10 results on '"Mazzone, Paolo"'
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2. Real‐world experience with the new Watchman FLX device: Data from two high‐volume Sicilian centers. The FLX‐iEST registry.
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Vizzari, Giampiero, Grasso, Carmelo, Sardone, Andrea, Mazzone, Paolo, Laterra, Giulia, Frazzetto, Marco, Sacchetta, Giorgio, Micari, Antonio, Tamburino, Corrado, and Contarini, Marco
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- 2022
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3. Impellent impeller—Switching intra‐aortic balloon pump to IMPELLA‐CP after ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction and refractory cardiogenic shock.
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Contarini, Marco, Costa, Francesco, Garcia Ruiz, Maria Victoria, Scalise, Renato F. M., De Velli, Giovanni, Murè, Paola, Mazzone, Paolo, Sacchetta, Giorgio, and Andò, Giuseppe
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INTRA-aortic balloon counterpulsation ,CARDIOGENIC shock ,MYOCARDIAL infarction ,HEART assist devices ,IMPELLERS - Abstract
Cardiogenic shock is a dreadful complication of myocardial infarction. Despite widespread use and availability, intra‐aortic balloon pump (IABP) does not reduce mortality nor improves outcomes. Advanced mechanical circulatory support with IMPELLA system can substantially support hemodynamics and improve short‐term prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Mechanisms of action underlying the efficacy of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease: central role of disease severity.
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Stefani, Alessandro, Cerroni, Rocco, Mazzone, Paolo, Liguori, Claudio, Di Giovanni, Giuseppe, Pierantozzi, Mariangela, and Galati, Salvatore
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SUBTHALAMIC nucleus ,DEEP brain stimulation ,PARKINSON'S disease ,BIOCHEMICAL mechanism of action ,GLOBUS pallidus ,SUBSTANTIA nigra - Abstract
Despite consensus on some neurophysiological hallmarks of the Parkinsonian state (such as beta) band increase) a single mechanism is unlikely to explain the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN). Most experimental evidence to date correlates with an extreme degree of nigral neurodegeneration and not with different stages of PD progression. It seems inappropriate to combine substantially different patients – newly diagnosed, early fluctuators or advanced dyskinetic individuals – within the same group. An efficacious STN‐DBS imposes a new activity pattern within brain circuits, favouring alpha‐ and gamma‐like neuronal discharge, and restores the thalamo‐cortical transmission pathway through axonal activation. In addition, stimulation via the dorsal contacts of the macro‐electrode may affect cortical activation antidromically. However, basal ganglia (BG) modulation remains cardinal for 'OFF'‐'ON' transition (as revealed by cGMP increase occurring during STN‐DBS in the substantia nigra pars reticulata and internal globus pallidus). New research promises to clarify to what extent STN‐DBS restores striato‐centric bidirectional plasticity, and whether non‐neuronal cellular actions (microglia, neurovascular) play a part. Future studies will assess whether extremely anticipated DBS or lesioning in selected patients are capable of providing neuroprotection to the synuclein‐mediated alterations of synaptic efficiency. This review addresses these open issues through the specific mechanisms prevailing in a given disease stage. In patients undergoing early protocol, alteration in endogenous transmitters and recovery of plasticity are concurrent players. In advanced stages, re‐modulation of endogenous band frequencies, disruption of pathological pattern and/or antidromic cortical activation are, likely, the prominent modes. This manuscript proposes a new perspective in interpreting the efficacy of STN‐DBS in PD patients. The main concept is that the burden of neurodegeneration and PD stage represent the major factors. Whereas rescuing neuroplasticity plus rebalancing of endogenous band frequencies are early players, instead, in advanced PD stages, antidromic impact on cortex and circuitry disruption exert major roles. The understanding of the specific mechanisms prevalent in any given subject is crucial for on‐going trials, either experimenting adaptive DBS or targeting young patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. Microcircuit mechanisms involved in paired associative stimulation-induced depression of corticospinal excitability.
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Weise, David, Mann, Jakob, Ridding, Michael, Eskandar, Kevin, Huss, Martin, Rumpf, Jost‐Julian, Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Mazzone, Paolo, Ranieri, Federico, and Classen, Joseph
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MOTOR cortex ,PYRAMIDAL tract ,NEURONS ,TRANSCRANIAL magnetic stimulation ,NERVOUS system - Abstract
Key points Repetitively pairing peripheral nerve stimulation with transcranial magnetic stimulation of the corresponding contralateral motor cortex at 10 ms (paired associative stimulation; PAS10) leads to centre-depressant effects on corticospinal excitability in a short time window., PAS10-induced centre-depressant effects are due to weakening of excitatory synapses between principal cortical neurons, but not those located on corticospinal neurons, or inhibitory synapses., Inhibitory interneurons are gate-keepers to producing centre-depressant PAS effects. The same mechanisms appear to govern PAS10-induced surround-facilitatory effects., We propose a model specifying the composition and laminar location of the involved microcircuit of PAS-induced plasticity that may enhance its utility as a model of spike-timing- dependent plasticity in humans., Abstract Synaptic weight changes induced by temporal correlations between the spikes of pre- and postsynaptic neurons are referred to as spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induces long-lasting effects on corticospinal excitability, if it is repetitively paired with stimulation of afferents from a corresponding contralateral hand region at short intervals (paired associative stimulation, PAS). PAS-induced plasticity has been linked with synaptic STDP. We aimed to investigate which elements of the cortical microcircuitry sustain and govern PAS-induced depression of corticospinal excitability in the target muscle representation (and enhancement of excitability in its functional surround). We show that the time window during which the interaction between both stimulus-induced cortical events leads to immediate post-interventional depression is short (<4.5 ms). The depressant PAS effects at the target representation were completely blocked by applying a subthreshold magnetic pulse 3 ms before the principal TMS pulse, even when the strength of the latter was adjusted to generate a motor-evoked potential of similar amplitude to that with the unconditioned magnetic pulse. Epidural recordings from the cervical cord of a patient showed that under this condition late TMS-evoked I-waves remain suppressed. When the intensity of the TMS component during PAS was lowered - sufficient to allow activation of inhibitory neurons, but insufficient to activate corticospinal neurons - excitability of short-latency intracortical inhibition remained unchanged. PAS-induced facilitation in the functional surround followed the same pattern as the centre-depressant effects. These findings may suggest that excitability-depressant PAS-induced effects are due to weakening of excitatory synapses between upper cortical layer principal neurons, but not those located on the corticospinal neuron, or inhibitory synapses. Inhibitory interneurons involved in short-latency intracortical inhibition are gate-keepers to producing centre-depressant/surround-facilitatory PAS effects. Based on these and earlier findings we propose a model specifying the composition and laminar location of the involved microcircuit of PAS-induced plasticity that may enhance its utility as a model of STDP in humans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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6. Gamma activity and reactivity in human thalamic local field potentials.
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Kempf, Florian, Brücke, Christof, Salih, Farid, Trottenberg, Thomas, Kupsch, Andreas, Schneider, Gerd‐Helge, Doyle Gaynor, Louise M.F., Hoffmann, Karl‐Titus, Vesper, Jan, Wöhrle, Johannes, Altenmüller, Dirk‐Matthias, Krauss, Joachim K., Mazzone, Paolo, Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Yelnik, Jérôme, Kühn, Andrea A., and Brown, Peter
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PARKINSON'S disease ,BASAL ganglia ,BRAIN stimulation ,THALAMUS diseases ,BRAIN function localization - Abstract
Depth recordings in patients with Parkinson’s disease on dopaminergic therapy have revealed a tendency for oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia that is sharply tuned to frequencies of ∼70 Hz and increases with voluntary movement. It is unclear whether this activity is essentially physiological and whether it might be involved in arousal processes. Here we demonstrate an oscillatory activity with similar spectral characteristics and motor reactivity in the human thalamus. Depth signals were recorded in 29 patients in whom the ventral intermediate or centromedian nucleus were surgically targeted for deep brain stimulation. Thirteen patients with four different pathologies showed sharply tuned activity centred at ∼70 Hz in spectra of thalamic local field potential (LFP) recordings. This activity was modulated by movement and, critically, varied over the sleep–wake cycle, being suppressed during slow wave sleep and re-emergent during rapid eye movement sleep, which physiologically bears strong similarities with the waking state. It was enhanced by startle-eliciting stimuli, also consistent with modulation by arousal state. The link between this pattern of thalamic activity and that of similar frequency in the basal ganglia was strengthened by the finding that fast thalamic oscillations were lost in untreated parkinsonian patients, paralleling the behaviour of this activity in the basal ganglia. Furthermore, there was sharply tuned coherence between thalamic and pallidal LFP activity at ∼70 Hz in eight out of the 11 patients in whom globus pallidus and thalamus were simultaneously implanted. Subcortical oscillatory activity at ∼70 Hz may be involved in movement and arousal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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7. GPi-DBS in Huntington's disease: Results on motor function and cognition in a 72-year-old case.
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Fasano, Alfonso, Mazzone, Paolo, Piano, Carla, Quaranta, Davide, Soleti, Francesco, and Bentivoglio, Anna Rita
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- 2008
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8. High-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus modulates the activity of pedunculopontine neurons through direct activation of excitatory fibres as well as through indirect activation of inhibitory pallidal fibres in the rat.
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Florio, Tiziana, Scarnati, Eugenio, Confalone, Giuseppina, Minchella, Daniela, Galati, Salvatore, Stanzione, Paolo, Stefani, Alessandro, and Mazzone, Paolo
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PARKINSON'S disease ,DOPAMINERGIC neurons ,SUBSTANTIA nigra ,DOPAMINERGIC mechanisms ,LABORATORY rats ,NEUROSCIENCES - Abstract
Recent data suggest a potential role of pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) electrical stimulation in improving gait and posture in Parkinson's disease. Because the PPN receives fibres from the subthalamic nucleus (STN), we investigated the effects of STN-high-frequency stimulation (HFS) on PPN neuronal activity in intact rats and in rats bearing either an ibotenate lesion of the entopeduncular nucleus (EP) or a lesion of the substantia nigra (SN). The main response of PPN neurons to STN single-shock stimulations in the three experimental groups was a short latency (4.5 ± 2.1 ms) and brief (15.3 ± 6.5 ms) excitation. This response was maintained during 1–5 s of STN-HFS (130 Hz, 60 µs, 100–1000 µA). In EP-lesioned rats the percentage (75.0%) of PPN neurons showing a modulation of activity following STN-HFS was significantly higher compared with that observed in intact (39.7%) and in SN-lesioned rats (35.4%). Furthermore, in EP-lesioned rats the most frequent response of PPN neurons following STN-HFS was a 5–20 s excitation, which was present in 76.6% of responsive neurons in comparison to 15.4% and 9.1% of neurons responsive in intact and in 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats, respectively. Neurons responsive to STN-HFS in the three experimental groups showed either a sharp positively skewed distribution of interspike intervals or multisecond oscillations in autocorrelograms. The results support that STN-HFS modulates the PPN through a balance of excitatory and inhibitory influences, which may be independent from the dopaminergic nigral neurons. In the absence of inhibitory EP fibres, the direct excitatory influence exerted by the STN on the PPN appears to predominate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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9. Biochemical and electrophysiological changes of substantia nigra pars reticulata driven by subthalamic stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Galati, Salvatore, Mazzone, Paolo, Fedele, Ernesto, Pisani, Antonio, Peppe, Antonella, Pierantozzi, Mariangela, Brusa, Livia, Tropepi, Domenicantonio, Moschella, Vincenzo, Raiteri, Maurizio, Stanzione, Paolo, Bernardi, Giorgio, and Stefani, Alessandro
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BRAIN stimulation , *MICRODIALYSIS , *SUBSTANTIA nigra , *BASAL ganglia , *GUANOSINE triphosphatase , *BRAIN function localization - Abstract
To understand the events underlying the clinical efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), electrophysiological recordings and microdialysis evaluations were carried out in the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), one of the two basal ganglia (BG) nuclei targeted by STN output, in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Clinically effective STN-DBS caused a significant increase of the SNr firing rate. The poststimulus histogram (PSTH) showed an excitation peak at 1.92–3.85 ms after the STN stimulus. The spontaneous discharge of SNr neurons was driven at the frequency of the stimulation (130 Hz), as shown in the autocorrelograms (AutoCrl). The fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis showed a peak at 130 Hz, and a less pronounced second one at 260 Hz. Accordingly, in the distribution of the interspike intervals (ISIs), the mode was earlier, and skewness more asymmetric. Biochemically, the increased excitatory driving from the STN was reflected by a clear-cut increase in cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) levels in the SNr. These results indicate that the beneficial effect of DBS in PD patients is paralleled with a stimulus-synchronized activation of the STN target, SNr. Our findings suggest that, during STN-DBS, a critical change towards a high-frequency oscillatory discharge occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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10. Reciprocal interactions between oscillatory activities of different frequencies in the subthalamic region of patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Fogelson, Noa, Pogosyan, Alek, Kühn, Andrea A., Kupsch, Andreas, Van Bruggen, Gerard, Speelman, Hans, Tijssen, Marina, Quartarone, Angelo, Insola, Angelo, Mazzone, Paolo, Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo, Limousin, Patricia, and Brown, Peter
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PARKINSON'S disease ,BRAIN diseases ,PATIENTS ,DOPA ,CATECHOLAMINES ,EXTRAPYRAMIDAL disorders - Abstract
Synchronization of neuronal activity evident in the local field potential (LFP) recorded in the subthalamic region of patients with Parkinson's disease occurs at low frequencies (< 30 Hz) and, in some patients following treatment with levodopa, at high frequencies between 65 and 85 Hz. Here we investigate the functional relationship between these different activities by determining whether spontaneous fluctuations in their strength are correlated across time. To this end, we analysed recordings of LFPs from macroelectrodes inserted in the subthalamic area of 16 patients with Parkinson's disease, after treatment with anti-parkinsonian medication. Time-evolving autospectra of LFPs with significant 65–85 Hz peaks (from 21 sides) were computed and correlations between frequency components determined over time. LFP activity in the 5–32 Hz band was significantly negatively correlated with that in the 65–85 Hz band in data averaged across all 21 sides, as well as in 15 (71%) of the individual records. Negative correlations were relatively selective for interactions between these frequency bands and occurred over time epochs of as little as 40 s. They occurred about 50 min after levodopa and were recorded concurrently with contralateral levodopa-induced dyskinesias in all but four cases. Positive correlations were not seen between activities in the 5–32 Hz and 65–85 Hz bands. The spontaneous negative correlations suggest a reciprocal relationship between population synchrony in the high- and low-frequency ranges, and raise the possibility that spontaneous fluctuations in the balance between these activities may contribute to levodopa-induced dyskinesias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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