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Overview

Rita Garbelli is affiliated with the Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of medicine, with a particular emphasis on epilepsy and neurological disorders.

The main fields of study addressed in Garbelli's work include:

  • Medicine

Within medicine, their subfields of expertise encompass:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Genetics
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects related to neurological conditions and treatment modalities, including:

  • Epilepsy Research and Treatment
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Frequent coauthors contributing to Garbelli's work are:

  • Marco de Curtis
  • Francesco Deleo
  • Laura Tassi
  • L Rossini
  • Dalia De Santis

Key venues for publication include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Epilepsia
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Neurology
  • The Lancet Neurology

Significant papers featuring Garbelli's research are:

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission (2022, Epilepsia)
  • Toward a better definition of focal cortical dysplasia: An iterative histopathological and genetic agreement trial (2021, Epilepsia)
  • Dendritic pathology, spine loss and synaptic reorganization in human cortex from epilepsy patients (2020, Brain)
  • A hypothesis for the role of axon demyelination in seizure generation (2021, Epilepsia)

Best Publications

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

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

  • The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission

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  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

    Herm J Lamberink;Willem M Otte;Ingmar Blümcke;Kees P J Braun

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

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

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

    Laura Tassi;Rita Garbelli;Nadia Colombo;Manuela Bramerio

  • Inhibitory circuits in human dysplastic tissue.

    R. Spreafico;L. Tassi;N. Colombo;M. Bramerio

  • Temporal lobe epilepsy: neuropathological and clinical correlations in 243 surgically treated patients

    Laura Tassi;Alessandra Meroni;Francesco Deleo;Flavio Villani

  • Electroclinical, MRI and surgical outcomes in 100 epileptic patients with type II FCD.

    Laura Tassi;Rita Garbelli;Nadia Colombo;Manuela Bramerio

  • Taylor's cortical dysplasia: a confocal and ultrastructural immunohistochemical study.

    Rita Garbelli;Claudio Munari;Silvia De Biasi;Laura Vitellaro-Zuccarello

  • Blurring in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical, high-field imaging and ultrastructural study.

    Rita Garbelli;Gloria Milesi;Valentina Medici;Flavio Villani

  • Cortical dysplasia : Electroclinical, imaging, and neuropathologic study of 13 patients

    Laura Tassi;Basile Pasquier;Lorella Minotti;Rita Garbelli

  • 7T MRI features in control human hippocampus and hippocampal sclerosis: an ex vivo study with histologic correlations.

    Roland Coras;Gloria Milesi;Ileana Zucca;Alfonso Mastropietro

  • Microanatomy of the dysplastic neocortex from epileptic patients

    L. Alonso-Nanclares;R. Garbelli;R. G. Sola;J. Pastor

  • Seizure progression and inflammatory mediators promote pericytosis and pericyte-microglia clustering at the cerebrovasculature.

    Wendy Klement;Rita Garbelli;Emma Zub;Laura Rossini

  • Toward a better definition of focal cortical dysplasia: An iterative histopathological and genetic agreement trial.

    Ingmar Blümcke;Ingmar Blümcke;Roland Coras;Robyn M Busch;Marcia Morita-Sherman

  • Immunocytochemical investigation on dysplastic human tissue from epileptic patients.

    Roberto Spreafico;Basile Pasquier;Lorella Minotti;Rita Garbelli

  • Type II focal cortical dysplasia: Ex vivo 7T magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities and histopathological comparisons.

    Ileana Zucca;Gloria Milesi;Valentina Medici;Laura Tassi

  • Short- and long-term surgical outcomes of temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis: Relationships with neuropathology.

    Francesco Deleo;Rita Garbelli;Gloria Milesi;Francesca Gozzo

  • Dendritic pathology, spine loss and synaptic reorganization in human cortex from epilepsy patients.

    Laura Rossini;Dalia De Santis;Roberta Rosa Mauceri;Chiara Tesoriero

  • Aquaporin 4 expression in control and epileptic human cerebral cortex

    Valentina Medici;Carolina Frassoni;Laura Tassi;Roberto Spreafico

  • Expression of connexin 43 in the human epileptic and drug-resistant cerebral cortex.

    R. Garbelli;C. Frassoni;D. F. Condorelli;A. Trovato Salinaro

  • A neuropathological, stereo-EEG, and MRI study of subcortical band heterotopia.

    R. Mai;L. Tassi;M. Cossu;S. Francione

  • Nodular heterotopia: a neuropathological study of 24 patients undergoing surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy.

    Alessandra Meroni;Carlo Galli;Manuela Bramerio;Laura Tassi

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Spreafico
Roberto Spreafico Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Laura Tassi
Laura Tassi University of Bologna
Flavio Villani
Flavio Villani Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Carolina Frassoni
Carolina Frassoni Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Francesco Cardinale
Francesco Cardinale University of Parma
Eleonora Aronica
Eleonora Aronica University of Amsterdam
Massimo Cossu
Massimo Cossu University of Sassari
Roberto Mai
Roberto Mai University of Milan
Marco de Curtis
Marco de Curtis Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Giorgio Lo Russo
Giorgio Lo Russo Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda

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