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2007
Ferrarelli F, Huber R, Peterson MJ , Massimini M, Murphy M, Riedner BA, Watson A, Bria P, Tononi G. Reduced sleep spindle activity in schizophrenia patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164: 483-492, 2007.

Huber R, Tononi G, Cirelli C. Exploratory behavior, cortical BDNF expression and sleep homeostasis. Sleep, 30: 129-139, 2007.

2006
Cirelli C, Faraguna U, Tononi G. Changes in brain gene expression after long-term sleep deprivation. J of Neurochemistry 98:1632-1645, 2006.

Cirelli C. Cellular consequences of sleep deprivation in the brain. Sleep Medicine Review, 10: 307-321, 2006.

Cirelli C. Sleep disruption, oxidative stress, and aging: new insights from fruit flies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 103: 13901-13902, 2006.

Huber R, Ghilardi MG, Massimini M, Ferrarelli F, Riedner BA, Peterson MJ, Tononi G. Arm immobilization, cortical plasticity, and local sleep homeostasis. Nature Neuroscience, 9: 1169-1176, 2006.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. Sleep and synaptic homeostasis. Sleep Medicine Review, 10: 49-62.

Tononi G, Massimini M, Riedner B. Sleepy dialogues between cortex and hippocampus: who talks to whom? Neuron, 52: 748-749, 2006.

2005
Cirelli C. A molecular window on sleep: Changes in gene expression between sleepand wakefulness. The Neuroscientist, 11: 63-74, 2005.

Cirelli C, Bushey D, Hill S, Huber R, Kreber R, Ganetzky B, Tononi G. Reduced sleep in Drosophila Shaker mutants. Nature, 434: 1087-1092, 2005a.

Cirelli C, Lavaute TM, Tononi G. Sleep and wakefulness modulate gene expression in Drosophila. Journal of Neurochemistry, 94: 1411-1419, 2005b.

Cirelli C, Huber R, Gopalakrishnan A, Southard T, Tononi G. Locus Ceruleus control of slow wave homeostasis. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 4503-4511, 2005c.

Esser SK, Hill SL, Tononi G. Modeling the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cortical circuits. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94: 622-639, 2005.

Hill SL, Tononi G. Modeling Sleep and Wakefulness in the Thalamocortical System. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93: 1671-1698, 2005.

Massimini M, Ferrarelli F, Huber R, Esser SK, Singh H, Tononi G. Breakdown of cortical effective connectivity during sleep, Science, 2005, in press.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. Sleep and synaptic homeostasis. Sleep Medicine Review, in press.


2004
Cirelli C, Gutierrez CM, Tononi G. Extensive and divergent effects of sleep and wakefulness on brain gene expression. Neuron, 41: 35-43, 2004.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Locus ceruleus control of state-dependent gene expression. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 5410-5419, 2004.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Uncoupling proteins and sleep deprivation. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 142: 541-549, 2004.

Ferrarelli F, Haraldsson, MH, Barnhart TE, Roberts ADF, Massimini M, Stone CK, Kalin NH, Tononi G. A [17F]-fluoromethane PET/TMS study of effective connectivity. Brain Research Bulletin, 64: 103-113, 2004.

Gopalakrishnan A, Ji LL, Cirelli C. Oxidative stress and cellular damage after sleep deprivation. Sleep, 27: 27-34, 2004.

Haraldsson MH, Ferrarelli F, Kalin NH, Tononi G. Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the investigation and treatment of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 71: 1-16, 2004.

Huber R, Ghilardi MF, Massimini M, Tononi G. Local sleep and learning. Nature, 430: 78-81, 2004a.

Huber R, Hill S, Holladay C, Biesiadecki M, Tononi G, Cirelli C. Sleep homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster. Sleep, 27: 628-639, 2004b.

Massimini M, Huber R, Ferrarelli F, Hill S, Tononi G. The Sleep Slow Oscillation as a Traveling Wave. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 6862-6870, 2004.

Salbaum JM, Cirelli C, Walcott E, Krushel LE, Edelman GM, Tononi G. Chlorotoxin-mediated disinhibition of noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons using a conditional transgenic approach. Brain Research, 1016: 20-32, 2004.

Tononi G. An Information Integration Theory of Consciousness. BMC Neuroscience, 5:42, 2004.


2003
Cirelli C. Searching for sleep mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. BioEssays, 25: 940-949, 2003.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: A hypothesis. Brain Research Bulletin, 62: 143-150, 2003.

Tononi G, Sporns O. Measuring Information Integration, BMC Neuroscience, 4: 31, 2003.


2002
Cirelli C. How sleep deprivation affects gene expression in the brain: a review of recent findings. Journal of Applied Physiology, 92: 394-400, 2002.

Nitz DA, Tononi G. Tonic Rhythmic Activity of Rat Cerebellar Neurons. Experimental Brain Research, 146: 265-270, 2002.

Nitz DA, van Swinderen B, Tononi G, Greenspan RJ. A novel approach to recording local field potentials from the brain of Drosophila reveals electrophysiological correlates of rest and activity. Current Biology, 12: 1934-1940, 2002.

Shaw PJ, Tononi G, Greenspan RJ, Robinson SF. Stress response genes protect against the lethal effects of sleep deprivation in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature, 417: 287-291, 2002.

Sporns O, Tononi G. Classes of network connectivity and dynamics. Complexity, 7: 28-38, 2002.


2001
Cirelli C, Tononi G. The search for the molecular correlates of sleep and wakefulness. Sleep Medicine Review, 5: 399-410, 2001.

Greenspan RJ, Tononi G, Cirelli C, Shaw PJ. Sleep and the fruit fly. Trends in Neuroscience, 24: 142-145, 2001.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. Some consideration on sleep and neural plasticity. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 139: 221-241, 2001.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. Modulation of brain gene expression during sleep and wakefulness: A review of recent findings. Neuropsychopharmacology, 25(5): S28-S52, 2001.

Tononi G. Information measures for conscious experience, Archives italiennes de Biologie, 139: 367-371, 2001.


2000
Cirelli C, Tononi G. On the functional significance of c-fos induction during the sleep/waking cycle. Sleep, 23: 453-469, 2000.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Differential expression of plasticity-related genes in waking and sleep and their regulation by the noradrenergic system. Journal of Neuroscience, 20: 9187-9194, 2000.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Gene expression in the brain across the sleep-waking cycle. Brain Research, 885: 303-321, 2000.

Shaw PJ, Cirelli C, Greenspan RJ, Tononi G. Correlates of sleep and waking in Drosophila Melanogaster. Science, 287: 1834-1837, 2000.

Sporns O, Tononi G, Edelman GM. Theoretical Neuroanatomy: Relating anatomical and functional connectivity in graphs and cortical connection matrices. Cerebral Cortex, 10: 127-141, 2000.

Sporns O, Tononi G, Edelman GM. Connectivity and complexity: The relationship between neuroanatomy and brain dynamics. Neural Networks, 13: 909-922, 2000.

Tononi G, Edelman GM. Schizophrenia and the Mechanisms of Conscious Integration. Brain Research Reviews, 31: 391-400, 2000.


1999
Cirelli C, Shaw PJ, Rechtschaffen A, Tononi G. No evidence of brain cell degeneration after long-term sleep deprivation in rats. Brain Research, 840: 184-193, 1999.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Differences in brain gene expression between sleep and waking as revealed by mRNA differential display and cDNA microarray technology. Journal of Sleep Research, 8 (S1): 44-52, 1999.

Srinivasan R, Russell DP, Edelman GM, Tononi G. Increased Synchronization of Neuromagnetic Responses during Conscious Perception, Journal of Neuroscience, 19: 5435-5448, 1999.

Tononi G, Cirelli C. The Frontiers of Sleep. Trends in Neuroscience, 22: 417-418, 1999.

Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman GM. Measures of Degeneracy and Redundancy in Biological Networks, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96: 3257-3262, 1999.


1998
Borbély AA, Tononi G. The quest for the essence of sleep. Daedalus, 127: 167-196, 1998.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Differences in gene expression between sleep and waking as revealed by mRNA differential display. Molecular Brain Research, 56: 293-305, 1998.

Cirelli C, Tononi G. Changes in anti-phosphoserine and anti-phosphothreonine antibody binding during the sleep-waking cycle and after lesions of the locus coeruleus. Sleep Research Online 1: 11-18, 1998.

Tononi G, Edelman GM. Consciousness and Complexity. Science, 282: 1846-1851, 1998.

Tononi G, McIntosh AR, Russell DP, Edelman GM. Functional clustering: Identifying strongly interactive brain regions in neuroimaging data. Neuroimage, 7: 133-149, 1998.

Tononi G, Srinivasan R, Russell DP, Edelman GM. Investigating neural correlates of conscious perception by frequency-tagged neuromagnetic responses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95: 3198-3203, 1998.

Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman GM. Complexity and Coherency: Integrating Information in the Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2: 474-484, 1998.


1997
Lumer ED, Edelman GM, Tononi G. Neural dynamics in a model of the thalamocortical system .1. Layers, loops and the emergence of fast synchronous rhythms. Cerebral Cortex, 7: 207-227, 1997.

Lumer ED, Edelman GM, Tononi G. Neural dynamics in a model of the thalamocortical system .2. The role of neural synchrony tested through perturbations of spike timing. Cerebral Cortex, 7: 228-236, 1997.

Pompeiano M, Cirelli C, Ronca-Testoni S, Tononi G. NGFI-A expression in the rat brain after sleep deprivation. Molecular Brain Research, 46: 143-153, 1997.

Rucci M, Tononi G, Edelman GM. Registration of neural maps through value-dependent learning: Modeling the alignment of auditory and visual maps in the barn owl's optic tectum. Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 334-352, 1997.

Tononi G, Edelman GM. Information: In the stimulus or in the context? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20: 698-700, 1997.

Tononi G. What is the minimal brain unit capable of sleep? World Federation of Sleep Research Societies Newsletter, 5: 9-11, 1997.


1996
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Tononi G. Neuronal gene expression in the waking state: a role for the locus coeruleus. Science, 274: 1211-1215, 1996.

Friston KJ, Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman GM. Characterizing the complexity of neural interactions. Human Brain Mapping, 3: 302-314, 1996.

Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman GM. A measure for the selective matching of signals by the brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93: 3422-3427, 1996.


1995
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Tononi G. Sleep deprivation and c-fos expression in the rat brain. Journal of Sleep Research, 4: 92-106, 1995.
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Arrighi P, Tononi G. Sleep-waking changes after c-fos antisense injections in the medial preoptic area. Neuroreport, 6: 801-805, 1995.
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Arrighi P, Tononi G. Fos-positive cells associated with forced wakefulness in the hypothalamus of the rat are not GABAergic. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 133: 143-148, 1995.
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Tononi G. In vivo antisense approaches to the role of immediate early gene expression in the brain. Regulatory Peptides, 59: 151-162, 1995.
Tononi G, Cirelli C, Pompeiano M. Changes in gene expression during the sleep-waking cycle: a new view of activating systems. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 134: 21-37, 1995.


1994
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Tononi G. Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain in spontaneous wakefulness and sleep. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 131: 327-330, 1993.

Friston KJ, Tononi G, Reeke GNJr, Sporns O, Edelman GM. Value-dependent selection in the brain: Simulation in a synthetic neural model. Neuroscience, 59: 229-243, 1994.

Pompeiano M, Cirelli C, Tononi G. Immediate early genes in spontaneous wakefulness and sleep: Expression of c fos and NGFI A mRNA and protein. Journal of Sleep Research, 3: 80-96, 1994.

Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman GM. A measure for brain complexity: Relating functional segregation and integration in the nervous system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91: 5033-5037, 1994.

Tononi G, Cirelli C, Pompeiano M. The locus coeruleus and immediate early genes in spontaneous and forced wakefulness. Brain Research Bulletin, 35: 589-596, 1994.


1993
Cirelli C, Pompeiano M, Tononi G. Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain in spontaneous wakefulness and sleep. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 131: 327-330, 1993.


1992
Cirelli C, Tononi G, Pompeiano M, Pompeiano O, Gennari A. Modulation of desynchronized sleep through microinjection of a1 adrenergic agonists and antagonists in the dorsal pontine tegmentum of the cat. Pflügers Arch., 422: 273-279, 1992.

Edelman GM, Reeke GNJr, Gall WE, Tononi G, Williams D, Sporns O. Synthetic neural modeling applied to a real-world artifact. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 89: 7267-7271, 1992.

Pompeiano M, Cirelli C, Tononi G. Effects of sleep deprivation on Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 130: 325-335, 1992.

Tononi G, Sporns O, Edelman G.M. Reentry and the problem of integrating multiple brain areas: Simulation of dynamic integration in the visual system. Cerebral Cortex, 2: 310-335, 1992.

Tononi G. Reentry and the integration of brain function. Scientific Contributions to General Psychology, 8: 27-51, 1992.


1991
Sporns O, Tononi G, Edelman GM. Modeling perceptual grouping and figure-ground segregation by means of active reentrant connections. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88: 129-133, 1991.

Tononi G, Pompeiano M, Cirelli C. Suppression of desynchronized sleep through microinjection of the a2 adrenergic agonist clonidine in the dorsal pontine tegmentum of the cat. Pflügers Arch., 418: 512-518, 1991.

Tononi G, Pompeiano M, Cirelli C. Effects of local pontine injection of noradrenergic agents on desynchronized sleep in the cat. Progress in Brain Research, 85: 545-553, 1991.


1990
Pompeiano M, Tononi G, Galbani P. Muscarinic receptor binding in forebrain and cerebellum during sleep waking states in the rat. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 128: 77 79, 1990.

Pompeiano M, Tononi G. Changes in pontine muscarinic receptor binding during sleep waking states in the rat. Neuroscience Letters, 109: 347 352, 1990.

Tononi G, Pompeiano M, Ronca Testoni S. Noradrenergic receptor binding during sleep waking states in the rat. Archives italiennes de Biologie, 128: 67 76, 1990.

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