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Eugenio Scarnati
Researcher at University of L'Aquila
Publications - 85
Citations - 5376
Eugenio Scarnati is an academic researcher from University of L'Aquila. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deep brain stimulation & Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 85 publications receiving 5131 citations. Previous affiliations of Eugenio Scarnati include University of Rome Tor Vergata & University of Fribourg.
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Neuronal activity in monkey ventral striatum related to the expectation of reward
TL;DR: The prevalence of activations related to the expectation of reward suggests that ventral striatal neurons have access to central representations of reward and thereby participate in the processing of information underlying the motivational control of goal-directed behavior.
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Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine and subthalamic nuclei in severe Parkinson's disease
Alessandro Stefani,Andres M. Lozano,Antonella Peppe,Paolo Stanzione,Salvatore Galati,Domenicantonio Tropepi,Mariangela Pierantozzi,Livia Brusa,Eugenio Scarnati,Paolo Mazzone +9 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate that, in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, PPN-DBS associated with standard STN- DBS may be useful in improving gait and in optimizing the dopamine-mediated ON-state, particularly in those whose response to STN only DBS has deteriorated over time.
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Implantation of human pedunculopontine nucleus: A safe and clinically relevant target in Parkinson's disease
Paolo Mazzone,Andres M. Lozano,Paolo Stanzione,Salvatore Galati,Eugenio Scarnati,Antonella Peppe,Alessandro Stefani +6 more
TL;DR: The first surgical exploration and implantation of deep brain stimulating electrodes of the peduncolopontine nucleus area in two Parkinson's disease patients to examine the safety and the potential benefit of chronic electrical stimulation at this site are reported.
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Responses to reward in monkey dorsal and ventral striatum.
TL;DR: Investigation of activity of single striatal neurons of monkeys in response to reward delivered for performing in a go-nogo task demonstrates that neurons of dorsal and particularly ventral striatum are involved in processing information concerning the attribution of primary reward.
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Neuronal activity in monkey striatum related to the expectation of predictable environmental events.
TL;DR: How the activity of 193 task-related neurons increased in advance of at least 1 component of the task, namely the instruction cue, the trigger stimulus, or the delivery of liquid reward is described.