Stefano Vassanelli

The paper investigates resting-state activity in the rat barrel cortex and shows that 11 Hz oscillations and neuronal avalanches are modulated by slower rhythms and are involved in sensory responses to whisker stimulation.

The paper demonstrates that the somatosensory barrel cortex controls spindle oscillations through frequency locking in anesthetized rats.

The paper uses experimental and computational methods to show that spontaneous network activity patterns predict the effects of targeted stimulation in hippocampal neuronal cultures.

The paper shows that silencing the prefrontal cortex paradoxically increases resting-state fMRI connectivity with its thalamo-cortical terminals.

The paper investigates whether neuronal avalanches in the somatosensory barrel cortex of anesthetized rats exhibit critical behavior during spontaneous and stimulated activity.