M
Massimiliano Valeriani
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 204
Citations - 4342
Massimiliano Valeriani is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Somatosensory evoked potential & Migraine. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 201 publications receiving 3839 citations. Previous affiliations of Massimiliano Valeriani include Aalborg University & Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Long-lasting modulation of human motor cortex following prolonged transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) of forearm muscles: evidence of reciprocal inhibition and facilitation
Michele Tinazzi,Stefano Zarattini,Massimiliano Valeriani,Silvia Romito,Simona Farina,Giuseppe Moretto,Nicola Smania,Antonio Fiaschi,Giovanni Abbruzzese +8 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that TENS of forearm muscles can induce transient reciprocal inhibitory and facilitatory changes in corticomotoneuronal excitability of forearm flexor and extensor muscles lasting several minutes, which might eventually lead to practical applications in rehabilitation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sources of cortical responses to painful CO(2) laser skin stimulation of the hand and foot in the human brain.
Massimiliano Valeriani,Domenico Restuccia,Carmen Barba,Domenica Le Pera,Pietro Attilio Tonali,François Mauguière +5 more
TL;DR: The dipolar model previously proposed for the hand stimulation LEPs can also satisfactorily explain the LEP distribution obtained after foot stimulation and showed that the co-ordinates of the two earliest activated dipoles were compatible with source locations in the upper bank of the Sylvian fissure on both sides.
Journal ArticleDOI
Clinical usefulness of laser evoked potentials
TL;DR: This review of the literature demonstrates that LEP recording has become mandatory for the functional assessment of patients with hypoalgesia or neuropathic pain.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dipolar modelling of the scalp evoked potentials to painful contact heat stimulation of the human skin
Massimiliano Valeriani,Domenica Le Pera,David M. Niddam,Andrew C. N. Chen,Lars Arendt-Nielsen +4 more
TL;DR: The strong similarity of the cerebral dipoles activated by contact heat stimuli and by laser pulses suggests that only nociceptive inputs are involved in the scalp painful CHEP building, and can be useful for clinical examination of the nOCiceptive system.
Journal ArticleDOI
Abnormal brain processing of cutaneous pain in patients with chronic migraine.
Marina de Tommaso,Massimiliano Valeriani,Marco Guido,Giuseppe Libro,Luigi Maria Specchio,Pietro Attilio Tonali,Francomichele Puca +6 more
TL;DR: An abnormal cortical processing of nociceptive input in CM patients, which could lead to the chronic state of pain, is suggested.