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Fabio Pizza is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has a significant body of research focused on sleep and related disorders. Their work intersects multiple fields including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine.

The scientist's research spans several subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, endocrine and autonomic systems, epidemiology, and neurology. The main topics covered in their studies include sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, restless legs syndrome, circadian rhythm and melatonin, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, obstructive sleep apnea, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Fabio Pizza has contributed to the scientific community through publications in notable venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • SLEEP
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • Nature and Science of Sleep

Their recent papers reflect a focus on multiple dimensions of sleep research and related clinical issues:

  • Dopaminergic imaging and clinical predictors for phenoconversion of REM sleep behaviour disorder (2020, Brain)
  • To split or to lump? Classifying the central disorders of hypersomnolence (2020, SLEEP)
  • Sleep disturbances and sleep disorders as risk factors for chronic postsurgical pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022, Sleep Medicine Reviews)
  • The orexin story, sleep and sleep disturbances (2022, Journal of Sleep Research)
  • Narcolepsy (2022, Journal of Sleep Research)

Frequent co-authors in Fabio Pizza's collaborative work include Giuseppe Plazzi, Elena Antelmi, Francesco Biscarini, Stefano Vandi, and Christian Franceschini. These collaborations underline involvement in interdisciplinary and multifaceted research projects.

Best Publications

  • Neural network analysis of sleep stages enables efficient diagnosis of narcolepsy

    Jens B. Stephansen;Jens B. Stephansen;Alexander N. Olesen;Alexander N. Olesen;Mads Olsen;Mads Olsen;Aditya Ambati

  • Mutations in DNMT1 cause autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, deafness and narcolepsy

    Juliane Winkelmann;Ling Lin;Barbara Schormair;Birgitte R. Kornum

  • Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy

    Birgitte R Kornum;Minae Kawashima;Minae Kawashima;Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin

  • ImmunoChip Study Implicates Antigen Presentation to T Cells in Narcolepsy

    Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Eimear E. Kenny

  • Challenges and perspectives in obstructive sleep apnoea Report by an ad hoc working group of the Sleep Disordered Breathing Group of the European Respiratory Society and the European Sleep Research Society

    Winfried Randerath;Claudio L. Bassetti;Maria R. Bonsignore;Ramon Farre

  • Clinical, polysomnographic and genome-wide association analyses of narcolepsy with cataplexy: a European Narcolepsy Network study

    Gianina Luca;José Haba-Rubio;Yves Dauvilliers;Gert-Jan Lammers

  • Complex movement disorders at disease onset in childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy

    Giuseppe Plazzi;Fabio Pizza;Vincenzo Palaia;Christian Franceschini

  • DQB1 locus alone explains most of the risk and protection in narcolepsy with cataplexy in Europe.

    Mehdi Tafti;Mehdi Tafti;Hyun Hor;Hyun Hor;Yves Dauvilliers;Gert J. Lammers

  • High Prevalence of Precocious Puberty and Obesity in Childhood Narcolepsy with Cataplexy

    Francesca Poli;Fabio Pizza;Emmanuel Mignot;Raffaele Ferri

  • The distinguishing motor features of cataplexy : a study from video-recorded attacks

    Fabio Pizza;Fabio Pizza;Elena Antelmi;Elena Antelmi;Stefano Vandi;Stefano Vandi;Stefano Meletti

  • HLA-DPB1 and HLA Class I Confer Risk of and Protection from Narcolepsy

    Hanna m. Ollila;Jean-Marie Ravel;Fang Han;Juliette Faraco

  • Body Mass Index-Independent Metabolic Alterations in Narcolepsy with Cataplexy

    Francesca Poli;Giuseppe Plazzi;Guido Di Dalmazi;Danilo Ribichini

  • Clinical and polysomnographic course of childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy

    Fabio Pizza;Fabio Pizza;Christian Franceschini;Christian Franceschini;Christian Franceschini;Hanna Peltola;Stefano Vandi;Stefano Vandi

  • Rare primary mitochondrial DNA mutations and probable synergistic variants in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.

    Alessandro Achilli;Luisa Iommarini;Anna Olivieri;Maria Pala

  • Low brain iron content in idiopathic restless legs syndrome patients detected by phase imaging.

    Giovanni Rizzo;David Manners;Claudia Testa;Caterina Tonon

  • Dopaminergic imaging and clinical predictors for phenoconversion of REM sleep behaviour disorder

    Dario Arnaldi;Andrea Chincarini;Michele T Hu;Karel Sonka

  • Daytime continuous polysomnography predicts MSLT results in hypersomnias of central origin

    Fabio Pizza;Keivan K. Moghadam;Stefano Vandi;Stefania Detto

  • Nocturnal Cerebral Hemodynamics in Snorers and in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

    Fabio Pizza;Martin Biallas;Martin Wolf;Esther Werth

  • The burden of narcolepsy with cataplexy: how disease history and clinical features influence socio-economic outcomes.

    Francesca Ingravallo;Valentina Gnucci;Fabio Pizza;Luca Vignatelli

  • The clinical spectrum of childhood narcolepsy.

    Emanuela Postiglione;Elena Antelmi;Fabio Pizza;Michel Lecendreux

  • The MSLT is Repeatable in Narcolepsy Type 1 But Not Narcolepsy Type 2: A Retrospective Patient Study.

    Chad Ruoff;Fabio Pizza;Lynn Marie Trotti;Karel Sonka

  • Neural network an1alysis of sleep stages enables efficient diagnosis of narcolepsy.

    Jens B. Stephansen;Alexander N. Olesen;Mads Olsen;Aditya Ambati

  • Narcolepsy during Childhood: An Update.

    Francesca Letizia Rocca;Fabio Pizza;Emilia Ricci;Giuseppe Plazzi

  • Autonomic disturbances in narcolepsy.

    Giuseppe Plazzi;Keivan Kaveh Moghadam;Leonardo Serra Maggi;Vincenzo Donadio

  • Nocturnal Sleep Dynamics Identify Narcolepsy Type 1.

    Fabio Pizza;Stefano Vandi;Martina Iloti;Christian Franceschini

  • Sleep disorders in patients with spinal cord injury

    Maria Pia Giannoccaro;Keivan Kaveh Moghadam;Fabio Pizza;Stefano Boriani

  • Growing Up with Type 1 Narcolepsy: Its Anthropometric and Endocrine Features.

    Virginia Ponziani;Monia Gennari;Fabio Pizza;Antonio Balsamo

  • The Brain Correlates of Laugh and Cataplexy in Childhood Narcolepsy.

    Stefano Meletti;Anna Elisabetta Vaudano;Fabio Pizza;Andrea Ruggieri

Frequent Co-Authors

Rocco Liguori
Rocco Liguori University of Bologna
Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers University of Montpellier
Pasquale Montagna
Pasquale Montagna University of Bologna
Claudio L. Bassetti
Claudio L. Bassetti University of Bern
Federica Provini
Federica Provini University of Bologna
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Poul Jennum
Poul Jennum University of Copenhagen
Oliviero Bruni
Oliviero Bruni Sapienza University of Rome
Isabelle Arnulf
Isabelle Arnulf Sorbonne University
Valerio Carelli
Valerio Carelli University of Bologna

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