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Laura Castana is affiliated with ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a total of 26 publications in Medicine and 25 in Neuroscience. Within these disciplines, their subfields of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Neurology.

The main topics explored in their work cover a range of areas related to brain function and neurological disorders. These topics are:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Laura Castana's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Investigating visuo-spatial neglect and visual extinction during intracranial electrical stimulations: The role of the right inferior parietal cortex," 2021, Neuropsychologia
  • "Stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG)-Guided Surgery in Epilepsy With Cingulate Gyrus Involvement: Electrode Implantation Strategies and Postoperative Seizure Outcome," 2023, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "SEEG re-exploration in a patient with complex frontal epilepsy with rapid perisylvian propagation and mixed 'startle - reflex' seizures," 2021, Epileptic Disorders
  • "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans," 2025, PLoS Biology
  • "Thalamic and neocortical differences in the relationship between the time course of delta and sigma power during NREM sleep in humans," 2020, Journal of Sleep Research

Frequently publishing colleagues include Piergiorgio d'Orio, Francesco Cardinale, Ivana Sartori, Martina Revay, and Ezequiel Mikulan.

Laura Castana has contributed works to several notable publication venues. They have multiple publications in:

  • Epilepsia
  • Acta Neurochirurgica
  • Epilepsy & Behavior Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychologia

Best Publications

  • Stereoelectroencephalography: surgical methodology, safety, and stereotactic application accuracy in 500 procedures.

    Francesco Cardinale;Massimo Cossu;Laura Castana;Giuseppe Casaceli

  • Stereoelectroencephalography in the presurgical evaluation of focal epilepsy: a retrospective analysis of 215 procedures.

    Massimo Cossu;Francesco Cardinale;Laura Castana;Alberto Citterio

  • Epilepsy surgery in children: results and predictors of outcome on seizures.

    Massimo Cossu;Giorgio Lo Russo;Stefano Francione;Roberto Mai

  • Stereoelectroencephalography: retrospective analysis of 742 procedures in a single centre.

    Francesco Cardinale;Michele Rizzi;Elena Vignati;Massimo Cossu

  • Validation of FreeSurfer-Estimated Brain Cortical Thickness: Comparison with Histologic Measurements

    Francesco Cardinale;Giuseppa Chinnici;Manuela Bramerio;Roberto Mai

  • Surgical treatment of drug-resistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Lino Nobili;S. Francione;R. Mai;F. Cardinale

  • Stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the epileptogenic zone: a retrospective study on 89 cases

    Massimo Cossu;Dalila Fuschillo;Giuseppe Casaceli;Veronica Pelliccia

  • Insular‐opercular seizures manifesting with sleep‐related paroxysmal motor behaviors: A stereo‐EEG study

    Paola Proserpio;Massimo Cossu;Stefano Francione;Laura Tassi

  • Sleep-related hyperkinetic seizures of temporal lobe origin.

    L. Nobili;M. Cossu;R. Mai;L. Tassi

  • Seizure outcome of epilepsy surgery in focal epilepsies associated with temporomesial glioneuronal tumors: lesionectomy compared with tailored resection

    Marco Giulioni;Guido Rubboli;Gianluca Marucci;Matteo Martinoni

  • A new tool for touch-free patient registration for robot-assisted intracranial surgery: application accuracy from a phantom study and a retrospective surgical series.

    Francesco Cardinale;Michele Rizzi;Piergiorgio d’Orio;Giuseppe Casaceli

  • Features of somatosensory manifestations induced by intracranial electrical stimulations of the human insula

    Matteo Pugnaghi;Stefano Meletti;Laura Castana;Stefano Francione

  • Multimodal responses induced by cortical stimulation of the parietal lobe: a stereo-electroencephalography study

    Simona Balestrini;Stefano Francione;Roberto Mai;Laura Castana

  • Stereo-EEG-guided radio-frequency thermocoagulations of epileptogenic grey-matter nodular heterotopy

    Massimo Cossu;Dalila Fuschillo;Francesco Cardinale;Laura Castana

  • Stereoelectroencephalography in the presurgical evaluation of focal epilepsy in infancy and early childhood.

    Massimo Cossu;Marco Schiariti;Stefano Francione;Dalila Fuschillo

  • Taylor's focal cortical dysplasia increases the risk of sleep-related epilepsy.

    Lino Nobili;Francesco Cardinale;Umberto Magliola;Alessandro Cicolin

  • Stereo-EEG in children

    M. Cossu;F. Cardinale;L. Castana;L. Nobili

  • Cerebral Angiography for Multimodal Surgical Planning in Epilepsy Surgery: Description of a New Three-Dimensional Technique and Literature Review

    Francesco Cardinale;Guglielmo Pero;Luca Quilici;Mariangela Piano

  • Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: intracerebral recordings of paroxysmal motor attacks with increasing complexity.

    Lino Nobili;Stefano Francione;Roberto Mai;Laura Tassi

  • Multi-trajectories automatic planner for StereoElectroEncephaloGraphy (SEEG)

    E. De Momi;C. Caborni;F. Cardinale;G. Casaceli

  • Clinical features of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy in relation to the seizure-onset zone: A review of 135 surgically treated cases

    Steve A. Gibbs;Paola Proserpio;Stefano Francione;Roberto Mai

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Cardinale
Francesco Cardinale University of Parma
Massimo Cossu
Massimo Cossu University of Sassari
Stefano Francione
Stefano Francione University of Milan
Laura Tassi
Laura Tassi University of Bologna
Lino Nobili
Lino Nobili University of Genoa
Roberto Mai
Roberto Mai University of Milan
Giorgio Lo Russo
Giorgio Lo Russo Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda
Ivana Sartori
Ivana Sartori University of Pavia
Michele Terzaghi
Michele Terzaghi University of Pavia
Silvio Scarone
Silvio Scarone University of Milan

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