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Silvana Franceschetti

Silvana Franceschetti

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D-Index
65
Citations
12888
World Ranking
3160
National Ranking
124

Overview

Silvana Franceschetti is affiliated with the Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta in Italy. Their research activity spans multiple areas of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to neurological disorders, particularly epilepsy.

Their published work includes contributions in several prominent scientific venues, with frequent publications found in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsia, Epilepsia Open, and Brain. These venues highlight both clinical and genetic research aspects of neurology and epilepsy.

Key research topics addressed by Franceschetti cover:

  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Their core fields of study include medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as neuroscience, with genetics and neurology as primary subfields. Additional focus areas include cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and rheumatology.

Frequent collaborators in Franceschetti's research network include Laura Canafoglia, Ferruccio Panzica, Elisa Visani, Davide Rossi Sebastiano, and Tiziana Granata, indicating a significant level of teamwork and interdisciplinary research integration.

Representative recent publications by Franceschetti include:

  • GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in SCN8A-related disorders reveal prognostic and therapeutic implications, 2021, Brain
  • Progressive myoclonus epilepsies-Residual unsolved cases have marked genetic heterogeneity including dolichol-dependent protein glycosylation pathway genes, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Advances in genetic testing and optimization of clinical management in children and adults with epilepsy, 2020, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
  • Identifying the epileptogenic zone by four non-invasive imaging techniques versus stereo-EEG in MRI-negative pre-surgery epilepsy patients, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology

Best Publications

  • Strikingly Different Clinicopathological Phenotypes Determined by Progranulin-Mutation Dosage

    Katherine R. Smith;Katherine R. Smith;John Damiano;Silvana Franceschetti;Stirling Carpenter

  • Seizure control and treatment in pregnancy: Observations from the EURAP epilepsy pregnancy registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;D. Battino;E. Bonizzoni;J. Craig

  • A recurrent de novo mutation in KCNC1 causes progressive myoclonus epilepsy

    Mikko Muona;Samuel F. Berkovic;Leanne M. Dibbens;Karen L. Oliver

  • Identification of an Nav1.1 sodium channel (SCN1A) loss-of-function mutation associated with familial simple febrile seizures

    Massimo Mantegazza;Antonio Gambardella;Raffaella Rusconi;Emanuele Schiavon

  • Unstable minisatellite expansion causing recessively inherited myoclonus epilepsy, EPM1

    Kimmo Virtaneva;Elena D'Amato;Jinmin Miao;Marjaleena Koskiniemi

  • Influence of surgery and antiepileptic drugs on seizures symptomatic of cerebral tumours.

    S. Franceschetti;S. Binelli;M. Casazza;S. Lodrini

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

    Giulia Varotto;Laura Tassi;Silvana Franceschetti;Roberto Spreafico

  • Epileptic phenotypes associated with mitochondrial disorders

    L. Canafoglia;Silvana Franceschetti;C. Antozzi;F. Carrara

  • hERG1 channels are overexpressed in glioblastoma multiforme and modulate VEGF secretion in glioblastoma cell lines

    A Masi;A Becchetti;R Restano-Cassulini;S Polvani

  • Kufs Disease, the Major Adult Form of Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, Caused by Mutations in CLN6

    Todor Arsov;Katherine R Smith;John Anthony Damiano;Silvana Franceschetti

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

    Giorgio Battaglia;Luisa Chiapparini;Silvana Franceschetti;Elena Freri

  • Intellectual and language findings and their relationship to EEG characteristics in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.

    Daria Riva;Chiara Vago;Silvana Franceschetti;Chiara Pantaleoni

  • Cellular biology of epileptogenesis.

    Giuliano Avanzini;Silvana Franceschetti

  • Cathepsin F mutations cause Type B Kufs disease, an adult-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

    Katherine R. Smith;Hans Henrik M Dahl;Laura Canafoglia;Eva Andermann

  • Prenatal methylazoxymethanol treatment in rats produces brain abnormalities with morphological similarities to human developmental brain dysgeneses.

    Claudia Colacitti;Giulio Sancini;Silvia DeBiasi;Silvana Franceschetti

  • Intronic ATTTC repeat expansions in STARD7 in familial adult myoclonic epilepsy linked to chromosome 2

    Mark A. Corbett;Thessa Kroes;Liana Veneziano;Mark F. Bennett;Mark F. Bennett

  • Theory of mind in frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy: cognitive and neural aspects.

    Anna Rita Giovagnoli;Silvana Franceschetti;Fabiola Reati;Annalisa Parente

  • Effects in Neocortical Neurons of Mutations of the Nav1.2 Na+ Channel causing Benign Familial Neonatal-Infantile Seizures

    Paolo Scalmani;Raffaella Rusconi;Elena Armatura;Federico Zara

  • Self-limited hyperexcitability: functional effect of a familial hemiplegic migraine mutation of the Nav1.1 (SCN1A) Na+ channel

    Sandrine Cestèle;Paolo Scalmani;Raffaella Rusconi;Benedetta Terragni

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in SCN8A-related disorders reveal prognostic and therapeutic implications.

    Katrine M Johannesen;Yuanyuan Liu;Mahmoud Koko;Cathrine E Gjerulfsen

  • Block of Glutamate-Glutamine Cycle Between Astrocytes and Neurons Inhibits Epileptiform Activity in Hippocampus

    Alberto Bacci;Giulio Sancini;Claudia Verderio;Simona Armano

  • Activity-dependent phosphorylation of Ser187 is required for SNAP-25-negative modulation of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels

    Davide Pozzi;Steven Condliffe;Yuri Bozzi;Maia Chikhladze

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuliano Avanzini
Giuliano Avanzini Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Tiziana Granata
Tiziana Granata Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Antonio Gambardella
Antonio Gambardella Magna Graecia University
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa
Federico Zara
Federico Zara University of Genoa
Roberto Michelucci
Roberto Michelucci University of Bologna
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Edoardo Ferlazzo
Edoardo Ferlazzo Magna Graecia University
Angelo Labate
Angelo Labate Magna Graecia University
Roberto Spreafico
Roberto Spreafico Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

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