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Gianluca Ficca
Researcher at Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
Publications - 65
Citations - 1914
Gianluca Ficca is an academic researcher from Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli. The author has contributed to research in topics: Non-rapid eye movement sleep & Sleep in non-human animals. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 58 publications receiving 1644 citations. Previous affiliations of Gianluca Ficca include University of Naples Federico II & University of Florence.
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Diurnal variation in spontaneous eye-blink rate.
Giuseppe Barbato,Gianluca Ficca,Giovanni Muscettola,Mariateresa Fichele,Michele Beatrice,Franco Rinaldi +5 more
TL;DR: The daily pattern of spontaneous eye-blink rate, a non-invasive peripheral measure of central dopamine activity, was investigated in 24 healthy subjects and a significant increase was found at the evening time point, suggestive of a late evening increase ofcentral dopamine activity.
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Naps, cognition and performance
TL;DR: This review will specifically explore the newly developed experimental daytime split-sleep schedules and their effects on recovery, compared with those deriving from a single consolidated sleep episode of equal duration.
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Morning recall of verbal material depends on prior sleep organization
TL;DR: The hypothesis that sleep organization, i.e. the regular occurrence of NREM-REM cycles more than sleep states per se, may be crucial for the retention of verbal material presented before sleep is put forward.
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Awakening from sleep.
Torbjörn Åkerstedt,Michel Billiard,Michael H. Bonnet,Gianluca Ficca,Lucile Garma,Maurizio Mariotti,Piero Salzarulo,Hartmut Schulz +7 more
TL;DR: Clinical contributions will examine two main sleep disorders: insomnia and hypersomnia and the experimental data which provide in the human suggestions on the regulation of awakening are discussed, mainly those concerning sleep architecture and homeostatic/circadian factors.
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What in sleep is for memory.
Gianluca Ficca,Piero Salzarulo +1 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that NREM and REM are complementary for memory processes during sleep, thanks to their close interaction within the NREM-REM cycle, is presented and experimental data are discussed which prove the critical role of the sleep cycle for the morning recall of verbal material.