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Overview

Laura Tassi is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their academic contributions are primarily situated within the domains of Medicine and Neuroscience, with focused subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Neurology.

Their research topics notably cover:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Among Tassi's frequent collaborators are Roberta Di Giacomo, Veronica Pelliccia, Francesco Cardinale, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, and Massimo Cossu.

The most common venues where their work is published include Epilepsia, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Tassi are:

  • "Comparative Effectiveness of Stereotactic Electroencephalography Versus Subdural Grids in Epilepsy Surgery," 2021, Annals of Neurology
  • "Dendritic pathology, spine loss and synaptic reorganization in human cortex from epilepsy patients," 2020, Brain
  • "Focal lesions induce large-scale percolation of sleep-like intracerebral activity in awake humans," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in children and adults: A multicenter study," 2020, Epilepsia
  • "Safety and efficacy of propranolol for treatment of familial cerebral cavernous malformations (Treat_CCM): a randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, phase 2 pilot trial," 2022, The Lancet Neurology

Best Publications

  • The clinicopathologic spectrum of focal cortical dysplasias: A consensus classification proposed by an ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Diagnostic Methods Commission

    Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Focal cortical dysplasia: neuropathological subtypes, EEG, neuroimaging and surgical outcome.

    L. Tassi;N. Colombo;R. Garbelli;S. Francione

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

    Massimo Cossu;Francesco Cardinale;Laura Castana;Alberto Citterio

  • 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

  • Focal cortical dysplasias: MR imaging, histopathologic, and clinical correlations in surgically treated patients with epilepsy.

    Nadia Colombo;Laura Tassi;Carlo Galli;Alberto Citterio

  • Diagnostic utility of invasive EEG for epilepsy surgery: Indications, modalities, and techniques

    Prasanna Jayakar;Jean Gotman;A. Simon Harvey;André Palmini

  • Development and validation of nomograms to provide individualised predictions of seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery: a retrospective analysis.

    Lara Jehi;Ruta Yardi;Kevin Chagin;Laura Tassi

  • The temporopolar cortex plays a pivotal role in temporal lobe seizures

    Stéphan Chabardès;Philippe Kahane;Lorella Minotti;Laura Tassi

  • Evidence of dissociated arousal states during NREM parasomnia from an intracerebral neurophysiological study.

    Michele Terzaghi;Ivana Sartori;Laura Tassi;Giuseppe Didato

  • Diagnostic methods and treatment options for focal cortical dysplasia.

    Renzo Guerrini;Michael Duchowny;Prasanna Jayakar;Pavel Krsek

  • Electroclinical, MRI and neuropathological study of 10 patients with nodular heterotopia, with surgical outcomes

    L. Tassi;N. Colombo;M. Cossu;R. Mai

  • Epileptogenic networks of type II focal cortical dysplasia: A stereo-EEG study

    Giulia Varotto;Laura Tassi;Silvana Franceschetti;Roberto Spreafico

  • Diagnostic imaging in 13 cases of Rasmussen's encephalitis: can early MRI suggest the diagnosis?

    L. Chiapparini;T. Granata;L. Farina;E. Ciceri

  • Stereo-electroencephalography methodology: advantages and limits

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

  • 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

  • Type I focal cortical dysplasia: surgical outcome is related to histopathology

    Laura Tassi;Rita Garbelli;Nadia Colombo;Manuela Bramerio

  • Surgical treatment of drug-resistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

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

  • Periventricular nodular heterotopia: Classification, epileptic history, and genesis of epileptic discharges

    Giorgio Battaglia;Luisa Chiapparini;Silvana Franceschetti;Elena Freri

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Mai
Roberto Mai University of Milan
Stefano Francione
Stefano Francione University of Milan
Massimo Cossu
Massimo Cossu University of Sassari
Roberto Spreafico
Roberto Spreafico Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Francesco Cardinale
Francesco Cardinale University of Parma
Giorgio Lo Russo
Giorgio Lo Russo Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda
Lino Nobili
Lino Nobili University of Genoa
Rita Garbelli
Rita Garbelli Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Ivana Sartori
Ivana Sartori University of Pavia
Laura Castana
Laura Castana ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda

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