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  1. Article ; Online: Selective reorienting response of the left hemisphere to invalid visual targets in the right side of space: relevance for the spatial neglect syndrome.

    Dragone, Alessio / Lasaponara, Stefano / Silvetti, Massimo / Macaluso, Emiliano / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    2015  Volume 65, Page(s) 31–35

    MeSH term(s) Brain/pathology ; Brain Mapping ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Perceptual Disorders/diagnosis ; Perceptual Disorders/pathology ; Space Perception/physiology ; Visual Perception
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-04
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Letter ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 280622-8
    ISSN 1973-8102 ; 0010-9452
    ISSN (online) 1973-8102
    ISSN 0010-9452
    DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.009
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  2. Article ; Online: Expectancy modulates pupil size both during endogenous orienting and during re-orienting of spatial attention: A study with isoluminant stimuli.

    Lasaponara, Stefano / Fortunato, Gianfranco / Dragone, Alessio / Pellegrino, Michele / Marson, Fabio / Silvetti, Massimo / Pinto, Mario / D'Onofrio, Marianna / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    The European journal of neuroscience

    2019  Volume 50, Issue 5, Page(s) 2893–2904

    Abstract: We have recently demonstrated that when endogenous orienting of spatial attention is guided by central directional cues that reliably predict the position of lateral targets. Pupil Dilation (PDil) is higher as compared with directional cues that do not ... ...

    Abstract We have recently demonstrated that when endogenous orienting of spatial attention is guided by central directional cues that reliably predict the position of lateral targets. Pupil Dilation (PDil) is higher as compared with directional cues that do not predict target position. These findings were interpreted as reflecting different levels of Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic activity during endogenous orienting. In contrast to this, we were not able to highlight reliable differences between PDil responses to infrequent invalid targets that are associated with predictive cues and frequent invalid targets that are associated with non-predictive ones. These null findings might have been due to the spurious influence of transitory changes in luminance at the moment of target presentation or to the short time window used for the analysis of target-related changes in PDil. Here, we re-explored cue- and target-related changes in PDil using cue and target stimuli that were kept isoluminant to their background and long lasting cue and target periods for data recording and analysis. We fully replicate our previous cue-related results and, in addition, we demonstrate that infrequent invalid targets in the predictive experimental condition evoke larger PDil as compared with frequent ones. Analyses with Linear Mixed Models highlighted that both during the cue and target period, higher levels of PDil were associated with slower reaction times. These findings confirm that PDil is a reliable marker of the expectancy components of endogenous cue-related and exogenous target-related orienting of spatial attention.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Anticipation, Psychological/physiology ; Attention/physiology ; Cues ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Orientation, Spatial/physiology ; Photic Stimulation ; Pupil/physiology ; Reaction Time/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-01
    Publishing country France
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 645180-9
    ISSN 1460-9568 ; 0953-816X
    ISSN (online) 1460-9568
    ISSN 0953-816X
    DOI 10.1111/ejn.14391
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  3. Article: Association between time-related changes in routine blood morphological parameters and renal function after transcatheter aortic valve implantation - a preliminary study.

    Stelmark, Konrad / Zaher, Eli Adrian / Olasińska-Wiśniewska, Anna / Adesina, Michael / Dragone, Alicia / Isaac, Martha / Misterski, Marcin / Grygier, Marek / Puślecki, Mateusz / Lesiak, Maciej / Jemielity, Marek / Perek, Bartłomiej

    Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

    2021  Volume 18, Issue 3, Page(s) 152–158

    Abstract: Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) although minimally invasive is still accompanied by changes in blood morphological parameters, some of them linked to unfavorable outcomes.: Aim: To find any association between changes in ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) although minimally invasive is still accompanied by changes in blood morphological parameters, some of them linked to unfavorable outcomes.
    Aim: To find any association between changes in blood morphology reflecting an inflammatory response and acute kidney injury (AKI).
    Material and methods: This study involved 176 consecutive transfemoral TAVI patients with a mean age of 78.4 ±7.0 years. Serum creatinine concentration (CREA) and blood morphology were analyzed in the blood samples taken before the procedure, then approximately 1, 24, 48 and 72 hours after the procedure, and lastly at the time of discharge. Post-procedural maximal or minimal values (max/min) and max/min-to-bs ratio of the laboratory parameters were also calculated.
    Results: Leucocyte (WBC) and neutrophil (NEUT) counts increased significantly after the procedure whereas lymphocyte (LYMPH) counts declined markedly, reaching the highest or lowest values 24 hours after the procedure. A significant increase in neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) was observed. Platelet count (PLT) dropped to a minimum at 72 hours after TAVI but at discharge did not return to the admission level. TAVI was associated with a marked increase in CREA with a peak at 48 hours after the procedure (135.7 ±75.9 μM/l). Patients with AKI (
    Conclusions: TAVI is associated with significant changes in blood morphological parameters that reflect an inflammatory response. They are more pronounced among subjects with post-procedural AKI.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-05
    Publishing country Poland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2237053-5
    ISSN 1897-4252 ; 1731-5530
    ISSN (online) 1897-4252
    ISSN 1731-5530
    DOI 10.5114/kitp.2021.109368
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  4. Article ; Online: Expectancy modulates pupil size during endogenous orienting of spatial attention.

    Dragone, Alessio / Lasaponara, Stefano / Pinto, Mario / Rotondaro, Francesca / De Luca, Maria / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    2017  Volume 102, Page(s) 57–66

    Abstract: fMRI investigations in healthy humans have documented phasic changes in the level of activation of the right temporal-parietal junction (TPJ) during cued voluntary orienting of spatial attention. Cues that correctly predict the position of upcoming ... ...

    Abstract fMRI investigations in healthy humans have documented phasic changes in the level of activation of the right temporal-parietal junction (TPJ) during cued voluntary orienting of spatial attention. Cues that correctly predict the position of upcoming targets in the majority of trials, i.e., predictive cues, produce higher deactivation of the right TPJ as compared with non-predictive cues. Since the right TPJ is the recipient of noradrenergic (NE) innervation, it has been hypothesised that changes in the level of TPJ activity are matched with changes in the level of NE activity. Based on aforementioned fMRI findings, this might imply that orienting with predictive cues is matched with different levels of NE activity as compared with non-predictive cues. To test this hypothesis, we measured changes in pupil dilation, an indirect index of NE activity, during voluntary orienting of attention with highly predictive (80% validity) or non-predictive (50% validity) cues. In agreement with current interpretations of the tonic/phasic activity of the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrinic system (LC-NE), we found that the steady level of cue predictiveness that characterised both the predictive and non-predictive conditions caused, across consecutive blocks of trials, a progressive decrement in pupil dilation during the baseline-fixation period that anticipated the cue period. With predictive cues we observed increased pupil dilation as compared with non-predictive cues. In addition, the relative reduction in pupil size observed with non-predictive cues increased as a function of cue-duration. These results show that changes in the predictiveness of cues that guide voluntary orienting of spatial attention are matched with changes in pupil dilation and, putatively, with corresponding changes in LC-NE activity.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Attention/physiology ; Cues ; Female ; Functional Laterality/physiology ; Humans ; Locus Coeruleus/physiology ; Male ; Orientation, Spatial/physiology ; Pupil/physiology ; Reaction Time/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-10-03
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 280622-8
    ISSN 1973-8102 ; 0010-9452
    ISSN (online) 1973-8102
    ISSN 0010-9452
    DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.011
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  5. Article ; Online: Changes in predictive cuing modulate the hemispheric distribution of the P1 inhibitory response to attentional targets.

    Lasaponara, Stefano / D' Onofrio, Marianna / Dragone, Alessio / Pinto, Mario / Caratelli, Ludovica / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    Neuropsychologia

    2017  Volume 99, Page(s) 156–164

    Abstract: Brain activity related to orienting of attention with spatial cues and brain responses to attentional targets are influenced the probabilistic contingency between cues and targets. Compared to predictive cues, cues predicting at chance the location of ... ...

    Abstract Brain activity related to orienting of attention with spatial cues and brain responses to attentional targets are influenced the probabilistic contingency between cues and targets. Compared to predictive cues, cues predicting at chance the location of targets reduce the filtering out of uncued locations and the costs in reorienting attention to targets presented at these locations. Slagter et al. (2016) have recently suggested that the larger target related P1 component that is found in the hemisphere ipsilateral to validly cued targets reflects stimulus-driven inhibition in the processing of the unstimulated side of space contralateral to the same hemisphere. Here we verified whether the strength of this inhibition and the amplitude of the corresponding P1 wave are modulated by the probabilistic link between cues and targets. Healthy participants performed a task of endogenous orienting once with predictive and once with non-predictive directional cues. In the non-predictive condition we observed a drop in the amplitude of the P1 ipsilateral to the target and in the costs of reorienting. No change in the inter-hemispheric latencies of the P1 was found between the two predictive conditions. The N1 facilitatory component was unaffected by predictive cuing. These results show that the predictive context modulates the strength of the inhibitory P1 response and that this modulation is not matched with changes in the inter-hemispheric interaction between the P1 generators of the two hemispheres.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Analysis of Variance ; Attention/physiology ; Brain/physiology ; Cues ; Dominance, Cerebral ; Electroencephalography ; Electrooculography ; Evoked Potentials ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Orientation/physiology ; Reaction Time ; Space Perception/physiology ; Visual Perception/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-03-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 207151-4
    ISSN 1873-3514 ; 0028-3932
    ISSN (online) 1873-3514
    ISSN 0028-3932
    DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.010
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  6. Article ; Online: The Response of the Left Ventral Attentional System to Invalid Targets and its Implication for the Spatial Neglect Syndrome: a Multivariate fMRI Investigation.

    Silvetti, Massimo / Lasaponara, Stefano / Lecce, Francesca / Dragone, Alessio / Macaluso, Emiliano / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

    2016  Volume 26, Issue 12, Page(s) 4551–4562

    Abstract: In humans, invalid visual targets that mismatch spatial expectations induced by attentional cues are considered to selectively engage a right hemispheric "reorienting" network that includes the temporal parietal junction (TPJ), the inferior frontal gyrus ...

    Abstract In humans, invalid visual targets that mismatch spatial expectations induced by attentional cues are considered to selectively engage a right hemispheric "reorienting" network that includes the temporal parietal junction (TPJ), the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and the medial frontal gyrus (MFG). However, recent findings suggest that this hemispheric dominance is not absolute and that it is rather observed because the TPJ and IFG areas in the left hemisphere are engaged both by invalid and valid cued targets. Because of this, the BOLD response of the left hemisphere to invalid targets is usually cancelled out by the standard "invalid versus valid" contrast used in functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations of spatial attention. Here, we used multivariate pattern recognition analysis (MVPA) to gain finer insight into the role played by the left TPJ and IFG in reorienting to invalid targets. We found that in left TPJ and IFG blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responses to invalid and valid targets were associated to different patterns of neural activity, possibly reflecting the presence of functionally distinct neuronal populations. Pattern segregation was significant at group level, it was present in almost all of the participants to the study and was observed both for targets in the left and right side of space. A control whole-brain MVPA ("Searchlight" analysis) confirmed the results obtained in predefined regions of interest and highlighted that also other areas, that is, superior parietal and frontal-polar cortex, show different patterns of BOLD response to valid and invalid targets. These results confirm and expand previous evidence highlighting the involvement of the left hemisphere in reorienting of visual attention (Doricchi et al. 2010; Dragone et al. 2015). These findings suggest that asymmetrical reorienting deficits suffered by right brain damaged patients with left spatial neglect, who have severe impairments in contralesional reorienting and less severe impairments in ipsilesional reorienting, are due to preserved reorienting abilities in the intact left hemisphere.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1077450-6
    ISSN 1460-2199 ; 1047-3211
    ISSN (online) 1460-2199
    ISSN 1047-3211
    DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhv208
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  7. Article ; Online: EEG Correlates of Preparatory Orienting, Contextual Updating, and Inhibition of Sensory Processing in Left Spatial Neglect.

    Lasaponara, Stefano / D'Onofrio, Marianna / Pinto, Mario / Dragone, Alessio / Menicagli, Dario / Bueti, Domenica / De Lucia, Marzia / Tomaiuolo, Francesco / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

    2018  Volume 38, Issue 15, Page(s) 3792–3808

    Abstract: Studies with event-related potentials have highlighted deficits in the early phases of orienting to left visual targets in right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect (N+). However, brain responses associated with preparatory orienting of ... ...

    Abstract Studies with event-related potentials have highlighted deficits in the early phases of orienting to left visual targets in right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect (N+). However, brain responses associated with preparatory orienting of attention, with target novelty and with the detection of a match/mismatch between expected and actual targets (contextual updating), have not been explored in N+. Here in a study in healthy humans and brain-damaged patients of both sexes we demonstrate that frontal activity that reflects supramodal mechanisms of attentional orienting (Anterior Directing Attention Negativity, ADAN) is entirely spared in N+. In contrast, posterior responses that mark the early phases of cued orienting (Early Directing Attention Negativity, EDAN) and the setting up of sensory facilitation over the visual cortex (Late Directing Attention Positivity, LDAP) are suppressed in N+. This uncoupling is associated with damage of parietal-frontal white matter. N+ also exhibit exaggerated novelty reaction to targets in the right side of space and reduced novelty reaction for those in the left side (P3a) together with impaired contextual updating (P3b) in the left space. Finally, we highlight a drop in the amplitude and latency of the P1 that over the left hemisphere signals the early blocking of sensory processing in the right space when targets occur in the left one: this identifies a new electrophysiological marker of the rightward attentional bias in N+. The heterogeneous effects and spatial biases produced by localized brain damage on the different phases of attentional processing indicate relevant functional independence among their underlying neural mechanisms and improve the understanding of the spatial neglect syndrome.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Aged ; Cerebral Cortex/physiopathology ; Electroencephalography ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neural Inhibition ; Orientation, Spatial ; Perceptual Disorders/physiopathology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-03-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 604637-x
    ISSN 1529-2401 ; 0270-6474
    ISSN (online) 1529-2401
    ISSN 0270-6474
    DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2817-17.2018
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  8. Article ; Online: The "serendipitous brain": Low expectancy and timing uncertainty of conscious events improve awareness of unconscious ones (evidence from the Attentional Blink).

    Lasaponara, Stefano / Dragone, Alessio / Lecce, Francesca / Di Russo, Francesco / Doricchi, Fabrizio

    Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    2015  Volume 71, Page(s) 15–33

    Abstract: To anticipate upcoming sensory events, the brain picks-up and exploits statistical regularities in the sensory environment. However, it is untested whether cumulated predictive knowledge about consciously seen stimuli improves the access to awareness of ... ...

    Abstract To anticipate upcoming sensory events, the brain picks-up and exploits statistical regularities in the sensory environment. However, it is untested whether cumulated predictive knowledge about consciously seen stimuli improves the access to awareness of stimuli that usually go unseen. To explore this issue, we exploited the Attentional Blink (AB) effect, where conscious processing of a first visual target (T1) hinders detection of early following targets (T2). We report that timing uncertainty and low expectancy about the occurrence of consciously seen T2s presented outside the AB period, improve detection of early and otherwise often unseen T2s presented inside the AB. Recording of high-resolution Event Related Potentials (ERPs) and the study of their intracranial sources showed that the brain achieves this improvement by initially amplifying and extending the pre-conscious storage of T2s' traces signalled by the N2 wave originating in the extra-striate cortex. This enhancement in the N2 wave is followed by specific changes in the latency and amplitude of later components in the P3 wave (P3a and P3b), signalling access of the sensory trace to the network of parietal and frontal areas modulating conscious processing. These findings show that the interaction between conscious and unconscious processing changes adaptively as a function of the probabilistic properties of the sensory environment and that the combination of an active attentional state with loose probabilistic and temporal expectancies on forthcoming conscious events favors the emergence to awareness of otherwise unnoticed visual events. This likely provides an insight on the attentional conditions that predispose an active observer to unexpected "serendipitous" findings.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Adult ; Attention/physiology ; Attentional Blink/physiology ; Awareness/physiology ; Brain/physiology ; Consciousness/physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Event-Related Potentials, P300/physiology ; Evoked Potentials/physiology ; Female ; Frontal Lobe/physiology ; Humans ; Learning ; Male ; Nerve Net/physiology ; Parietal Lobe/physiology ; Psychomotor Performance ; Uncertainty ; Unconscious (Psychology) ; Visual Cortex/physiology ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-10
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 280622-8
    ISSN 1973-8102 ; 0010-9452
    ISSN (online) 1973-8102
    ISSN 0010-9452
    DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.029
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  9. Article ; Online: The ePix10k 2-megapixel hard X-ray detector at LCLS.

    van Driel, Tim Brandt / Nelson, Silke / Armenta, Rebecca / Blaj, Gabriel / Boo, Stephen / Boutet, Sébastien / Doering, Dionisio / Dragone, Angelo / Hart, Philip / Haller, Gunther / Kenney, Christopher / Kwaitowski, Maciej / Manger, Leo / McKelvey, Mark / Nakahara, Kaz / Oriunno, Marco / Sato, Takahiro / Weaver, Matt

    Journal of synchrotron radiation

    2020  Volume 27, Issue Pt 3, Page(s) 608–615

    Abstract: The ePix10ka2M (ePix10k) is a new large area detector specifically developed for X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) applications. The hybrid pixel detector was developed at SLAC to provide a hard X-ray area detector with a high dynamic range, running at ... ...

    Abstract The ePix10ka2M (ePix10k) is a new large area detector specifically developed for X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) applications. The hybrid pixel detector was developed at SLAC to provide a hard X-ray area detector with a high dynamic range, running at the 120 Hz repetition rate of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The ePix10k consists of 16 modules, each with 352 × 384 pixels of 100 µm × 100 µm distributed on four ASICs, resulting in a 2.16 megapixel detector, with a 16.5 cm × 16.5 cm active area and ∼80% coverage. The high dynamic range is achieved with three distinct gain settings (low, medium, high) as well as two auto-ranging modes (high-to-low and medium-to-low). Here the three fixed gain modes are evaluated. The resulting dynamic range (from single photon counting to 10000 photons pixel
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2021413-3
    ISSN 1600-5775 ; 0909-0495
    ISSN (online) 1600-5775
    ISSN 0909-0495
    DOI 10.1107/S1600577520004257
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  10. Article: Identification of an allotypic IgA in cattle serum.

    De Benedictis, G / Capalbo, P / Dragone, A

    Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases

    1984  Volume 7, Issue 1, Page(s) 35–42

    Abstract: Alloimmunization of cattle revealed a polymorphism carried on a serum antigen displayed beta-electrophoretic mobility. A genetic test indicated that the antigen is inherited in a Mendelian manner, as product of a dominant allele at an autosomal locus. By ...

    Abstract Alloimmunization of cattle revealed a polymorphism carried on a serum antigen displayed beta-electrophoretic mobility. A genetic test indicated that the antigen is inherited in a Mendelian manner, as product of a dominant allele at an autosomal locus. By immunochemical investigation the allotypic determinant was found to be located on IgA: there were in fact no differences between the peptidic map of the molecule carrying the allotypic determinant and that of IgA from positive sera. Moreover the peptidic map of IgA from sera lacking of the allotype resulted lacking of an anodic peptide, thus suggesting that the polymorphism is indeed due to such a peptide.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Blood Proteins/genetics ; Blood Proteins/immunology ; Cattle/blood ; Female ; Immunodiffusion ; Immunoelectrophoresis ; Immunoglobulin A/analysis ; Immunoglobulin Allotypes/analysis ; Isoantibodies/immunology ; Polymorphism, Genetic
    Chemical Substances Blood Proteins ; Immunoglobulin A ; Immunoglobulin Allotypes ; Isoantibodies
    Language English
    Publishing date 1984
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 436522-7
    ISSN 1878-1667 ; 0147-9571
    ISSN (online) 1878-1667
    ISSN 0147-9571
    DOI 10.1016/0147-9571(84)90014-6
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