical electroencephalography (EEG) rhythms during the observation of simple aimless movements: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, , P.le A. Moro, 5 I-00185 Rome, Italy
    Neuroimage 17:559-72. 2002
    ..Finally, the pattern of hemispherical cortical rhythmicity did not support a "simple concentration" of movement observation functions in the left or right hemisphere...
  59. ncbi Human alpha rhythms during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks: a magnetoencephalography study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 24:184-92. 2005
    ..05) later in STM compared to control condition. In conclusion, whole-head MEG technology and very simple STM demands revealed significant changes of human neuromagnetic alpha rhythms in normal young adults...
  60. ncbi Attentional processes and cognitive performance during expectancy of painful galvanic stimulations: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
    Behav Brain Res 152:137-47. 2004
    ..This happens even if the brain increases preparatory processes of the specific sensory channel to be targeted by the painful stimulus...
  61. ncbi White-matter lesions along the cholinergic tracts are related to cortical sources of EEG rhythms in amnesic mild cognitive impairment
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:1431-43. 2009
    ..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that damage to the cholinergic system is associated with alterations of EEG sources in aMCI subjects...
  62. ncbi A high resolution EEG method based on the correction of the surface Laplacian estimate for the subject's variable scalp thickness
    F Babiloni
    Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
    Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 103:486-92. 1997
    ..6 +/- 1.3 mm) and frontal (4.8 +/- 1.1 mm) areas. Compared to the SL estimate at constant scalp thickness, the improved SL estimate enhanced the spatial detail of both movement-related and somatosensory-evoked potentials...
  63. ncbi Movement-related desynchronization of alpha rhythms is lower in athletes than non-athletes: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Del Percio
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Universita Sapienza, Roma, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:482-91. 2010
    ....
  64. ncbi Gamma synchronization in human primary somatosensory cortex as revealed by somatosensory evoked neuromagnetic fields
    Franca Tecchio
    ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
    Brain Res 986:63-70. 2003
    ..In this framework, the neural synchronization at gamma band may characterize the cortical representation of thumb, functionally prevalent with respect to little finger in humans...
  65. ncbi White-matter vascular lesions correlate with alpha EEG sources in mild cognitive impairment
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy Casa di Cura San Raffaele Cassino, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
    Neuropsychologia 46:1707-20. 2008
    ..The present results are in line with the additive model of cognitive impairment postulating that this arises as the sum of neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular lesions...
  66. ncbi Prefrontal and parietal cortex in human episodic memory: an interference study by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
    Simone Rossi
    Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100, Siena, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 23:793-800. 2006
    ....
  67. ncbi Human secondary somatosensory cortex is involved in the processing of somatosensory rare stimuli: an fMRI study
    Tzu Ling Chen
    Department of Clinical Sciences and Bio imaging, University of Chieti, Italy
    Neuroimage 40:1765-71. 2008
    ..These results corroborate the notion that SII is the target of independent pathways for the processing and integration of nonpainful and painful somatosensory stimuli salient for further high-order elaborations...
  68. ncbi Cortical brain responses during passive nonpainful median nerve stimulation at low frequencies (0.5-4 Hz): an fMRI study
    Antonio Ferretti
    ITAB Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Foundation Università Gabriele D Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 28:645-53. 2007
    ..The fact that nonpainful median-nerve electrical stimuli at 4 Hz induces a larger BOLD response is of interest both for basic research and clinical applications in subjects unable to perform cognitive tasks in the fMRI scanner...
  69. ncbi Functional coupling of parietal α rhythms is enhanced in athletes before visuomotor performance: a coherence electroencephalographic study
    C Del Percio
    IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
    Neuroscience 175:198-211. 2011
    ....
  70. ncbi Decrease of functional coupling between left and right auditory cortices during dichotic listening: an electroencephalography study
    A Brancucci
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Neuroscience 136:323-32. 2005
    ..These results suggest a decrease of functional coupling between bilateral auditory cortices during competing dichotic stimuli as a possible neural substrate for the lateralization of auditory stimuli during dichotic listening...
  71. ncbi Hippocampal, amygdala, and neocortical synchronization of theta rhythms is related to an immediate recall during rey auditory verbal learning test
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:2077-89. 2009
    ....
  72. ncbi Frontal attentional responses to food size are abnormal in obese subjects: an electroencephalographic study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, Bioagromed, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 120:1441-8. 2009
    ..Are obese subjects characterized by a reduction of attentional cortical responses to the enlargement of food or body images?..
  73. ncbi Is it possible to automatically distinguish resting EEG data of normal elderly vs. mild cognitive impairment subjects with high degree of accuracy?
    Paolo M Rossini
    Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca, S Giovanni Calibita Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 119:1534-45. 2008
    ....
  74. ncbi Activity of hippocampal, amygdala, and neocortex during the Rey auditory verbal learning test: an event-related potential study in epileptic patients
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy Department of Imaging, San Raffaele Cassino, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:1351-7. 2010
    ..2009). Here we re-analyzed those electroencephalographic (EEG) data to test whether a parallel increase in amplitude of late positive event-related potentials takes place...
  75. ncbi Abnormal fronto-parietal coupling of brain rhythms in mild Alzheimer's disease: a multicentric EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dip Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, University La Sapienza Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 19:2583-90. 2004
    ..These results suggest that mild AD is characterized by an abnormal fronto-parietal coupling of the dominant human cortical rhythm at 8-10.5 Hz...
  76. ncbi Individual analysis of EEG frequency and band power in mild Alzheimer's disease
    Davide V Moretti
    Dipartimento Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, , P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 115:299-308. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Individual analysis of the alpha frequency and power can discriminate mild AD from VaD and normal elderly subjects. SIGNIFICANCE: This analysis may probe pathophysiological mechanisms causing AD and VaD...
  77. ncbi Human neural systems for conceptual knowledge of proper object use: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
    Sjoerd J H Ebisch
    Department of Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging, G D Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy
    Cereb Cortex 17:2744-51. 2007
    ..These results outline the neural processes underlying conceptual knowledge for proper object use. The left ventral inferior frontal gyrus might facilitate behavioral decisions regarding functional/pragmatical object properties...
  78. ncbi Classification of EEG mental patterns by using two scalp electrodes and Mahalanobis distance-based classifiers
    F Cincotti
    IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
    Methods Inf Med 41:337-41. 2002
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Such a result is interesting for the use of Mahalanobis-based classifiers in the brain computer interface area...
  79. ncbi District-related frequency specificity in hand cortical representation: dynamics of regional activation and intra-regional synchronization
    Franca Tecchio
    Dip Fisica ed SMC INFM, Univ La Sapienza, Centro Fermi Rome, Italy
    Brain Res 1014:80-6. 2004
    ....
  80. ncbi Judgment of actions in experts: a high-resolution EEG study in elite athletes
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Neuroimage 45:512-21. 2009
    ..These results globally suggest that the judgment of observed sporting actions is related to low amplitude of alpha ERD, as a possible index of spatially selective cortical activation ("neural efficiency")...
  81. ncbi Inter-hemispheric functional coupling of eyes-closed resting EEG rhythms in adolescents with Down syndrome
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 120:1619-27. 2009
    ..We tested the hypothesis that inter-hemispheric directional functional coupling of eyes-closed resting EEG rhythms is abnormal in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS)...
  82. ncbi Golf putt outcomes are predicted by sensorimotor cerebral EEG rhythms
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartmento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Piazzale A Moro 5, Rome, Italy
    J Physiol 586:131-9. 2008
    ..e. distance from the hole). These results indicate that high-frequency alpha rhythms over associative, premotor and non-dominant primary sensorimotor areas subserve motor control and are predictive of the golfer's performance...
  83. ncbi Hemispherical asymmetry in human SMA during voluntary simple unilateral movements. An fMRI study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, , Italy
    Cortex 39:293-305. 2003
    ..left (ipsilateral) movements. It was concluded that, in right-handed subjects, left SMA plays a prevailing role in the control of voluntary movements...
  84. ncbi Resting state eyes-closed cortical rhythms in patients with locked-in-syndrome: an EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Italy Department of Imaging, San Raffaele Cassino, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:1816-24. 2010
    ..Patients typically are fully conscious. Here we tested the hypothesis that electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms are abnormal in LIS patients, possibly due to an impaired neural synchronization between brainstem and cerebral cortex...
  85. ncbi Hippocampal volume and cortical sources of EEG alpha rhythms in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Neuroimage 44:123-35. 2009
    ..The present results suggest that progressive atrophy of hippocampus correlates with decreased cortical alpha power, as estimated by using LORETA source modeling, in the continuum along MCI and AD conditions...
  86. ncbi "Neural efficiency" of experts' brain during judgment of actions: a high-resolution EEG study in elite and amateur karate athletes
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Behav Brain Res 207:466-75. 2010
    ..In conclusion, athletes' judgment of observed sporting actions is related to less pronounced alpha ERD, as a possible index of "neural efficiency" in experts engaged in social cognition...
  87. ncbi Resting state cortical rhythms in athletes: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 81:149-56. 2010
    ..These results supported the hypothesis that cortical neural synchronization at the basis of eyes-closed resting state EEG rhythms is enhanced in elite athletes than in control subjects...
  88. ncbi Functional topography of the secondary somatosensory cortex for nonpainful and painful stimulation of median and tibial nerve: an fMRI study
    Antonio Ferretti
    Department of Clinical Sciences and Bio imaging, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
    Neuroimage 23:1217-25. 2004
    ..Furthermore, they suggest that noxious information is not somatotopically represented in human bilateral SII, at least as inferred from fMRI data at 1.5 T...
  89. ncbi Cortical sources of awake scalp EEG in eating disorders
    Guido Rodriguez
    Section of Clinical Neurophysiology DISEM, Department of Endocrinological and Metabolic Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 118:1213-22. 2007
    ..To investigate quantitative EEG (qEEG) in anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) in comparison with healthy controls...
  90. ncbi Age-related functional changes of prefrontal cortex in long-term memory: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Simone Rossi
    Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, I 53100 Siena, Italy
    J Neurosci 24:7939-44. 2004
    ..Findings confirm that the neural correlates of retrieval modify along aging, suggesting that the bilateral engagement of the DLPFC has a compensatory role on the elders' episodic memory performance...
  91. ncbi High-resolution electro-encephalogram: source estimates of Laplacian-transformed somatosensory-evoked potentials using a realistic subject head model constructed from magnetic resonance images
    F Babiloni
    Institute of Human Physiology, University of Rome, Italy
    Med Biol Eng Comput 38:512-9. 2000
    ..The proposed high-resolution EEG technique is useful for the study of somatosensory functions in basic research and clinical applications...
  92. ncbi Integration of high resolution EEG and functional magnetic resonance in the study of human movement-related potentials
    F Babiloni
    Department of Human Physiology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy corrected
    Methods Inf Med 39:179-82. 2000
    ..With respect to standard linear inverse source estimates, fMR-constrained ones presented increased spatial detail and provided a more reliable timing of activation in bilateral sensorimotor cortical regions of interest...
  93. ncbi Mobile phone emission modulates inter-hemispheric functional coupling of EEG alpha rhythms in elderly compared to young subjects
    Fabrizio Vecchio
    AFaR, Department of Neuroscience, Hosp Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
    Clin Neurophysiol 121:163-71. 2010
    ..2007]. Here we tested the hypothesis that this effect can vary on physiological aging as a sign of changes in the functional organization of cortical neural synchronization...
  94. ncbi Directional information flows between brain hemispheres across waking, non-REM and REM sleep states: an EEG study
    Mario Bertini
    Dipartimento di Psicologia Sapienza Università di Roma, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Roma, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 78:270-5. 2009
    ..They also reinforce the suggestive hypothesis of a relationship between inter-hemispheric directionality of EEG functional coupling and frequency of the EEG rhythms...
  95. ncbi Anticipatory cortical responses during the expectancy of a predictable painful stimulation. A high-resolution electroencephalography study
    Claudio Babiloni
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Sezione di EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 18:1692-700. 2003
    ..The present results also suggest that negative event-related potentials are modest preceding warned stimuli (even if painful) with a simple information content...
  96. ncbi Functional cortico-muscular coupling during upright standing in athletes and nonathletes: a coherence electroencephalographic-electromyographic study
    Fabrizio Vecchio
    Department of Neuroscience, Fatebenfratelli Hospital, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
    Behav Neurosci 122:917-27. 2008
    ..In elite athletes, this might be due to a long training for the control of equilibrium based on proprioceptive and tactile inputs...
  97. ncbi Antero-posterior functional coupling at sleep onset: changes as a function of increased sleep pressure
    Luigi De Gennaro
    Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Brain Res Bull 65:133-40. 2005
    ..These findings support the notion that a spread of synchronizing signals from associative prefrontal to posterior areas play a role in the wake-sleep transition...
  98. ncbi Neuromagnetic functional coupling during dichotic listening of speech sounds
    Alfredo Brancucci
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Universita G D Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
    Hum Brain Mapp 29:253-64. 2008
    ..These results suggest that functional coupling of alpha rhythms can constitute a neural substrate for the lateralization of auditory stimuli during DL...
  99. ncbi Mobile phone emission modulates interhemispheric functional coupling of EEG alpha rhythms
    Fabrizio Vecchio
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
    Eur J Neurosci 25:1908-13. 2007
    ..The present results suggest that prolonged mobile phone emission affects not only the cortical activity but also the spread of neural synchronization conveyed by interhemispherical functional coupling of EEG rhythms...
  100. ncbi Right hemisphere specialization for intensity discrimination of musical and speech sounds
    Alfredo Brancucci
    Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Universita La Sapienza, Sezione EEG ad Alta Risoluzione, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
    Neuropsychologia 43:1916-23. 2005
    ..A monaural control experiment ruled out possible attentional biases. This study provides behavioural evidence of a right hemisphere specialization for the perception of the intensity of musical and speech sounds in healthy subjects...
  101. ncbi Cortical alpha rhythms are correlated with body sway during quiet open-eyes standing in athletes: a high-resolution EEG study
    Claudio Del Percio
    Istituto di Medicina e Scienza dello Sport, CONI Servizi, Via dei Campi Sportivi, 46 00197, Roma, Italy
    Neuroimage 36:822-9. 2007
    ..These results suggest that parasylvian alpha ERD of the right hemisphere may reflect the cortical information processing for the balance in elite athletes subjected to a long training for equilibrium control...