List of works - Pasquale Montagna

A 52-week open-label study of the long-term safety of ropinirole in patients with restless legs syndrome

scientific article

A case of fatal familial insomnia in Africa

scientific article published on 14 June 2009

A quantitative statistical analysis of the submentalis muscle EMG amplitude during sleep in normal controls and patients with REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published in March 2008

Abnormal medial thalamic metabolism in patients with idiopathic restless legs syndrome.

scientific article

Abnormal sleep-cardiovascular system interaction in narcolepsy with cataplexy: effects of hypocretin deficiency in humans

scientific article

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with ragged-red fibers

scientific article published on March 2008

Arousal elicits exaggerated inhibition of sympathetic nerve activity in phobic syncope patients

scientific article published on 29 March 2007

Association of restless legs syndrome with nocturnal eating: a case-control study

scientific article published in April 2009

Augmentation of restless legs syndrome with long-term tramadol treatment

Automatic slow eye movement (SEM) detection of sleep onset in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS): comparison between multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) and maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT).

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

Autonomic arousals in sleep related breathing disorders: a link between daytime somnolence and hypertension?

scientific article published in July 2009

Autosomal dominant early-onset cortical myoclonus, photic-induced myoclonus, and epilepsy in a large pedigree

scientific article published in October 2006

Behavioural and neurophysiological correlates of human cataplexy: a video-polygraphic study

scientific article published on December 2009

Body mass index-independent metabolic alterations in narcolepsy with cataplexy.

scientific article

Cataplexy features in childhood narcolepsy

scientific article published on April 2008

Catathrenia (nocturnal groaning): what is it?

scientific article

Cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin-1 levels during the active period of cluster headache

scientific article published on 28 March 2011

Comorbidity between headache and epilepsy in a pediatric headache center

scientific article

Continuous motor unit activity syndromes: a video-polysomnographic study

scientific article published on 7 October 2005

Daytime sleepiness and neural cardiac modulation in sleep-related breathing disorders

scientific article published on 20 May 2008

Daytime sympathetic hyperactivity in OSAS is related to excessive daytime sleepiness

scientific article published in September 2007

Detection of sleep onset by analysis of slow eye movements: a preliminary study of MSLT recordings

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Diagnostic accuracy of a structured interview for nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (SINFLE): a proposal for developing diagnostic criteria

scientific article published on 3 December 2011

Different periodicity and time structure of leg movements during sleep in narcolepsy/cataplexy and restless legs syndrome

scientific article

Different sleep onset criteria at the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT): an additional marker to differentiate central nervous system (CNS) hypersomnias

scientific article published in March 2011

Diffusion-weighted brain imaging study of patients with clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson's disease

scientific article

Does the prion protein gene 129 codon polymorphism influence sleep? Evidence from a fatal familial insomnia kindred

scientific article published in December 2002

Effect on sleep of posterior hypothalamus stimulation in cluster headache

scientific article

Emotional information processing in patients with narcolepsy: a psychophysiologic investigation

scientific article

Endozepines in recurrent stupor

scientific article

Excessive daytime sleepiness and levodopa in Parkinson's disease: polygraphic, placebo-controlled monitoring

scientific article

Excessive daytime sleepiness and subjective sleep quality in patients with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a case-control study

scientific article published in January 2006

Excessive fragmentary hypnic myoclonus: clinical and neurophysiological findings

scientific article published in January 2002

Familial and sporadic fatal insomnia

scientific article (publication date: March 2003)

Family history for chronic headache and drug overuse as a risk factor for headache chronification

scientific article published in March 2009

Family-based association study of the restless legs syndrome loci 2 and 3 in a European population

scientific article

Fatal familial insomnia: a model disease in sleep physiopathology

scientific article

Genetics of restless legs syndrome (RLS): State-of-the-art and future directions

scientific article published on January 2007

Group I nonreciprocal inhibition in restless legs syndrome secondary to chronic renal failure

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

High frequency of migraine-only patients negative for the 3243 A>G tRNALeu mtDNA mutation in two MELAS families.

scientific article

Hypocretin deficiency in narcolepsy with cataplexy is associated with a normal body core temperature modulation

scientific article

Idiopathic central sleep apnoea syndrome treated with zolpidem

scientific article

Impaired cortical and autonomic arousal during sleep in multiple system atrophy

scientific article published on 25 September 2007

Increased frequency of arousal parasomnias in families with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a common mechanism?

scientific article

Increased prevalence of sleep disorders in chronic headache: a case-control study

scientific article published on October 2010

Insomnia cycling with a 42-day infradian period: evidence for two uncoupled circadian oscillators?

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Interobserver reliability of ICSD-R minimal diagnostic criteria for the parasomnias

scientific article published on 23 March 2005

Interobserver reliability of video recording in the diagnosis of nocturnal frontal lobe seizures

scientific article published in May 2007

Intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin treatment in recent onset childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy.

scientific article published on 3 September 2008

Investigation of an LDLR gene polymorphism (19p13.2) in susceptibility to migraine without aura

scientific article published in September 2003

Lack of association between five serotonin metabolism-related genes and medication overuse headache

scientific article

Loss of Nuclear Activity of the FBXO7 Protein in Patients with Parkinsonian-Pyramidal Syndrome (PARK15) ⬇️

scientific article published on February 11, 2011

Magnetic resonance diagnostic markers in clinically sporadic prion disease: a combined brain magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy study.

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Medico-legal assessment of disability in narcolepsy: an interobserver reliability study

scientific article published in March 2008

Melanopsin retinal ganglion cells are resistant to neurodegeneration in mitochondrial optic neuropathies

scientific article

Melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells: implications for human diseases

scientific article

Migraine genetics

scientific article

Migraine: a genetic disease?

scientific article published on May 2008

Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy: evidence of mitochondrial DNA depletion in the small intestine

scientific article

Morvan chorea and agrypnia excitata: when video-polysomnographic recording guides the diagnosis

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Movement disorders in sleep: guidelines for differentiating epileptic from non-epileptic motor phenomena arising from sleep

scientific article

NREM sleep alterations in narcolepsy/cataplexy

scientific article published on 10 October 2005

Narcolepsy with cataplexy associated with holoprosencephaly misdiagnosed as epileptic drop attacks

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Narcolepsy with cataplexy associated with nocturnal compulsive behaviors: a case-control study

scientific article

Narcoleptic-like hypersomnia and inverted circadian rhythm of body core temperature after traumatic brain injury involving the hypothalamus

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a wide spectrum of seizures

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: new pathophysiological interpretations

scientific article published in December 2011

Novel parkin mutations detected in patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease

scientific article published in April 2005

OPA1 mutations induce mitochondrial DNA instability and optic atrophy 'plus' phenotypes

scientific article

Oneiric stupor: the peculiar behaviour of agrypnia excitata

scientific article published in December 2011

Paroxysmal bipedal activity during syncope related to carotid body tumor

scientific article published on 6 May 2009

Pelvic movements as rhythmic motor manifestation associated with restless legs syndrome

scientific article published in January 2003

Physiologic autonomic arousal heralds motor manifestations of seizures in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: implications for pathophysiology

scientific article

Polymorphisms of the SCN1A gene in children and adolescents with primary headache and idiopathic or cryptogenic epilepsy: is there a linkage? ⬇️

scientific article published on June 29, 2011

Polysomnographic and pharmacokinetic findings in levodopa-induced augmentation of restless legs syndrome

Polysomnographic study of sleeplessness and oneiricisms in the alcohol withdrawal syndrome

scientific article

Pontine hyperperfusion in sporadic hyperekplexia

scientific article

Propriospinal myoclonus: a motor phenomenon found in restless legs syndrome different from periodic limb movements during sleep

scientific article

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of brain metabolism in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome before and after continuous positive airway pressure treatment.

scientific article

Quality of life, eating and mood disorders in menstrual migraine: a case-control study

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Restless legs syndrome enhances cardiovascular risk and mortality in patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing long-term haemodialysis treatment

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Restless legs syndrome is frequent in narcolepsy with cataplexy patients

scientific article

Rhythmic movements and sleep paralysis in narcolepsy with cataplexy: a video-polygraphic study

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Searching for a marker of REM sleep behavior disorder: submentalis muscle EMG amplitude analysis during sleep in patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy.

scientific article published on October 2008

Self management of fatal familial insomnia. Part 1: what is FFI?

scientific article

Self-help group and medication overuse headache: preliminary data

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Self-management of fatal familial insomnia. Part 2: case report

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Sleep and temperature rhythms in two sisters with P102L Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) disease

scientific article published on 11 June 2008

Sleep disorders in multiple system atrophy: a correlative video-polysomnographic study

scientific article published in January 2004

Sleep-dependent changes in the coupling between heart period and blood pressure in human subjects

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Sleep-related non epileptic motor disorders

scientific article published in July 2004

Sleep-related stridor due to dystonic vocal cord motion and neurogenic tachypnea/tachycardia in multiple system atrophy

scientific article published in April 2007

Slow eye movements distribution during nocturnal sleep

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Status dissociatus after surgery for tegmental ponto-mesencephalic cavernoma: a state-dependent disorder of motor control during sleep

scientific article

Status dissociatus evolving from REM sleep behaviour disorder in multiple system atrophy

scientific article published on 8 April 2008

Suggestive evidence for linkage for restless legs syndrome on chromosome 19p13.

scientific article published on 10 January 2008

Sympathetic and cardiovascular activity during cataplexy in narcolepsy

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Sympathetic skin response: basic mechanisms and clinical applications

scientific article

The First Historically Reported Italian Family with FTD/ALS Teaches a Lesson on C9orf72 RE: Clinical Heterogeneity and Oligogenic Inheritance.

scientific article published in January 2018

The circadian rhythm of body core temperature (CRT) is normal in patient with congenital generalized anhidrosis

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

The official World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) standards for recording and scoring periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) and wakefulness (PLMW) developed in collaboration with a task force from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Stud

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The primary headaches as a reflection of genetic darwinian adaptive behavioral responses

scientific article published on 21 December 2009

The primary headaches: genetics, epigenetics and a behavioural genetic model

scientific article published on 15 March 2008

The wide clinical spectrum of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

scientific article published in August 2000

Tobacco habits in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Treatment of restless legs syndrome: an evidence-based review and implications for clinical practice

scientific article

X-inactivation patterns in female Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy patients do not support a strong X-linked determinant

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

List of works by Pasquale Montagna

A 52-week open-label study of the long-term safety of ropinirole in patients with restless legs syndrome

A case of fatal familial insomnia in Africa

A quantitative statistical analysis of the submentalis muscle EMG amplitude during sleep in normal controls and patients with REM sleep behavior disorder

Abnormal medial thalamic metabolism in patients with idiopathic restless legs syndrome.

Abnormal sleep-cardiovascular system interaction in narcolepsy with cataplexy: effects of hypocretin deficiency in humans

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with ragged-red fibers

Arousal elicits exaggerated inhibition of sympathetic nerve activity in phobic syncope patients

Association of restless legs syndrome with nocturnal eating: a case-control study

Augmentation of restless legs syndrome with long-term tramadol treatment

Automatic slow eye movement (SEM) detection of sleep onset in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS): comparison between multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) and maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT).

Autonomic arousals in sleep related breathing disorders: a link between daytime somnolence and hypertension?

Autosomal dominant early-onset cortical myoclonus, photic-induced myoclonus, and epilepsy in a large pedigree

Behavioural and neurophysiological correlates of human cataplexy: a video-polygraphic study

Body mass index-independent metabolic alterations in narcolepsy with cataplexy.

Cataplexy features in childhood narcolepsy

Catathrenia (nocturnal groaning): what is it?

Cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin-1 levels during the active period of cluster headache

Comorbidity between headache and epilepsy in a pediatric headache center

Continuous motor unit activity syndromes: a video-polysomnographic study

Daytime sleepiness and neural cardiac modulation in sleep-related breathing disorders

Daytime sympathetic hyperactivity in OSAS is related to excessive daytime sleepiness

Detection of sleep onset by analysis of slow eye movements: a preliminary study of MSLT recordings

Diagnostic accuracy of a structured interview for nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (SINFLE): a proposal for developing diagnostic criteria

Different periodicity and time structure of leg movements during sleep in narcolepsy/cataplexy and restless legs syndrome

Different sleep onset criteria at the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT): an additional marker to differentiate central nervous system (CNS) hypersomnias

Diffusion-weighted brain imaging study of patients with clinical diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson's disease

Does the prion protein gene 129 codon polymorphism influence sleep? Evidence from a fatal familial insomnia kindred

Effect on sleep of posterior hypothalamus stimulation in cluster headache

Emotional information processing in patients with narcolepsy: a psychophysiologic investigation

Endozepines in recurrent stupor

Excessive daytime sleepiness and levodopa in Parkinson's disease: polygraphic, placebo-controlled monitoring

Excessive daytime sleepiness and subjective sleep quality in patients with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a case-control study

Excessive fragmentary hypnic myoclonus: clinical and neurophysiological findings

Familial and sporadic fatal insomnia

Family history for chronic headache and drug overuse as a risk factor for headache chronification

Family-based association study of the restless legs syndrome loci 2 and 3 in a European population

Fatal familial insomnia: a model disease in sleep physiopathology

Genetics of restless legs syndrome (RLS): State-of-the-art and future directions

Group I nonreciprocal inhibition in restless legs syndrome secondary to chronic renal failure

High frequency of migraine-only patients negative for the 3243 A>G tRNALeu mtDNA mutation in two MELAS families.

Hypocretin deficiency in narcolepsy with cataplexy is associated with a normal body core temperature modulation

Idiopathic central sleep apnoea syndrome treated with zolpidem

Impaired cortical and autonomic arousal during sleep in multiple system atrophy

Increased frequency of arousal parasomnias in families with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a common mechanism?

Increased prevalence of sleep disorders in chronic headache: a case-control study

Insomnia cycling with a 42-day infradian period: evidence for two uncoupled circadian oscillators?

Interobserver reliability of ICSD-R minimal diagnostic criteria for the parasomnias

Interobserver reliability of video recording in the diagnosis of nocturnal frontal lobe seizures

Intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin treatment in recent onset childhood narcolepsy with cataplexy.

Investigation of an LDLR gene polymorphism (19p13.2) in susceptibility to migraine without aura

Lack of association between five serotonin metabolism-related genes and medication overuse headache

Loss of Nuclear Activity of the FBXO7 Protein in Patients with Parkinsonian-Pyramidal Syndrome (PARK15) ⬇️

Magnetic resonance diagnostic markers in clinically sporadic prion disease: a combined brain magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy study.

Medico-legal assessment of disability in narcolepsy: an interobserver reliability study

Melanopsin retinal ganglion cells are resistant to neurodegeneration in mitochondrial optic neuropathies

Melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells: implications for human diseases

Migraine genetics

Migraine: a genetic disease?

Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy: evidence of mitochondrial DNA depletion in the small intestine

Morvan chorea and agrypnia excitata: when video-polysomnographic recording guides the diagnosis

Movement disorders in sleep: guidelines for differentiating epileptic from non-epileptic motor phenomena arising from sleep

NREM sleep alterations in narcolepsy/cataplexy

Narcolepsy with cataplexy associated with holoprosencephaly misdiagnosed as epileptic drop attacks

Narcolepsy with cataplexy associated with nocturnal compulsive behaviors: a case-control study

Narcoleptic-like hypersomnia and inverted circadian rhythm of body core temperature after traumatic brain injury involving the hypothalamus

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: a wide spectrum of seizures

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: new pathophysiological interpretations

Novel parkin mutations detected in patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease

OPA1 mutations induce mitochondrial DNA instability and optic atrophy 'plus' phenotypes

Oneiric stupor: the peculiar behaviour of agrypnia excitata

Paroxysmal bipedal activity during syncope related to carotid body tumor

Pelvic movements as rhythmic motor manifestation associated with restless legs syndrome

Physiologic autonomic arousal heralds motor manifestations of seizures in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy: implications for pathophysiology

Polymorphisms of the SCN1A gene in children and adolescents with primary headache and idiopathic or cryptogenic epilepsy: is there a linkage? ⬇️

Polysomnographic and pharmacokinetic findings in levodopa-induced augmentation of restless legs syndrome

Polysomnographic study of sleeplessness and oneiricisms in the alcohol withdrawal syndrome

Pontine hyperperfusion in sporadic hyperekplexia

Propriospinal myoclonus: a motor phenomenon found in restless legs syndrome different from periodic limb movements during sleep

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of brain metabolism in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome before and after continuous positive airway pressure treatment.