Pubblicazioni scientifiche

Is Art Therapy a Reliable Tool for Rehabilitating People Suffering from Brain/Mental Diseases?

Whether art therapy can be an effective rehabilitative treatment for people with brain or mental...

Changes in depression, anxiety, anger, and personality after resective surgery for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: A 2-year follow-up study

Objective: To further elucidate the psychiatric outcome of surgical treatment for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)....

Genital and sexual manifestations in drugresistant partial epilepsy

Summary: Genital and sexual manifestations represent rare clinical phenomena during or after focal seizures. The...

Epilessie posteriori farmacoresistenti esplorate mediante elettrodi subdurali

SUMMARY: Epilepsy surgery for seizures arising from the posterior cortex often requires intracranial investigations in...

Seizure clusters and adverse events during pre-surgical video-EEG monitoring with a slow anti-epileptic drug (AED) taper

Objective: To evaluate the efficiency and safety of pre-surgical video-EEG monitoring with a slow anti-epileptic...

Procedure to localize subdural electrodes

Objectives: To evaluate a novel method for localization of subdural electrodes in presurgical assessment of patients...

Attachment and Parenting in Adult Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Background: The literature suggests that dysfunctional parenting and insecure attachment may increase risk of anxiety-related...

Acute postoperative seizures and long-term seizure outcome after surgery for hippocampal sclerosis

Purpose: To assess the incidence and the prognostic value of acute postoperative seizures (APOS) in...

Cardiac asystole during right frontal lobe seizures: a case report

The association between partial seizures and cardiac asystole has rarely been reported in the literature.This...

Ictal heart rate increase precedes EEG discharge in drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe seizures

Objective: Heart rate (HR) changes, mainly tachycardia, are often observed during seizures originating from the...

Focal cortical dysplasia and pericentric inversion of chromosome 9: a case report

Summary: A child affected by multiple dysmorphisms and behavioral disorders with pericentric inversion on chromosome...

Theatre Is a Valid Add-On Therapeutic Intervention for Emotional Rehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients

Conventional medical treatments of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are effective on motor disturbances but may have...

Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: different surgical strategies after a non-invasive diagnostic protocol

Aim: To test a non-invasive presurgical protocol for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) based on ‘‘anatomo–...

Capacità dei test di memoria di predire il lato della zona epilettogena nell’epilessia temporale farmacoresistente

The lateralizing value of a neuropsychological battery including several memory tests on a large sample...

Factors associated with generic and disease-specific quality of life in temporal lobe epilepsy

Purpose: We aimed at further elucidating the association between quality of life (QOL) and sociodemographic...

Serial postoperative awake and sleep EEG and long-term seizure outcome after anterior temporal lobectomy for hippocampal sclerosis.

OBJECTIVE:To test if postoperative prolonged awake and sleep EEG monitoring predict long-term seizure outcome in...

Genital and sexual manifestations in drug-resistant partial epilepsy

Genital and sexual manifestations represent rare clinical phenomena during or after focal seizures. The semiology...

Surgery after intracranial investigation with subdural electrodes in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy: outcome and complications.

Video-EEG monitoring with intracranial subdural electrodes is a useful assessment tool for the localization of...