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

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

A comparison of GAD- and GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the first somatosensory area (SI) of the rat cortex

scientific article published in November 1988

A reticuloreticular commissural pathway in the rat thalamus

scientific article published in September 1994

Accuracy of pre-surgical fMRI confirmed by subsequent crossed aphasia

scientific article published on 19 November 2010

Adult-onset Rasmussen's encephalitis: anatomical-electrographic-clinical features of 7 Italian cases

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AlphaCaMKII and NMDA-receptor subunit expression in epileptogenic cortex from human periventricular nodular heterotopia

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Alterations of the neocortical GABAergic system in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy: neuronal damage and immunocytochemical changes in chronic epileptic rats

scientific article published in August 2002

Altered connections between neocortical and heterotopic areas in methylazoxymethanol-treated rat.

scientific article published on September 1998

Altered layer-specific gene expression in cortical samples from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

Altered spatial distribution of PV-cortical cells and dysmorphic neurons in the somatosensory cortex of BCNU-treated rat model of cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 10 December 2007

An international consensus classification for focal cortical dysplasias

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

An unusual behavioural and motor paroxysmal disorder caused by insulinoma-related hypoglycemia: a possible cause of epilepsy misdiagnosis.

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Antibodies against GluR3 peptides are not specific for Rasmussen's encephalitis but are also present in epilepsy patients with severe, early onset disease and intractable seizures

scientific article published in October 2002

Aquaporin 4 expression in control and epileptic human cerebral cortex

scientific article published on 08 October 2010

Architectural (Type IA) focal cortical dysplasia and parvalbumin immunostaining in temporal lobe epilepsy

scientific article published in June 2006

Assessment of human hippocampal developmental neuroanatomy by means of ex-vivo 7 T magnetic resonance imaging

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Automatic classification of epilepsy types using ontology-based and genetics-based machine learning

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Bitemporal epilepsy: A specific anatomo-electro-clinical phenotype in the temporal lobe epilepsy spectrum.

scientific article published on 26 July 2015

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

scientific article published on June 22, 2012

Brain stem projections in the pulvinar-lateralis posterior complex of the cat

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Brain stem-thalamus reciprocal influences in the cat.

scientific article published in April 1974

Branching pattern of corticothalamic projections from the somatosensory cortex during postnatal development in the rat

scientific article published in December 1995

Calcium-binding protein immunoreactivity in the piriform cortex of the guinea-pig: selective staining of subsets of non-GABAergic neurons by calretinin

scientific article published in March 1998

Calcium-dependent regulation of genetically determined spike and waves by the reticular thalamic nucleus of rats

scientific article published in January 1993

Calretinin immunoreactivity in the developing thalamus of the rat: a marker of early generated thalamic cells

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Caudo-rostral brain stem reciprocal influences in the cat.

scientific article published in November 1974

Cause matters: a neuropathological challenge to human epilepsies

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Combined 7-T MRI and histopathologic study of normal and dysplastic samples from patients with TLE

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Cortical dysplasia: electroclinical, imaging, and neuropathologic study of 13 patients

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Cortical malformations.

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Cortical relay neurons and interneurons in the N. ventralis posterolateralis of cats: a horseradish peroxidase, electron-microscopic, Golgi and immunocytochemical study.

scientific article published on July 1983

Cortical versus thalamic mechanisms underlying spike and wave discharges in GAERS.

scientific article published in December 1996

Development of cortical malformations in BCNU-treated rat, model of cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 3 December 2010

Diagnostic methods and treatment options for focal cortical dysplasia

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Different parvalbumin and GABA expression in human epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia.

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Different patterns of neuronal activation and neurodegeneration in the thalamus and cortex of epilepsy-resistant Proechimys rats versus Wistar rats after pilocarpine-induced protracted seizures

scientific article published on 12 February 2009

Disruption of cortical development as a consequence of repetitive pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in rats

scientific article published in January 2005

Distribution and signaling of TREM2/DAP12, the receptor system mutated in human polycystic lipomembraneous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy dementia

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Distribution of AMPA selective glutamate receptors in the thalamus of adult rats and during postnatal development. A light and ultrastructural immunocytochemical study

scientific article published in October 1994

Distribution of GABA(B) receptor protein in somatosensory cortex and thalamus of adult rats and during postnatal development

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Distribution of calbindin and parvalbumin in the developing somatosensory cortex and its primordium in the rat: an immunocytochemical study

scientific article published in October 1992

Dysplastic neocortex and subcortical heterotopias in methylazoxymethanol-treated rats: an intracellular study of identified pyramidal neurones.

scientific article published in May 1998

Early post-operative convulsive status epilepticus in a patient with drug-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and type I focal cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

Effect of diffusion-sensitizing gradient timings on the exponential, biexponential and diffusional kurtosis model parameters: in-vivo measurements in the rat thalamus

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

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

scientific article published on 23 December 2004

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

scientific article published in September 2012

Electrophysiological characteristics of morphologically identified reticular thalamic neurons from rat slices.

scientific article published in November 1988

Engagement of the medial temporal lobe in verbal and nonverbal memory: assessment with functional MR imaging in healthy subjects

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Enrichment of glutamate immunoreactivity in lemniscal terminals in the ventropostero lateral thalamic nucleus of the rat: an immunogold and WGA-HRP study

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Epilepsies associated with hippocampal sclerosis

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Epilepsy and NREM-parasomnia: a complex and reciprocal relationship.

scientific article published on 28 January 2012

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

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Excitatory amino acids mediate responses elicited in vitro by stimulation of cortical afferents to reticularis thalami neurons of the rat.

scientific article published in January 1989

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

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Expression of layer-specific markers in the adult neocortex of BCNU-Treated rat, a model of cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 10 January 2009

Focal Cortical Dysplasias: clinical implication of neuropathological classification systems.

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Focal cortical dysplasia type IIa and IIb: MRI aspects in 118 cases proven by histopathology

scientific article published on June 14, 2012

Functional MRI in malformations of cortical development: activation of dysplastic tissue and functional reorganization

scientific article published in July 2008

GABA immunoreactivity in the thalamic reticular nucleus of the rat. A light and electron microscopical study

scientific article published in December 1986

GABAA receptor impairment in the genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS): an immunocytochemical and receptor binding autoradiographic study

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GABAA-receptor immunoreactivity in the rat dorsal thalamus: an ultrastructural investigation.

scientific article published in August 1993

GABAergic interneurons and neuropil of the intralaminar thalamus: an immunohistochemical study in the rat and the cat, with notes in the monkey.

scientific article published in January 1991

GABAergic interneurons in the somatosensory thalamus of the guinea-pig: a light and ultrastructural immunocytochemical investigation

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GABAergic neurons are present in the dorsal column nuclei but not in the ventroposterior complex of rats

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Genesis of heterotopia in BCNU model of cortical dysplasia, detected by means of in utero electroporation

scientific article published on 14 November 2013

Glutamate, aspartate and co-localization with calbindin in the medial thalamus An immunohistochemical study in the rat

scientific article published on June 1, 1997

Gold nanoparticles protected by fluorinated ligands for 19F MRI.

scientific article published in October 2013

Good interobserver and intraobserver agreement in the evaluation of the new ILAE classification of focal cortical dysplasias.

scientific article published on 29 May 2012

Health Technology Assessment report on the presurgical evaluation and surgical treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy

scientific article published on October 2013

Hemispherotomy and functional hemispherectomy: indications and outcome.

scientific article published in November 2009

Heterotopic reelin in human nodular heterotopia: a neuropathological study

scientific article published in December 2012

Identification of the Epileptogenic Zone from Stereo-EEG Signals: A Connectivity-Graph Theory Approach.

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Immunoadsorption for the treatment of narcolepsy with cataplexy

scientific article published on 5 December 2008

Immunocytochemical investigation on dysplastic human tissue from epileptic patients

scientific article published in September 1998

Immunohistochemical study of six cases of Taylor's type focal cortical dysplasia: correlation with electroclinical data.

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In situ labeling of apoptotic cell death in the cerebral cortex and thalamus of rats during development

scientific article published in December 1995

In vivo DTI tractography of the rat brain: an atlas of the main tracts in Paxinos space with histological comparison.

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

In vivo detection of cortical abnormalities in BCNU-treated rats, model of cortical dysplasia, using manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

International consensus classification of hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy: a Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

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International recommendation for a comprehensive neuropathologic workup of epilepsy surgery brain tissue: A consensus Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

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Joubert syndrome with bilateral polymicrogyria: clinical and neuropathological findings in two brothers.

scientific article published in July 2009

Layer-specific gene expression in epileptogenic type II focal cortical dysplasia: normal-looking neurons reveal the presence of a hidden laminar organization

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Layer-specific genes reveal a rudimentary laminar pattern in human nodular heterotopia

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Layer-specific immunocytochemical localization of GABA(B)R1a and GABA(B)R1b receptors in the rat piriform cortex

scientific article published on April 2000

Long-term outcome after limited cortical resections in two cases of adult-onset Rasmussen encephalitis

scientific article published on 04 April 2014

Malformations of cortical development

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Malformations of cortical development and epilepsies: neuropathological findings with emphasis on focal cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 08 September 2009

Microanatomy of the dysplastic neocortex from epileptic patients

scientific article published on 17 November 2004

Modification of GABA(B1) and GABA(B2) receptor subunits in the somatosensory cerebral cortex and thalamus of rats with absence seizures (GAERS).

scientific article published in June 2003

Morphological organization of somatosensory cortex in Otx1(-/-) mice

scientific article published in January 2002

Multisensory convergence and interaction in the pulvinar-lateralis posterior complex of the cat's thalamus

scientific article published on 01 August 1980

Neocortical and hippocampal changes after multiple pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in rats.

scientific article published in May 2005

Neuronal migration disorders and epilepsy: a morphological analysis of three surgically treated patients.

scientific article published on December 1996

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

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Norman-Roberts syndrome: characterization of the phenotype in early fetal life

scientific article published on June 2007

Oculomotor disorders in Huntington's chorea

scientific article published on July 1, 1979

Optimization of rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement (RARE) pulse sequence parameters for ¹⁹F-MRI studies

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Overview of presurgical assessment and surgical treatment of epilepsy from the Italian League Against Epilepsy.

scientific article published on October 2013

Partial Directed Coherence estimated on Stereo-EEG signals in patients with Taylor's type focal cortical dysplasia

scientific article published in January 2010

Pathologic characteristics of the cortical dysplasias

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Perineuronal nets: past and present

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Periventricular nodular heterotopia: classification, epileptic history, and genesis of epileptic discharges

scientific article published in January 2006

Postnatal development of GABA-immunoreactive terminals in the reticular and ventrobasal nuclei of the rat thalamus: a light and electron microscopic study

scientific article published on January 1997

Postnatal development of calbindin and parvalbumin immunoreactivity in the thalamus of the rat.

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Potentially epileptogenic dysfunction of cortical NMDA- and GABA-mediated neurotransmission in Otx1-/- mice.

scientific article published on October 2001

Prenatal development of calbindin immunoreactivity in the dorsal thalamus of the rat.

scientific article published in January 1992

Preoperative language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) predicts peri-ictal, pre- and post-operative language performance: An fMRI study.

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Primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) and isolated partial seizures in adolescence. A case report

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Rapidly fatal late-onset status epilepticus due to occult bi-frontal cortical dysplasia. A case report.

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Rasmussen’s encephalitis: update on pathogenesis and treatment

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Reelin and human nodular heterotopia

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

SII-projecting neurons in the rat thalamus: a single- and double-retrograde-tracing study

scientific article published in January 1987

Severe microcephaly with polynodular heterotopia: a high-field MRI and neuropathological case study

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

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

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Sleep breathing disorders in 40 Italian patients with Myotonic dystrophy type 1.

scientific article published on 3 December 2011

Study of the Excitability Cycle of the Blink Reflex in Huntington’s Chorea

scientific article published on January 1, 1976

Subcortical nodular heterotopia: a functional MRI and somatosensory evoked potentials study.

scientific article published in October 2004

Supratentorial cavernous angiomas and epileptic seizures: preoperative course and postoperative outcome

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

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

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

The clinicopathologic spectrum of focal cortical dysplasias: a consensus classification proposed by an ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Diagnostic Methods Commission

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The international consensus classification for hippocampal sclerosis: an important step towards accurate prognosis

scientific article published in September 2013

The intrinsic organization of the ventroposterolateral nucleus and related reticular thalamic nucleus of the rat: a double-labeling ultrastructural investigation with gamma-aminobutyric acid immunogold staining and lectin-conjugated horseradish pero

scientific article published in January 1988

Theory of mind and epilepsy: what clinical implications?

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

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

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

Tractographic reconstruction protocol optimization in the rat brain in-vivo: towards a normal atlas.

scientific article published on January 2011

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

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

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

scientific article published on 8 October 2015

Ultra-High-Field Targeted Imaging of Focal Cortical Dysplasia: The Intracortical Black Line Sign in Type IIb

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Ultrastructural characterization of the postnatal development of the thalamic ventrobasal and reticular nuclei in the rat.

scientific article published in April 1996

Ultrastructural features of the isolated guinea-pig brain maintained in vitro by arterial perfusion

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Ultrastructural immunolocalization of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in the dorsal thalamus of rat

scientific article published on 01 January 1995