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Stefano Francione

Stefano Francione

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
7610
World Ranking
5184
National Ranking
252

Overview

Stefano Francione is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and has a research portfolio concentrated primarily in neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans various subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics of Stefano Francione's research include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neurological disorders and treatments

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Francione are:

  • Ivana Sartori
  • Fabricē Bartolomei
  • Anca Nica
  • Philippe Kahane
  • Laura Tassi

Stefano Francione has published multiple papers in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Epileptic Disorders
  • Brain
  • Epilepsia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers by Francione include:

  • "A brain atlas of axonal and synaptic delays based on modelling of cortico-cortical evoked potentials," 2021, Brain
  • "Focal lesions induce large-scale percolation of sleep-like intracerebral activity in awake humans," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Electrical stimulation for seizure induction during SEEG exploration: a useful predictor of postoperative seizure recurrence?", 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Could the 2017 ILAE and the four-dimensional epilepsy classifications be merged to a new "Integrated Epilepsy Classification"?", 2020, Seizure
  • "Temporal lobe epilepsy: A never-ending story," 2021, Epilepsy & Behavior

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Surgical treatment of drug-resistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

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

  • Stereoelectroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the epileptogenic zone: a retrospective study on 89 cases

    Massimo Cossu;Dalila Fuschillo;Giuseppe Casaceli;Veronica Pelliccia

  • Probabilistic functional tractography of the human cortex revisited.

    Lena Trebaul;Pierre Deman;Viateur Tuyisenge;Maciej Jedynak

  • Insular‐opercular seizures manifesting with sleep‐related paroxysmal motor behaviors: A stereo‐EEG study

    Paola Proserpio;Massimo Cossu;Stefano Francione;Laura Tassi

  • Sleep-related hyperkinetic seizures of temporal lobe origin.

    L. Nobili;M. Cossu;R. Mai;L. Tassi

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

    Laura Tassi;Rita Garbelli;Nadia Colombo;Manuela Bramerio

  • Mirth and laughter elicited by electrical stimulation of the human anterior cingulate cortex

    Fausto Caruana;Fausto Caruana;Pietro Avanzini;Francesca Gozzo;Stefano Francione

  • Neuroethological approach to frontolimbic epileptic seizures and parasomnias: The same central pattern generators for the same behaviours.

    C. A. Tassinari;G. Cantalupo;B. Högl;P. Cortelli

  • Current standards of neuropsychological assessment in epilepsy surgery centers across Europe

    Viola Lara Vogt;Marja Äikiä;Antonio del Barrio;Paul Boon

  • Biomarkers of epileptogenic zone defined by quantified stereo-EEG analysis.

    Vadym Gnatkovsky;Marco de Curtis;Chiara Pastori;Francesco Cardinale

  • A brain atlas of axonal and synaptic delays based on modelling of cortico-cortical evoked potentials

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  • Stereo-EEG: Diagnostic and therapeutic tool for periventricular nodular heterotopia epilepsies.

    Laura Mirandola;Roberto F. Mai;Stefano Francione;Veronica Pelliccia

  • Features of somatosensory manifestations induced by intracranial electrical stimulations of the human insula

    Matteo Pugnaghi;Stefano Meletti;Laura Castana;Stefano Francione

  • Multimodal responses induced by cortical stimulation of the parietal lobe: a stereo-electroencephalography study

    Simona Balestrini;Stefano Francione;Roberto Mai;Laura Castana

  • Intracerebral Low Frequency Electrical Stimulation: a New Tool for the Definition of the “Epileptogenic Area”?

    Claudio Munari;P. Kahane;L. Tassi;S. Francione

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Tassi
Laura Tassi University of Bologna
Roberto Mai
Roberto Mai University of Milan
Lino Nobili
Lino Nobili University of Genoa
Francesco Cardinale
Francesco Cardinale University of Parma
Massimo Cossu
Massimo Cossu University of Sassari
Giorgio Lo Russo
Giorgio Lo Russo Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda
Ivana Sartori
Ivana Sartori University of Pavia
Laura Castana
Laura Castana ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda
Elena Gardella
Elena Gardella University of Southern Denmark
Philippe Kahane
Philippe Kahane Grenoble Alpes University

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