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Early somatosensory processing during tonic muscle pain in humans: relation to loss of proprioception and motor 'defensive' strategiesSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, U O Neurofisiopatologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100 Siena, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 114:1351-8. 2003..Movement and imagery of movements are in fact known to reduce mainly pre-central SEP amplitude (i.e. gating effect)...- rTMS for PTSD: induced merciful oblivion or elimination of abnormal hypermnesia?Simone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100, Siena, Italy
Behav Neurol 17:195-9. 2006..Hence, we hypothesize that daily applications of rTMS in PTSD patients may reduce access to the set of autobiographical stored events, that, if re-experienced, may cause the overt PTSD symptoms... 
Temporal dynamics of memory trace formation in the human prefrontal cortexSimone Rossi
Sezione Neurologia, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Universita di Siena, I 53100 Siena, Italy
Cereb Cortex 21:368-73. 2011..These results confirm the crucial role of the left DLPFC in encoding and provide novel information about the critical timing of its engagement in the formation, consolidation, and maintenance of the memory trace...- Event-related rTMS at encoding affects differently deep and shallow memory tracesIglis Innocenti
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italy
Neuroimage 53:325-30. 2010.... - Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on movement-related cortical activity in humansS Rossi
Istituto di Clinica delle Malattie Nervose e Mentali, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italy
Cereb Cortex 10:802-8. 2000..No changes in the tapping test occurred. These findings suggest that rTMS of the motor cortex at 1 Hz may interfere with the movement related brain activity, probably through influence on cortical inhibitory networks... - Age-related functional changes of prefrontal cortex in long-term memory: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation studySimone 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... - Hypofunctioning of sensory gating mechanisms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderSimone Rossi
Section of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, Brain Stimulation and Evoked Potentials Lab, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100 University of Siena, Italy
Biol Psychiatry 57:16-20. 2005..e., sensory gating). Cortical hyperexcitability in OCD could be eventually responsible for a reduction of sensory gating. This might have pathophysiologic implications for motor compulsions... - Effects of immunotherapy on motor cortex excitability in Stiff Person SyndromeSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, University of Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, 53100, Siena, Italy
J Neurol 257:281-5. 2010..This represents the first report investigating effects of immunotherapy on cortical excitability in SPS... - A real electro-magnetic placebo (REMP) device for sham transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)Simone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100 Siena, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 118:709-16. 2007..A new placebo tool is introduced here, called real electro-magnetic placebo (REMP) device, which can simulate the scalp sensation induced by the real TMS, while leaving both the visual impact and acoustic sensation of real TMS unaltered... - Prefrontal and parietal cortex in human episodic memory: an interference study by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationSimone 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.... - Dysfunctions of cortical excitability in drug-naïve posttraumatic stress disorder patientsSimone Rossi
Department of Neuroscience, Neurology Section, University of Siena School of Medicine, Siena, Italy
Biol Psychiatry 66:54-61. 2009.... 
Distinct olfactory cross-modal effects on the human motor systemSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
PLoS ONE 3:e1702. 2008....- Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on chronic tinnitus: a randomised, crossover, double blind, placebo controlled studySimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Brain Stimulation and Evoked Potentials Lab, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100, Siena, Italy
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 78:857-63. 2007..Moreover, it may be difficult to distinguish actual repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) induced clinical benefits beyond placebo effects in neuropsychiatric patients... - Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and researchSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 120:2008-39. 2009..While all the recommendations here are expert based, they utilize published data to the extent possible... - TMS in cognitive plasticity and the potential for rehabilitationSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I 53100 Siena, Italy
Trends Cogn Sci 8:273-9. 2004..However, the aim of using TMS to develop rehabilitative strategies for motor, perceptive and cognitive functions represents an intriguing challenge... - Prefrontal [correction of Prefontal] cortex in long-term memory: an "interference" approach using magnetic stimulationS Rossi
IRCCS S Giovanni di Dio, via Pilastroni 4, I 25125, Brescia, Italy
Nat Neurosci 4:948-52. 2001..This 'interference' approach allowed us to establish whether a cortical area activated by a memory task actually contributes to behavioral performance... - Somatosensory processing during movement observation in humansS Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, UO Neurofisiopatologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, 53100 Siena, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 113:16-24. 2002..A neural system matching action observation and execution seems to operate in the human brain, but its possible role in processing sensory inputs reaching the cortex during movement observation is unknown... - 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... - Reduction of cortical myoclonus-related epileptic activity following slow-frequency rTMSSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci I 53100, Italy
Neuroreport 15:293-6. 2004..2 microV). This represents in vivo evidence of the possibility to selectively modulate the activity of an epileptic focus by intervening with local low-frequency rTMS... - TMS interference with primacy and recency mechanisms reveals bimodal episodic encoding in the human brainIglis Innocenti
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 25:109-16. 2013..These results are in agreement with the double dissociation between short-term and long-term memory observed in neuropsychological patients and provide direct evidence of distinct cortical mechanisms of encoding in the human brain... - Frequency-dependent tuning of the human motor system induced by transcranial oscillatory potentialsMatteo Feurra
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia e Neurofisiologia Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Policlinico Le Scotte, I 53100 Siena, Italy
J Neurosci 31:12165-70. 2011..These results help clarifying the functional significance of the 20 Hz idling β rhythm of sensorimotor regions and suggest potential clinical applications of this approach... - Uncommon findings in idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitisSimone Rossi
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Università di Siena Azienda Ospedaliera, Universitaria Senese Policlinico Santa Maria alle Scotte, Viale Bracci, 53100, Siena, Italy
J Neurol 251:548-55. 2004.... - Cortico-Cortical Connectivity between Right Parietal and Bilateral Primary Motor Cortices during Imagined and Observed Actions: A Combined TMS/tDCS StudyMatteo Feurra
Sezione Neurologia e Neurofisiologia Clinica, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese Policlinico le Scotte, Siena, Italy
Front Neural Circuits 5:10. 2011..These results suggest that motor imagery, differently from action observation, is sustained by a strictly ipsilateral parieto-motor cortex circuits. Results might have implication for neuromodulatory rehabilitative purposes... - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome (TS)Antonio Mantovani
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Section of Neurophysiology, Postgraduate School in Applied Neurological Sciences, Siena University, Siena, Italy
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 9:95-100. 2006..Slow rTMS to SMA resulted in a significant clinical improvement and a normalization of the right hemisphere hyperexcitability, thereby restoring hemispheric symmetry in motor threshold... - Bi-hemispheric effects on corticospinal excitability induced by repeated sessions of imagery versus observation of actionsGiovanni Bianco
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia and Neurofisiologia Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy
Restor Neurol Neurosci 30:481-9. 2012..Such an effect was lacking for action observation, likely because of the innateness of these mechanisms. Results might have implications for rehabilitative purposes... - Transcranial magnetic stimulation: diagnostic, therapeutic, and research potentialPaolo M Rossini
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, S Giovanni Calibita, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina, Roma, Italy
Neurology 68:484-8. 2007..However, safety and ethical limitations of TMS technique need a high level of vigilance... - Natural history of vertebrobasilar dolichoectasiaStefano G Passero
Department of Neurosciences, Neurology Unit, University of Siena, Italy
Neurology 70:66-72. 2008..The purpose of this study was to explore the natural history of VBD, evaluate its progression, and examine factors that may influence the clinical course of this condition... - Activity-dependent changes in intrinsic excitability of human spinal motoneurones produced by natural activityAlessandro Rossi
Clinical Neurology and Neurophysiology, Viale Bracci 1, 53100 Siena, Italy
J Neurophysiol 108:2473-80. 2012..e., where the action potential is generated) and peripheral axon segments changed in a similar, activity-dependent manner... - Seizures after spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhageStefano Passero
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione di Neurologia, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italy
Epilepsia 43:1175-80. 2002.... - Off-line removal of TMS-induced artifacts on human electroencephalography by Kalman filterFabio Morbidi
Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
J Neurosci Methods 162:293-302. 2007..Experimental results show that the Kalman filter is more effective than stationary filters (Wiener filter) for the problem under investigation... - Number of lymph node metastases and its prognostic significance in early gastric cancer: a multicenter Italian studyFranco Roviello
Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale ed Oncologica, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italia
J Surg Oncol 94:275-80; discussion 274. 2006..This study was aimed at evaluating the prognostic significance of the number of metastatic nodes in early gastric cancer (EGC)... - Hereditary neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease with autonomic failure and cerebellar degenerationRaffaella Zannolli
Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Reproductive Medicine, Section of Pediatrics, Policlinico Le Scotte, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Arch Neurol 59:1319-26. 2002..The disease has been found in monozygotic twins and in siblings. In 2 previously described families, the disorder has affected 2 generations... - A clinical case of duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor with a peculiarity in the surgical approachGiovanni De Marco
Department of General Surgery and Oncology, University of Siena, Unit of Surgical Oncology, Siena, Italy
Tumori 91:261-3. 2005..The technique reduces the morbidity and mortality correlated with duodenocefalopancreasectomy and improves postsurgical quality of life without worsening the risk of recurrence... - Late recurrence of malignant melanoma presenting as small bowel intussusceptionBernardino Rampone
Department of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, University of Siena, viale Bracci 25, Policlinico Le Scotte, 53100, Siena, Italy
Dig Dis Sci 51:1047-8. 2006 - Human cortical rhythms during visual delayed choice reaction time tasks. A high-resolution EEG study on normal agingClaudio 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... - The role of prefrontal cortex in verbal episodic memory: rTMS evidenceMarco Sandrini
IRCCS S. Giovanni di Dio--FBF Brescia, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 15:855-61. 2003..These results indicate that the nature of the material to be remembered interacts with the encoding-retrieval DLPFC asymmetry; moreover, the crucial role of DLPFC is evident only for novel stimuli... - Involvement of the human dorsal premotor cortex in unimanual motor control: an interference approach using transcranial magnetic stimulationMassimo Cincotta
U O di Neurologia, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Ospedale S Maria Nuova, Piazza S Maria Nuova, 1, 50122 Firenze, Italy
Neurosci Lett 367:189-93. 2004..Findings suggest that activity in the dPMC contributes to the suppression of mirror movements during intended unilateral movements... - Human cortical EEG rhythms during long-term episodic memory task. A high-resolution EEG study of the HERA modelClaudio 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... - Human cortical responses during one-bit short-term memory. A high-resolution EEG study on delayed choice reaction time tasksClaudio 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... - Functional frontoparietal connectivity during short-term memory as revealed by high-resolution EEG coherence analysisClaudio 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... - Contact forces evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex in a multi-finger graspGabriel Baud-Bovy
Faculty of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Brain Res Bull 75:723-36. 2008.... - Functional frontoparietal connectivity during encoding and retrieval processes follows HERA model. A high-resolution studyClaudio 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... - [Angiogenic factors and their relation to stage, lymph-node micrometastases and prognosis in patients operated on for gastric cancer]Paolo Aurello
Dipartimento di Chirurgia P Valdoni, Seconda Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Azienda Ospedaliera Sant Andrea, Roma
Chir Ital 59:435-44. 2007..More investigation with similar techniques in large prospective series is needed as a support to clinical practice... - Modulation of high-frequency (600 Hz) somatosensory-evoked potentials after rTMS of the primary sensory cortexDomenico Restuccia
IRCCS La Nostra Famiglia E Medea, Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Italy
Eur J Neurosci 26:2349-58. 2007..Possible underlying neurophysiological phenomena are discussed... - Classification of lymph node metastases from gastric cancer: comparison between N-site and N-number systems. Our experience and review of the literaturePaolo Aurello
University of Rome, La Sapienza, Second Faculty of Medicine, Sant Andrea Hospital, Surgery Unit D, 00189 Rome, Italy
Am Surg 73:359-66. 2007..Hence, in our opinion, for correct N-staging, 10 lymph nodes in early gastric cancer and at least 16 in the other pT-stages seem sufficient for a real pN0 stadiation... - Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of panic disorder (PD) with comorbid major depressionAntonio Mantovani
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 21, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Affect Disord 102:277-80. 2007..We tested whether low-frequency repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) could normalize the overactivity of right frontal regions and thereby improve symptoms... - Clinical neurophysiology of aging brain: from normal aging to neurodegenerationPaolo M Rossini
Clinica Neurologica University Campus Bio Medico, Rome, Italy
Prog Neurobiol 83:375-400. 2007..Practical implications of the methods are emphasized... - Human ventral parietal cortex plays a functional role on visuospatial attention and primary consciousness. A repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation studyClaudio 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... - Robotics and neuroscience. EditorialDomenico Prattichizzo
Brain Res Bull 75:715-6. 2008 - Frequency of the LRRK2 G2019S mutation in Italian patients affected by Parkinson's diseaseTiziana Squillaro
J Hum Genet 52:201-4. 2007..2%). These results confirm that the G2019S mutation is a relevant cause of sporadic PD cases in the Italian population and stress the importance of performing this genetic test, which has important implications for genetic counselling...