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| M FerraraSummaryAffiliation: University of Rome La Sapienza Country: Italy Publications
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Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements as possible indicators of nighttime sleepinessS Porcu
Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Istituto Medico Legale, Reparto Neurologia, Roma, Italy
Physiol Behav 65:437-43. 1998..These results, suggesting that saccadic performance, unlike SP, seems to be more sensitive to increasing levels of sleepiness, encourage further research on this topic...- Auditory arousal thresholds after selective slow-wave sleep deprivationM Ferrara
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 110:2148-52. 1999..The presence of a time-of-night effect on AATs will also be assessed... - Selective slow-wave sleep (SWS) deprivation and SWS rebound: do we need a fixed SWS amount per night?M Ferrara
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Rome 00185, Italy
Sleep Res Online 2:15-9. 1999.... - Assessing nighttime vigilance through a three-letter cancellation task (3-LCT): effects of daytime sleep with temazepam or placeboM Casagrande
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Physiol Behav 68:251-6. 1999..Nocturnal variations of vigilance detected through the 3-LCT were similar to those revealed by means of MSLT, while the ability to maintain wakefulness was substantially spared during the night... - A complementary relationship between wake and REM sleep in the auditory system: a pre-sleep increase of middle-ear muscle activity (MEMA) causes a decrease of MEMA during sleepL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Exp Brain Res 130:105-12. 2000..Results suggest that the complementary relationship between wake and REM sleep is not bounded to oculomotor activity, but it may also be extended at least to middle-ear muscle phasic activity... - Antero-posterior EEG changes during the wakefulness-sleep transitionL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sezione di Neuoroscienze, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 112:1901-11. 2001..To investigate the brain topography of the human sleep EEG along the antero-posterior axis during the wakefulness-sleep transition, by means of both a single Hz analysis and a grouped-frequency analysis of EEG changes... - The effects of slow-wave sleep (SWS) deprivation and time of night on behavioral performance upon awakeningM Ferrara
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Physiol Behav 68:55-61. 1999..Finally, our results do not support the existence of a circadian rhythm of sleep inertia linked to body temperature rhythm... - Effect of a presleep optokinetic stimulation on rapid eye movements during REM sleepL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78 00185, Roma, Italy
Physiol Behav 69:471-5. 2000..The results suggest that the complementary relation between wake and sleep eye movements is specific for the saccadic system, allowing us to exclude a peripheral mechanism, that is, an effect due to fatigue of extraocular muscles... 
Psychomotor performance is not influenced by brief repeated exposures to mobile phonesG Curcio
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Bioelectromagnetics 29:237-41. 2008..In summary, these data show an absence of effects with these particular exposure conditions; however, possible cognitive effects induced by different signal characteristics cannot be excluded...- The spontaneous K-complex during stage 2 sleep: is it the 'forerunner' of delta waves?L De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia Sezione di Neuroscienze, Universita degli Studi La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78 00185, Roma, Italy
Neurosci Lett 291:41-3. 2000.... - Oculomotor impairment after 1 night of total sleep deprivation: a dissociation between measures of speed and accuracyL De Gennaro
Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78 00185, Roma, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 111:1771-8. 2000..The present study examined the effects of 40 h of sleep deprivation and of time-of-day on saccadic and smooth pursuit oculomotor performance... - Slow eye movements and EEG power spectra during wake-sleep transitionL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78 00185, Roma, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 111:2107-15. 2000..The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between slow eye movements (SEMs) and quantitative EEG measures during the wake-sleep transition... - Visual search performance across 40 h of continuous wakefulness: Measures of speed and accuracy and relation with oculomotor performanceL De Gennaro
Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy
Physiol Behav 74:197-204. 2001..Such a performance worsening is evident on speed, but not on accuracy indices, and is strictly related to the deterioration of oculomotor performance, indicating a clear circadian effect... - Auditory evoked responses upon awakening from sleep in human subjectsM Ferrara
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Rome, Italy
Neurosci Lett 310:145-8. 2001..The reaction times, recorded concomitantly to AEPs, were more sensitive to the negative effects of sleep inertia... - Effect of slow-wave sleep deprivation on topographical distribution of spindlesL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Roma, Italy
Behav Brain Res 116:55-9. 2000..It is concluded that the SWS rebound after 2 nights of selective SWS deprivation is associated with a reduction of spindles during stage 2... - Topographical distribution of spindles: variations between and within nrem sleep cyclesL De Gennaro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universit degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Sleep Res Online 3:155-60. 2000.... - Neurophysiological effects of mobile phone electromagnetic fields on humans: a comprehensive reviewE Valentini
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Bioelectromagnetics 28:415-32. 2007.... - Time-course of electromagnetic field effects on human performance and tympanic temperatureG Curcio
Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Neuroreport 15:161-4. 2004..There was a clear time-course of the reaction time and temperature data, indicating that performance and physiological measures need a minimum of 25 min of EMF exposure to show appreciable changes... - The boundary between wakefulness and sleep: quantitative electroencephalographic changes during the sleep onset periodL De Gennaro
Department of Psychology, Section of Neuroscience, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy
Neuroscience 107:1-11. 2001.... - Electroencephalographic sleep inertia of the awakening brainC Marzano
Department of Psychology, University of Rome Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy
Neuroscience 176:308-17. 2011..Altogether these findings support the hypothesis that a generalized reduction in beta activity and increased delta activity in more posterior areas upon awakening may represent the EEG substratum of the sleep inertia phenomenon... - Reduced sympathetic outflow and adrenal secretory activity during a 40-day stay in the AntarcticS Farrace
CSV, Aerospace Medicine Department, Pratica di Mare AFB, 00040 Pomezia, Roma, Italy
Int J Psychophysiol 49:17-27. 2003..This pattern is suggestive of a trophotropic neurovegetative adaptive process... - Is the brain influenced by a phone call? An EEG study of resting wakefulnessG Curcio
Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, I 00185 Rome, Italy
Neurosci Res 53:265-70. 2005..The present data lend further support to the idea that pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields can affect normal brain functioning, also if no conclusions can be drawn about the possible health effects... 
Dysmorphism of the middle ear: case reportP Solero
Audiology and Phoniatric Clinic, Torino, Italy
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 25:292-5. 2005....- Performance, ability to stay awake, and tendency to fall asleep during the night after a diurnal sleep with temazepam or placeboS Porcu
Divisione Aerea Studi Ricerche e Sperimentazioni, Reparto Medicina Aeronautica e Spaziale, Aeropoto di Pratica di Mare, Pomezia Roma, Italy
Sleep 20:535-41. 1997..Temazepam resulted in being an effective diurnal hypnotic, increasing total sleep time with no residual detrimental effects on sleepiness and performance and with an increase in the ability to stay awake...