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Raffaella Franciotti

Raffaella Franciotti

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
3433
World Ranking
8882
National Ranking
492

Overview

Raffaella Franciotti is affiliated with the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy and has made contributions across multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine. Their research predominantly focuses on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, periodontics, and physiology, with a strong emphasis on brain connectivity and neurological disorders.

The main topics covered by Franciotti's work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Frequent publication venues where Franciotti's research appears include:

  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Movement Disorders
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Osteoporosis International

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Franciotti include:

  • Use of fractal analysis in dental images for osteoporosis detection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, Osteoporosis International)
  • Comparison of Machine Learning-based Approaches to Predict the Conversion to Alzheimer's Disease from Mild Cognitive Impairment (2023, Neuroscience)
  • Exploring the Connection between Porphyromonas gingivalis and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Pilot Quantitative Study on the Bacterium Abundance in Oral Cavity and the Amount of Antibodies in Serum (2021, Biomolecules)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Marco Onofrj
  • Laura Bonanni
  • Stefano L. Sensi
  • Mirella Russo
  • Dario Arnaldi

Within main fields of study, Franciotti's publications are distributed in:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Best Publications

  • Quantitative electroencephalogram utility in predicting conversion of mild cognitive impairment to dementia with Lewy bodies

    Laura Bonanni;Bernardo Perfetti;Stefania Bifolchetti;John Paul Taylor

  • Improving MEG source localizations: An automated method for complete artifact removal based on independent component analysis

    Dante Mantini;Raffaella Franciotti;Gian Luca Romani;Vittorio Pizzella

  • Default network is not hypoactive in dementia with fluctuating cognition: an Alzheimer disease/dementia with Lewy bodies comparison

    Raffaella Franciotti;Nicola Walter Falasca;Laura Bonanni;Laura Bonanni;Francesca Anzellotti

  • Abnormalities of cortical neural synchronization mechanisms in patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's and Lewy body diseases: an EEG study.

    Claudio Babiloni;Claudio Del Percio;Roberta Lizio;Giuseppe Noce

  • Topographic organization of the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices: comparison of fMRI and MEG findings

    C. Del Gratta;S. Della Penna;A. Ferretti;R. Franciotti

  • Visual Hallucinations in PD and Lewy body dementias: Old and new hypotheses

    M Onofrj;JP Taylor;D Monaco;R Franciotti

  • Cortical rhythms reactivity in AD, LBD and normal subjects: a quantitative MEG study.

    R. Franciotti;D. Iacono;S. Della Penna;V. Pizzella

  • Lateralization of Dichotic Speech Stimuli is Based on Specific Auditory Pathway Interactions: Neuromagnetic Evidence

    Stefania Della Penna;Alfredo Brancucci;Claudio Babiloni;Raffaella Franciotti

  • Thalamic Involvement in Fluctuating Cognition in Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Magnetic Resonance Evidences

    Stefano Delli Pizzi;Raffaella Franciotti;John-Paul Taylor;Astrid Thomas

  • Comparison between SI and SII responses as a function of stimulus intensity

    Kathya Torquati;Vittorio Pizzella;Stefania Della Penna;Raffaella Franciotti

  • Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Episodic Memory Related to Emotional Visual Stimuli

    Barbara Penolazzi;Alberto Di Domenico;Daniele Marzoli;Nicola Mammarella

  • Temporal dynamics of alpha and beta rhythms in human SI and SII after galvanic median nerve stimulation. A MEG study.

    S Della Penna;K Torquati;V Pizzella;C Babiloni

  • Default mode network links to visual hallucinations: A comparison between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy

    Raffaella Franciotti;Stefano Delli Pizzi;Bernardo Perfetti;Armando Tartaro

  • Abnormalities of resting-state functional cortical connectivity in patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's and Lewy body diseases: an EEG study

    Claudio Babiloni;Claudio Del Percio;Roberta Lizio;Giuseppe Noce

  • Structural Alteration of the Dorsal Visual Network in DLB Patients with Visual Hallucinations: A Cortical Thickness MRI Study

    Stefano Delli Pizzi;Raffaella Franciotti;Armando Tartaro;Massimo Caulo

  • Abnormalities of Resting State Cortical EEG Rhythms in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Diseases.

    Claudio Babiloni;Claudio Del Percio;Roberta Lizio;Giuseppe Noce

  • Functional cortical source connectivity of resting state electroencephalographic alpha rhythms shows similar abnormalities in patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

    Claudio Babiloni;Claudio Del Percio;Roberta Lizio;Giuseppe Noce

  • Revisiting P300 cognitive studies for dementia diagnosis: Early dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer disease (AD)

    L. Bonanni;R. Franciotti;V. Onofrj;F. Anzellotti

  • Abnormalities of Cortical Neural Synchronization Mechanisms in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases: An EEG Study.

    Claudio Babiloni;Claudio Del Percio;Roberta Lizio;Giuseppe Noce

  • Atrophy of hippocampal subfields and adjacent extrahippocampal structures in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease.

    Stefano Delli Pizzi;Raffaella Franciotti;Giovanna Bubbico;Astrid Thomas

  • EEG Markers of Dementia with Lewy Bodies: A Multicenter Cohort Study.

    Laura Bonanni;Raffaella Franciotti;Flavio Nobili;Milica G. Kramberger

  • Nociceptive and non-nociceptive sub-regions in the human secondary somatosensory cortex: An MEG study using fMRI constraints

    K. Torquati;V. Pizzella;C. Babiloni;C. Del Gratta

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Onofrj
Marco Onofrj University of Chieti-Pescara
Laura Bonanni
Laura Bonanni University of Chieti-Pescara
Claudio Babiloni
Claudio Babiloni Sapienza University of Rome
Vittorio Pizzella
Vittorio Pizzella University of Chieti-Pescara
Gian Luca Romani
Gian Luca Romani University of Chieti-Pescara
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
John-Paul Taylor
John-Paul Taylor Newcastle University
Dario Arnaldi
Dario Arnaldi University of Genoa
Antonio Ferretti
Antonio Ferretti University of Chieti-Pescara
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva

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