Laurent Spinelli

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Laurent Spinelli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Spinelli has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 12 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Laurent Spinelli's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (35 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (30 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (25 papers). Laurent Spinelli is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (35 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (30 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (25 papers). Laurent Spinelli collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Laurent Spinelli's co-authors include Margitta Seeck, Christoph M. Michel, Göran Lantz, Rolando Grave de Peralta, Olaf Blanke, Théodor Landis, Sara Gonzalez, Micah M. Murray, Serge Vulliémoz and Claudio Pollo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Spinelli

82 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

EEG source imaging

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laurent Spinelli Switzerland	36	4.2k	1.7k	790	774	594	82	5.5k
Dean F. Salisbury United States	46	5.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.6×	924 1.2×	1.9k 2.4×	291 0.5×	144	7.7k
Troels W. Kjær Denmark	33	3.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	790 1.0×	237 0.3×	413 0.7×	187	4.7k
Vicente J. Iragui United States	30	4.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	575 0.7×	729 0.9×	287 0.5×	58	5.6k
Douglas Cheyne Canada	39	4.8k 1.1×	596 0.4×	825 1.0×	483 0.6×	437 0.7×	125	5.6k
Jeanne Townsend United States	42	7.8k 1.9×	1.3k 0.8×	629 0.8×	612 0.8×	486 0.8×	76	9.5k
Jorge Jovicich Italy	29	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	349 0.4×	2.0k 2.5×	321 0.5×	90	6.0k
Karsten Krakow Germany	31	3.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	565 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	152 0.3×	68	5.3k
Dimitrios Pantazis United States	27	5.7k 1.4×	515 0.3×	574 0.7×	674 0.9×	388 0.7×	111	7.1k
David Rudrauf United States	35	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	668 0.8×	656 0.8×	736 1.2×	70	5.6k
Line Garnero France	31	2.7k 0.7×	853 0.5×	474 0.6×	886 1.1×	437 0.7×	96	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Spinelli

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Vorderwülbecke, Bernd J., Margherita Carboni, Sébastien Tourbier, et al.. (2025). High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1441–1441. 1 indexed citations

Sheybani, Laurent, Pierre Mégevand, Nicolas Roehri, et al.. (2023). Asymmetry of sleep electrophysiological markers in patients with focal epilepsy. Brain Communications. 5(3). fcad161–fcad161. 13 indexed citations

Spinelli, Laurent, Marco V. Corniola, Shahan Momjian, et al.. (2023). Implantation and reimplantation of intracranial EEG electrodes in patients considering epilepsy surgery. Epilepsia Open. 8(4). 1622–1627. 4 indexed citations

Spinelli, Laurent, Hans‐Jürgen Huppertz, Karl Schaller, et al.. (2023). Yield of non-invasive imaging in MRI-negative focal epilepsy. Journal of Neurology. 271(2). 995–1003. 9 indexed citations

Guex, Raphaël, Tomas Ros, Pierre Mégevand, et al.. (2022). Prestimulus amygdala spectral activity is associated with visual face awareness. Cerebral Cortex. 33(4). 1044–1057. 2 indexed citations

Garibotto, Valentina, Laurent Spinelli, Sándor Beniczky, et al.. (2022). High density electric source imaging in childhood-onset epilepsy due to focal cortical dysplasia. Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. 7. 245–251. 1 indexed citations

Sheybani, Laurent, Pierre Mégevand, Laurent Spinelli, et al.. (2021). Slow oscillations open susceptible time windows for epileptic discharges. Epilepsia. 62(10). 2357–2371. 15 indexed citations

Arnal, Luc H., Andreas Kleinschmidt, Laurent Spinelli, Anne‐Lise Giraud, & Pierre Mégevand. (2019). The rough sound of salience enhances aversion through neural synchronisation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3671–3671. 54 indexed citations

Park, Hyeong-Dong, Fosco Bernasconi, Roy Salomon, et al.. (2017). Neural Sources and Underlying Mechanisms of Neural Responses to Heartbeats, and their Role in Bodily Self-consciousness: An Intracranial EEG Study. Cerebral Cortex. 28(7). 2351–2364. 121 indexed citations

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Mercier, Manuel, Sophie Schwartz, Laurent Spinelli, Christoph M. Michel, & Olaf Blanke. (2016). Dorsal and ventral stream contributions to form-from-motion perception in a patient with form-from motion deficit: a case report. Brain Structure and Function. 222(2). 1093–1107. 3 indexed citations

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Serino, Andrea, Lukas Heydrich, Mary Kurian, et al.. (2014). Auditory verbal hallucinations of epileptic origin. Epilepsy & Behavior. 31. 181–186. 13 indexed citations

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Mégevand, Pierre, Laurent Spinelli, M. Genetti, et al.. (2013). Electric source imaging of interictal activity accurately localises the seizure onset zone. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 85(1). 38–43. 113 indexed citations

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Kargiotis, Odysseas, Agustina M. Lascano, Valentina Garibotto, et al.. (2013). Localization of the epileptogenic tuber with electric source imaging in patients with tuberous sclerosis. Epilepsy Research. 108(2). 267–279. 28 indexed citations

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Genetti, M., Frédéric Grouiller, Serge Vulliémoz, et al.. (2012). Noninvasive Language Mapping in Patients With Epilepsy or Brain Tumors. Neurosurgery. 72(4). 555–565. 17 indexed citations

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Brodbeck, Verena, Laurent Spinelli, Agustina M. Lascano, et al.. (2010). Electrical source imaging for presurgical focus localization in epilepsy patients with normal MRI. Epilepsia. 51(4). 583–591. 98 indexed citations

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Pourtois, Gilles, Laurent Spinelli, M. Seeck, & Patrik Vuilleumier. (2010). Temporal precedence of emotion over attention modulations in the lateral amygdala: Intracranial ERP evidence from a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 10(1). 83–93. 110 indexed citations

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Kurian, Mary, Laurent Spinelli, J. Delavelle, et al.. (2007). Multimodality imaging for focus localization in pediatric pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Epileptic Disorders. 9(1). 20–31. 42 indexed citations

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Boëx, Colette, Serge Vulliémoz, Laurent Spinelli, Claudio Pollo, & Margitta Seeck. (2007). High and low frequency electrical stimulation in non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy. Seizure. 16(8). 664–669. 58 indexed citations

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Blanke, Olaf, et al.. (1999). Electrical cortical stimulation of the human prefrontal cortex evokes complex visual hallucinations. Epilepsia. 40. 146–146. 2 indexed citations

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Seeck, Margitta, et al.. (1999). Left temporal rhythmic electrical activity: a correlate for psychosis? A case report. Journal of Neural Transmission. 106(7-8). 787–794. 7 indexed citations

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