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List of works by Marcello Massimini

A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior

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A [17F]-fluoromethane PET/TMS study of effective connectivity

scientific article published in August 2004

A direct demonstration of cortical LTP in humans: a combined TMS/EEG study

scientific article published in December 2005

A neural mass model of interconnected regions simulates rhythm propagation observed via TMS-EEG.

scientific article published on 11 May 2011

A perturbational approach for evaluating the brain's capacity for consciousness

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Arm immobilization causes cortical plastic changes and locally decreases sleep slow wave activity

scientific article published in September 2006

Assessing consciousness in coma and related states using transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with electroencephalography.

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

Assessing the effects of electroconvulsive therapy on cortical excitability by means of transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Augmentative repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in drug-resistant bipolar depression.

scientific article published in February 2009

Bistability breaks-off deterministic responses to intracortical stimulation during non-REM sleep.

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Brain Connectivity in Disorders of Consciousness

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

Breakdown in cortical effective connectivity during midazolam-induced loss of consciousness

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Breakdown of cortical effective connectivity during sleep

scientific article published in September 2005

Characterizing brain states with Granger causality.

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Circadian dynamics in measures of cortical excitation and inhibition balance.

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Circadian regulation of human cortical excitability

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Combining Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Electroencephalography to Study Human Cortical Excitability and Effective Connectivity

scientific article published in 2011

Computational Study of Rhythm Propagation Induced by TMS Stimuli in Different Brain Regions

Consciousness Regained: Disentangling Mechanisms, Brain Systems, and Behavioral Responses

scientific article published in November 2017

Consciousness and Complexity during Unresponsiveness Induced by Propofol, Xenon, and Ketamine

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Consensus Paper: Probing Homeostatic Plasticity of Human Cortex With Non-invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation

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Consensus Paper: Probing Homeostatic Plasticity of Human Cortex With Non-invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation.

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Consensus paper: combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging

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Cortical reactivity and effective connectivity during REM sleep in humans

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Directed information transfer in scalp electroencephalographic recordings: insights on disorders of consciousness

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

EEG responses to TMS are sensitive to changes in the perturbation parameters and repeatable over time

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EEG slow (approximately 1 Hz) waves are associated with nonstationarity of thalamo-cortical sensory processing in the sleeping human.

scientific article published in March 2003

Electrophysiological correlates of behavioural changes in vigilance in vegetative state and minimally conscious state

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Erratum to “Consensus Paper: Probing Homeostatic Plasticity of Human Cortex With Non-invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation”. Brain Stimulation 8 (2015) 442–454

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Fluid boundaries between wake and sleep: experimental evidence from Stereo-EEG recordings

scientific article published on September 2014

General indices to characterize the electrical response of the cerebral cortex to TMS.

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Hippocampal sleep spindles preceding neocortical sleep onset in humans

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Human cortical excitability increases with time awake

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Multivariate autoregressive models with exogenous inputs for intracerebral responses to direct electrical stimulation of the human brain

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Natural frequencies of human corticothalamic circuits

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New insights into Alzheimer's disease progression: a combined TMS and structural MRI study

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

On the cerebral origin of EEG responses to TMS: insights from severe cortical lesions

scientific article published on 18 October 2014

Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state.

scientific article published in May 2011

Propofol anesthesia and sleep: a high-density EEG study

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Propofol-induced unresponsiveness is associated with impaired feedforward connectivity in cortical hierarchy

Quantifying cortical EEG responses to TMS in (un)consciousness

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Recovery of cortical effective connectivity and recovery of consciousness in vegetative patients

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

Reduced evoked gamma oscillations in the frontal cortex in schizophrenia patients: a TMS/EEG study

scientific article published on 15 May 2008

Reduced mediodorsal thalamic volume and prefrontal cortical spindle activity in schizophrenia

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Reduced natural oscillatory frequency of frontal thalamocortical circuits in schizophrenia

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Reduced sleep spindle activity in schizophrenia patients

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation dissociates working memory manipulation from retention functions in the prefrontal, but not posterior parietal, cortex

scientific article published in October 2006

Response to Comment on "Preserved Feedforward But Impaired Top-Down Processes in the Vegetative State"

scientific article published in Science

Shared reduction of oscillatory natural frequencies in bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Sleep and Consciousness

Sleep, Consciousness and the Brain: A Perturbational Approach

Sleep-like cortical dynamics during wakefulness and their network effects following brain injury

scientific article published on 22 August 2024

Sleepy dialogues between cortex and hippocampus: who talks to whom?

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Slow EEG rhythms and inter-hemispheric synchronization across sleep and wakefulness in the human hippocampus

scientific article published on 8 December 2011

Slow waves, synaptic plasticity and information processing: insights from transcranial magnetic stimulation and high-density EEG experiments

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Source modeling sleep slow waves

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Sparse multivariate autoregressive models with exogenous inputs for modeling intracerebral responses to direct electrical stimulation of the human brain

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Stimulus set meaningfulness and neurophysiological differentiation: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

TMS-induced cortical potentiation during wakefulness locally increases slow wave activity during sleep

scientific article published on 7 March 2007

The Cortical Topography of Local Sleep

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

The PredictAD project: development of novel biomarkers and analysis software for early diagnosis of the Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on April 2013

The sleep slow oscillation as a traveling wave.

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The slow-wave components of the cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) have a role in sleep-related learning processes

scientific article published on 23 December 2007

Theoretical approaches to the diagnosis of altered states of consciousness

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Time-frequency spectral analysis of TMS-evoked EEG oscillations by means of Hilbert-Huang transform

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with high-density EEG in altered states of consciousness

scientific article published on January 2014

Transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked EEG/cortical potentials in physiological and pathological aging

scientific article published in August 2011

Triggering sleep slow waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Measure Cerebral Connectivity in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness

Using brain stimulation to create thoughts, retrieve and alter memories, and measure consciousness – a discussion of recent research

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Why does consciousness fade in early sleep?

scientific article published in January 2008