Giovanni Assenza

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Giovanni Assenza is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanni Assenza has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 23 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Giovanni Assenza's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (32 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (23 papers) and Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (17 papers). Giovanni Assenza is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (32 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (23 papers) and Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (17 papers). Giovanni Assenza collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Giovanni Assenza's co-authors include Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Mario Tombini, Giovanni Pellegrino, Franca Tecchio, Giovanni Di Pino, Filippo Zappasodi, Fioravante Capone, Federico Ranieri, Florinda Ferreri and Domenico Formica and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Assenza

70 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Modulation of brain plasticity in stroke: a novel model for neurorehabilitation

2014 689 citations Giovanni Di Pino, Giovanni Pellegrino et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giovanni Assenza Italy	28	1.2k	1.0k	512	487	402	76	2.5k
Giovanni Pellegrino Italy	32	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	400 0.8×	598 1.2×	377 0.9×	92	2.8k
Mario Tombini Italy	34	2.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 2.1×	545 1.1×	943 2.3×	115	4.1k
M. Cincotta Italy	32	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	384 0.8×	158 0.3×	538 1.3×	100	2.8k
Fioravante Capone Italy	30	1.5k 1.2×	2.7k 2.6×	568 1.1×	915 1.9×	307 0.8×	127	4.0k
Jérémie Pariente France	30	1.6k 1.2×	960 0.9×	449 0.9×	800 1.6×	972 2.4×	127	4.0k
Sadatoshi Tsuji Japan	30	656 0.5×	989 1.0×	438 0.9×	112 0.2×	303 0.8×	109	2.3k
Flavia Pauri Italy	24	786 0.6×	860 0.8×	213 0.4×	254 0.5×	465 1.2×	57	2.0k
Qiwen Mu China	28	1.1k 0.9×	985 1.0×	185 0.4×	312 0.6×	343 0.9×	53	2.4k
Judith D. Schaechter United States	21	983 0.8×	761 0.7×	241 0.5×	933 1.9×	376 0.9×	38	2.5k
Margherita Russo Italy	32	568 0.5×	734 0.7×	288 0.6×	741 1.5×	549 1.4×	79	2.6k

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Giorgi, Riccardo De, Tessa Lomax, Carmen Moreno, et al.. (2025). Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1–8.

Baker, Gus A., Donna Walsh, Federico Pigni, et al.. (2025). Epilepsy and Employment in Europe: A Systematic Review of Literature. European Journal of Neurology. 32(4). e70129–e70129. 1 indexed citations

Assenza, Giovanni, Lorenzo Ricci, Marilisa Boscarino, et al.. (2025). Cenobamate modulates EEG cortical activity and connectivity in individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy: a pharmaco-EEG study. Frontiers in Neurology. 15. 1502668–1502668. 3 indexed citations

Pellegrino, Giovanni, Anna‐Lisa Schuler, Daniele Marinazzo, et al.. (2024). Assessing cortical excitability with electroencephalography: A pilot study with EEG-iTBS. Brain stimulation. 17(2). 176–183. 16 indexed citations

Riva, Antonella, Roberta Roberti, Gianluca D’Onofrio, et al.. (2023). A real‐life pilot study of the clinical application of pharmacogenomics testing on saliva in epilepsy. Epilepsia Open. 8(3). 1142–1150. 7 indexed citations

Ricci, Lorenzo, Eleonora Tamilia, Giusy Carfì Pavia, et al.. (2023). Phase-amplitude coupling between low- and high-frequency activities as preoperative biomarker of focal cortical dysplasia subtypes. Clinical Neurophysiology. 150. 40–48. 2 indexed citations

Tombini, Mario, Andrea Palermo, Lorenzo Ricci, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the effect of calcifediol supplementation on seizure frequency in people with drug-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior. 145. 109334–109334. 1 indexed citations

Lanzone, Jacopo, Lorenzo Ricci, Marilisa Boscarino, et al.. (2021). Medication adherence in people with epilepsy. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 429. 119131–119131. 1 indexed citations

Rocamora, Rodrigo, et al.. (2019). Safety, tolerability and effectiveness of transition to eslicarbazepine acetate from carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine in clinical practice. Seizure. 75. 121–128. 10 indexed citations

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Tombini, Mario, Andrea Palermo, Giovanni Assenza, et al.. (2018). Calcium metabolism serum markers in adult patients with epilepsy and the effect of vitamin D supplementation on seizure control. Seizure. 58. 75–81. 27 indexed citations

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Assenza, Giovanni, Fioravante Capone, Lazzaro di Biase, et al.. (2017). Oscillatory Activities in Neurological Disorders of Elderly: Biomarkers to Target for Neuromodulation. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 9. 189–189. 69 indexed citations

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Zappasodi, Filippo, Pierpaolo Croce, Giovanni Assenza, et al.. (2017). Prognostic Value of EEG Microstates in Acute Stroke. Brain Topography. 30(5). 698–710. 71 indexed citations

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Assenza, Giovanni, Elena Di Gennaro, Mario Tombini, et al.. (2016). A novel c132‐134del mutation in Unverricht‐Lundborg disease and the review of literature of heterozygous compound patients. Epilepsia. 58(2). e31–e35. 10 indexed citations

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Lazzaro, Vincenzo Di, Federica Giambattistelli, Emanuele Pravatà, & Giovanni Assenza. (2014). Brachial palsy after deep sleep. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 85(12). 1409–1410. 1 indexed citations

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Assenza, Giovanni, Giovanni Pellegrino, Mario Tombini, Giovanni Di Pino, & Vincenzo Di Lazzaro. (2014). Wakefulness delta waves increase after cortical plasticity induction. Clinical Neurophysiology. 126(6). 1221–1227. 47 indexed citations

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Zappasodi, Filippo, Elżbieta Olejarczyk, Laura Marzetti, et al.. (2014). Fractal Dimension of EEG Activity Senses Neuronal Impairment in Acute Stroke. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100199–e100199. 127 indexed citations

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Assenza, Giovanni, Filippo Zappasodi, Patrizio Pasqualetti, Fabrizio Vernieri, & Franca Tecchio. (2013). A contralesional EEG power increase mediated by interhemispheric disconnection provides negative prognosis in acute stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 31(2). 177–188. 70 indexed citations

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Tombini, Mario, Giovanni Pellegrino, Giovanni Di Pino, & Giovanni Assenza. (2013). Zonisamide for seizures in Parkinson's disease with dementia. Seizure. 22(4). 324–325. 9 indexed citations

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Pino, Giovanni Di, Camillo Porcaro, Mario Tombini, et al.. (2012). A neurally-interfaced hand prosthesis tuned inter-hemispheric communication. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 30(5). 407–418. 31 indexed citations

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Graziadio, Sara, Leo Tomasevic, Giovanni Assenza, Franca Tecchio, & J A Eyre. (2012). The myth of the ‘unaffected’ side after unilateral stroke: Is reorganisation of the non‐infarcted corticospinal system to re-establish balance the price for recovery?. Experimental Neurology. 238(2). 168–175. 63 indexed citations

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