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Federica Provini

Federica Provini

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Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
13959
World Ranking
3287
National Ranking
135

Overview

Federica Provini is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has a research focus spanning medicine and neuroscience. Their work is primarily situated within neurology and cognitive neuroscience, with significant contributions to epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics include:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Sleep Medicine
  • SLEEP
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Biomarkers of conversion to α-synucleinopathy in isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder" (2021, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Video-polysomnography procedures for diagnosis of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and the identification of its prodromal stages: guidelines from the International RBD Study Group" (2021, SLEEP)
  • "Progression of clinical markers in prodromal Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: a multicentre study" (2023, Brain)
  • "Frequency and Characterization of Movement Disorders in Anti-IgLON5 Disease" (2021, Neurology)
  • "Clinical trials in REM sleep behavioural disorder: challenges and opportunities" (2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry)

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Luca Baldelli
  • Pietro Cortelli
  • Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura
  • Giuseppe Loddo
  • Greta Mainieri

Best Publications

  • Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study

    Ronald B Postuma;Alex Iranzo;Michele Hu;Birgit Högl

  • Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. A clinical and polygraphic overview of 100 consecutive cases.

    Federica Provini;Giuseppe Plazzi;Paolo Tinuper;Stefano Vandi

  • REM sleep behavior disorders in multiple system atrophy

    G. Plazzi;R. Corsini;F. Provini;G. Pierangeli

  • Melanopsin retinal ganglion cell loss in Alzheimer disease

    Chiara La Morgia;Fred N. Ross‐Cisneros;Yosef Koronyo;Jens Hannibal

  • Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy

    Paolo Tinuper;Francesca Bisulli;J H Cross;Dale Hesdorffer

  • Mutations in mammalian target of rapamycin regulator DEPDC5 cause focal epilepsy with brain malformations.

    Ingrid E Scheffer;Sarah E Heron;Brigid M Regan;Simone A Mandelstam;Simone A Mandelstam

  • Undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing among male nondippers with essential hypertension.

    Francesco Portaluppi;Federica Provini;Pietro Cortelli;Giuseppe Plazzi

  • Sleep disorders in multiple system atrophy: a correlative video-polysomnographic study

    Roberto Vetrugno;Federica Provini;Pietro Cortelli;Giuseppe Plazzi

  • Biomarkers of conversion to α-synucleinopathy in isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder

    Mitchell G. Miglis;Charles H. Adler;Elena Antelmi;Dario Arnaldi

  • Movement disorders in sleep: guidelines for differentiating epileptic from non-epileptic motor phenomena arising from sleep.

    Paolo Tinuper;Federica Provini;Francesca Bisulli;Luca Vignatelli

  • REM sleep behaviour disorder in Parkinson's disease: a questionnaire-based study.

    Cesa Scaglione;L. Vignatelli;G. Plazzi;R. Marchese

  • Motor pattern of periodic limb movements during sleep

    F. Provini;R. Vetrugno;Stefano Meletti;G. Plazzi

  • Epileptic nocturnal wanderings.

    Giuseppe Plazzi;Paolo Tinuper;Pasquale Montagna;Federica Provini

  • "When the feeling's gone": a selective loss of musical emotion.

    Tim Griffiths;Jason Warren;Jennifer Dean;David Howard

  • Nocturnal eating: sleep-related eating disorder or night eating syndrome? A videopolysomnographic study.

    Roberto Vetrugno;Mauro Manconi;Luigi Ferini-Strambi;Federica Provini

  • The Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease: From Research to Clinical Practice

    Giuseppe Loddo;Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura;Luisa Sambati;Giulia Giannini

  • Increased frequency of arousal parasomnias in families with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: A common mechanism?

    Francesca Bisulli;Luca Vignatelli;Ilaria Naldi;Laura Licchetta

  • Video-polysomnography procedures for diagnosis of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and the identification of its prodromal stages: Guidelines from the International RBD Study Group

    Matteo Cesari;Anna Heidbreder;Erik K St Louis;Friederike Sixel-Döring

  • Pre-symptomatic diagnosis in fatal familial insomnia: serial neurophysiological and 18FDG-PET studies

    Pietro Cortelli;Daniela Perani;Pasquale Montagna;Roberto Gallassi

  • Agrypnia excitata: clinical features and pathophysiological implications

    Elio Lugaresi;Federica Provini

  • Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunctions and sleep disorders

    Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura;Federica Provini;Pietro Guaraldi;Giuseppe Plazzi

  • Propriospinal myoclonus upon relaxation and drowsiness: A cause of severe insomnia

    Pasquale Montagna;Federica Provini;Giuseppe Plazzi;Rocco Liguori

  • The wide clinical spectrum of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Federica Provini;Giuseppe Plazzi;Pasquale Montagna;Elio Lugaresi

  • Harlequin syndrome: an association with overlap parasomnia

    C Lombardi;Roberto Vetrugno;Federica Provini;Giuseppe Plazzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Pasquale Montagna
Pasquale Montagna University of Bologna
Paolo Tinuper
Paolo Tinuper University of Bologna
Pietro Cortelli
Pietro Cortelli University of Bologna
Francesca Bisulli
Francesca Bisulli University of Bologna
Fabio Pizza
Fabio Pizza University of Bologna
Rocco Liguori
Rocco Liguori University of Bologna
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Stefano Meletti
Stefano Meletti University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Monica Puligheddu
Monica Puligheddu University of Cagliari
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen

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