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Overview

Federico Vigevano is affiliated with Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work touches several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology, and Molecular Biology.

Vigevano's research topics concentrate on:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Migraine and Headache Studies
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Frequent co-authors in Vigevano's research include Nicola Specchio, Marina Trivisano, Massimiliano Valeriani, Romina Moavero, and Fabiana Ursitti.

Research has been published primarily in venues such as:

  • Epilepsia
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Brain Sciences
  • Epilepsia Open

Recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Vigevano's work. These include:

  • "Autism and Epilepsy in Patients With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex" (2020, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • "Clinical and Genetic Overview of Paroxysmal Movement Disorders and Episodic Ataxias" (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • "Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis: Potential for Targeted Therapy" (2020, Drugs)
  • "I stay at home with headache. A survey to investigate how the lockdown for COVID-19 impacted on headache in Italian children" (2020, Cephalalgia)
  • "Efficacy and safety of Fenfluramine hydrochloride for the treatment of seizures in Dravet syndrome: A real-world study" (2020, Epilepsia)

Best Publications

  • De novo mutations in ATP1A3 cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Erin L Heinzen;Kathryn J Swoboda;Yuki Hitomi;Fiorella Gurrieri

  • Vigabatrin Versus ACTH as First-Line Treatment for Infantile Spasms : A Randomized, Prospective Study

    Federico Vigevano;Maria Roberta Cilio

  • Role of the hypothalamic hamartoma in the genesis of gelastic fits (a video-stereo-EEG study)

    C. Munari;P. Kahane;S. Francione;D. Hoffmann

  • Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy

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

  • Spectrum of SCN1A mutations in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy

    Rima Nabbout;E. Gennaro;B. Dalla Bernardina;O. Dulac

  • Benign infantile familial convulsions.

    F. Vigevano;L. Fusco;M. Di Capua;S. Ricci

  • Ictal clinical electroencephalographic findings of spasms in West syndrome.

    Lucia Fusco;Federico Vigevano

  • Recommendations for the management of “febrile seizures” Ad hoc Task Force of LICE Guidelines Commission

    Giuseppe Capovilla;Massimo Mastrangelo;Antonino Romeo;Federico Vigevano

  • Linkage mapping of benign familial infantile convulsions (BFIC) to chromosome 19q

    Michel Guipponi;François Rivier;Federico Vigevano;Corinne Beck

  • Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a consensus view

    Colin Ferrie;Roberto Caraballo;Athanasios Covanis;Veysi Demirbilek

  • Experience with immunomodulatory treatments in Rasmussen’s encephalitis

    Tiziana Granata;L. Fusco;G. Gobbi;E. Freri

  • Rasmussen’s encephalitis Early characteristics allow diagnosis

    Tiziana Granata;G. Gobbi;R. Spreafico;F. Vigevano

  • Long-term neurological outcome in children with early-onset epilepsy associated with tuberous sclerosis.

    Raffaella Cusmai;Romina Moavero;Roberta Bombardieri;Federico Vigevano

  • Hemimegalencephaly and Intractable Epilepsy: Benefits of Hemispherectomy

    F Vigevano;E Bertini;R Boldrini;C Bosman

  • Protocadherin 19 mutations in girls with infantile-onset epilepsy

    C. Marini;D. Mei;L. Parmeggiani;V. Norci

  • The Child With Headache in a Pediatric Emergency Department

    Elena Conicella;Umberto Raucci;Nicola Vanacore;Federico Vigevano

  • Early-onset benign occipital seizure susceptibility syndrome.

    C. D. Ferrie;A. Beaumanoir;R. Guerrini;S. Kivity

  • Cognitive development in Dravet syndrome: a retrospective, multicenter study of 26 patients.

    Francesca Ragona;Tiziana Granata;Bernardo Dalla Bernardina;Francesca Offredi

  • The phenotype of SCN8A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy.

    Elena Gardella;Carla Marini;Marina Trivisano;Mark P Fitzgerald;Mark P Fitzgerald

  • Genetic testing in benign familial epilepsies of the first year of life : Clinical and diagnostic significance

    Federico Zara;Nicola Specchio;Pasquale Striano;Angela Robbiano

  • An open-label trial of levetiracetam in severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.

    P. Striano;A. Coppola;M. Pezzella;C. Ciampa

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Specchio
Nicola Specchio Boston Children's Hospital
Lucia Fusco
Lucia Fusco Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Massimiliano Valeriani
Massimiliano Valeriani University of Rome Tor Vergata
Raffaella Cusmai
Raffaella Cusmai Boston Children's Hospital
Paolo Curatolo
Paolo Curatolo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Giuseppe Capovilla
Giuseppe Capovilla Boston Children's Hospital
Renzo Guerrini
Renzo Guerrini University of Florence
Tiziana Granata
Tiziana Granata Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Bernardo Dalla Bernardina
Bernardo Dalla Bernardina University of Verona
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa

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