A5053545545- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Color perception and design
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
University of Pisa
2017-2023
Background: Emerging aspects of the Covid-19 clinical presentation are its long-term effects, which characteristic so-called “long COVID”. The aim present study was to investigate prevalence physical, psychological, and sleep disturbances quality life in general population during ongoing pandemic. Methods: This study, based on an online survey, collected demographic data, information related COVID-19, disturbances, data from 507 individuals. level assessed through Insomnia Severity Index...
As of March 2020, the respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has been declared a "pandemic" WHO. In an effort to stem spread virus, governments around world have ordered more or less restrictive isolation measures. If lockdown and social proven be quite effective in terms physical containment, mental health appears undermined onset feelings such as uncertainty, fear, despair. Likely, near future, professionals will called face "parallel pandemic" acute stress disorders,...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has caused not only significant physical health problems but also mental disorders. Anxiety and fear appear to be the main psychological symptoms associated with COVID-19. aim of this study was investigate whether anxiety related COVID-19 are influenced by sociodemographics specific conditions, such as positivity for or death among relatives friends, can further enhance these symptoms. In cross-sectional study, 697 Italians responded an online...
Emotions are influenced by several individual factors. Hypnotizability - a psychophysiological trait associated with morpho-functional cerebral and cerebellar variations able to sustain differences in interoception emotion could be one of them. The aims the study were find out possible Interoceptive Awareness (IA) emotional traits sustained Behavioral Inhibition/Activation System (BIS/BAS) participants high (highs), medium (mediums) low (lows) hypnotizability investigate association...
High hypnotizability is associated with left-sided cerebral asymmetry, which could influence measurement of the Peripersonal Space (PPS). Right-handed participants high (highs, n = 20), medium (mediums, 9), and low scores (lows, 20) performed line bisection test on a computer screen automatically displaced at distances 30, 60, 90 cm from subjects' eyes. Highs' results showed rightward bias (Relative Error, RE) for all presentation distances. In contrast, in lows RE was leftward 30 exhibited...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact on adolescent mental health, with dramatic rise in psychiatric emergencies that has challenged healthcare systems worldwide. This paper aims at focusing reporting the authors' experience and their data collected 2022 Tuscan, within context of "Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest", large department covering about third Tuscany's Regional Health Service, central Italy. findings will be shortly presented commented on, while providing insights concerning...
This study investigated multisensory integration in 29 medium-to-high (mid-highs) and 24 low-to-medium (mid-lows) hypnotizable individuals, classified according to the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form A. Participants completed a simultaneity judgment (SJ) task, where an auditory visual stimulus were presented close proximity their body range of 11 onset asynchronies. Results show that mid-highs prone judge audiovisual stimuli as simultaneous over wider time intervals between...