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Marina de Tommaso is affiliated with the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy and has a body of research spanning medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, pathology and forensic medicine, and physiology.

Their primary research topics include migraine and headache studies, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, trigeminal neuralgia and treatments, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and neurological disorders and treatments.

Recent publications by Marina de Tommaso include:

  • Pathophysiological Bases of Comorbidity in Migraine (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Investigating the Effects of COVID-19 Quarantine in Migraine: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study From the Italian National Headache Registry (RICe) (2020, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • The puzzle of fibromyalgia between central sensitization syndrome and small fiber neuropathy: a narrative review on neurophysiological and morphological evidence (2022, Neurological Sciences)
  • Peripheral and central nervous system correlates in fibromyalgia (2020, European Journal of Pain)
  • Mutual interaction between motor cortex activation and pain in fibromyalgia: EEG-fNIRS study (2020, PLoS ONE)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Marina de Tommaso include Marianna Delussi, Katia Ricci, Livio Clemente, Eleonora Gentile, and Eleonora Vecchio.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as Brain Sciences, Neurological Sciences, Cephalalgia, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Best Publications

  • Altered processing of sensory stimuli in patients with migraine.

    Marina de Tommaso;Anna Ambrosini;Filippo Brighina;Gianluca Coppola

  • Identification of genetic variants associated with Huntington's disease progression: a genome-wide association study

    Davina J Hensman Moss;Antonio F Pardiñas;Douglas Langbehn;Kitty Lo

  • Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation as acute therapy for migraine: The randomized PRESTO study

    Cristina Tassorelli;Licia Grazzi;Marina de Tommaso;Giulia Pierangeli

  • Neuromodulation of chronic headaches: position statement from the European Headache Federation

    Paolo Martelletti;Rigmor H Jensen;Andrea Antal;Roberto Arcioni

  • Citalopram as treatment of depression in patients with epilepsy.

    Luigi M Specchio;Alfonso Iudice;Nicola Specchio;Angela La Neve

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during capsaicin-induced pain: modulatory effects on motor cortex excitability

    Brigida Fierro;Marina De Tommaso;Francesca Giglia;Giuseppe Giglia

  • Laser-evoked potentials habituation in fibromyalgia.

    Marina de Tommaso;Antonio Federici;Roberto Santostasi;Rita Calabrese

  • Modulation of pain perception by transcranial magnetic stimulation of left prefrontal cortex.

    Filippo Brighina;Marina De Tommaso;Francesca Giglia;Simona Scalia

  • Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials and Phase Synchronization in Migraine Patients

    L. Angelini;M. De Tommaso;M. Guido;K. Hu

  • Experimental pain processing in individuals with cognitive impairment: current state of the science

    Ruth Defrin;Martina Amanzio;Marina de Tommaso;Violeta Dimova

  • Clinical features of headache patients with fibromyalgia comorbidity.

    Marina de Tommaso;Antonio Federici;Claudia Serpino;Eleonora Vecchio

  • Chronic Pain in the Elderly with Cognitive Decline: A Narrative Review

    Luca Cravello;Simona Di Santo;Giustino Varrassi;Dario Benincasa

  • Sleep features and central sensitization symptoms in primary headache patients

    Marina de Tommaso;Marianna Delussi;Eleonora Vecchio;Vittorio Sciruicchio

  • Abnormal brain processing of cutaneous pain in patients with chronic migraine.

    Marina de Tommaso;Massimiliano Valeriani;Marco Guido;Giuseppe Libro

  • Lack of habituation of nociceptive evoked responses and pain sensitivity during migraine attack.

    Marina de Tommaso;Luciana Lo sito;Olimpia Di fruscolo;Michele Sardaro

  • Pathophysiological Bases of Comorbidity in Migraine.

    Claudia Altamura;Ilenia Corbelli;Marina de Tommaso;Cherubino Di Lorenzo

  • Changes in cortical processing of pain in chronic migraine.

    Marina de Tommaso;Luciana Losito;Olimpia Difruscolo;Giuseppe Libro

  • Update on laser-evoked potential findings in fibromyalgia patients in light of clinical and skin biopsy features

    Marina de Tommaso;Maria Nolano;Florenzo Iannone;Eleonora Vecchio

  • Habituation of single CO2 laser-evoked responses during interictal phase of migraine.

    M. de Tommaso;G. Libro;M. Guido;L. Losito

  • Heat pain thresholds and cerebral event-related potentials following painful CO2 laser stimulation in chronic tension-type headache.

    Marina de Tommaso;Giuseppe Libro;Marco Guido;Vittorio Sciruicchio

  • Altered processing of sensory stimuli in patients with migraine.

    Filippo Brighina;Gianluca Coppola;Daniele Marinazzo;Sebastiano Stramaglia

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Livrea
Paolo Livrea University of Bari Aldo Moro
Giulio E. Lancioni
Giulio E. Lancioni University of Bari Aldo Moro
Mark F. O’Reilly
Mark F. O’Reilly The University of Texas at Austin
Filippo Brighina
Filippo Brighina University of Palermo
Daniele Marinazzo
Daniele Marinazzo Ghent University
Jeff Sigafoos
Jeff Sigafoos Victoria University of Wellington
Luigi Maria Specchio
Luigi Maria Specchio University of Foggia
Nicola Specchio
Nicola Specchio Boston Children's Hospital
Francesco Pierelli
Francesco Pierelli Sapienza University of Rome
Ruth Defrin
Ruth Defrin Tel Aviv University

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