Simone Russo
Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Simone Russo is a neuroscientist at the University of Milan working with Marcello Massimini, Andrea Pigorini, and Lino Nobili on the electrophysiological mechanisms of sensory awareness and cortical excitability. His research combines simultaneous intracranial stereo-EEG and high-density scalp EEG in neurosurgical patients to resolve how local cortical spiking and broadband activity project onto non-invasive scalp potentials.
In October 2026, Russo co-authored “Simultaneous recordings link intracranial and scalp correlates of somatosensory awareness” (bioRxiv 10.64898/2026.10.03.756393). The study demonstrates that early primary somatosensory responses remain identical between detected and undetected near-threshold tactile stimuli, while conscious detection tracks a sustained burst of broadband high-frequency activity (50 to 150 Hz) and a subsequent local field potential in higher-order insulo-opercular somatosensory cortex that directly generates the scalp N140 somatosensory awareness negativity.
Russo’s profile is Builder, representing the multi-scale empirical instrumentation needed to tie non-invasive clinical markers of consciousness to specific neural population dynamics.
Known for. Simultaneous intracranial sEEG and high-density scalp EEG recordings of somatosensory awareness, cortical response dynamics
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