A5061484355- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Digestive system and related health
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
Magna Graecia University
2017-2025
Dulbecco Telethon Institute
2024
Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology
2015-2018
National Research Council
2017-2018
Maternal-Fetal Attachment (MFA) delineates the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects that mothers develop toward unborn baby during pregnancy. The literature indicates optimal attachment in pregnancy represents a protective factor for mother-child bond after birth child development outcomes. To date, there are few studies have investigated associated factors of MFA. This study sets out to explore association between perceived parental bonds maternal-fetal bonding pregnant women,...
We aim to understand whether tremor may be an intrinsic feature of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and individuals with JME plus experience a different disease course. Thirty-one (17 females, mean age = 33.9 ± 13.8 years) 30 onset- gender-matched subjects (21 26.8 11.2 prospectively underwent clinical neurophysiologic assessment, including assessment somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs). All experienced postural action affecting bilateral upper limbs. Nine 31 (29%) were never exposed...
To compare quantitative spectral parameters of visually-normal EEG between Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (MTLE) patients and healthy controls (HC). We enrolled 26 MTLE HC. From each recording we calculated total power all frequency bands determined alpha-theta (ATR) alpha-delta (ADR) ratios in different brain regions. Group-wise differences were investigated (p < 0.05). test for associations spectral-power cognitive status, evaluated correlations neuropsychological tests (qEEG) metrics. In...
Global neuropsychological impairments with intellectual disability (ID) seem to play a major role in the occurrence of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) epilepsy. Conversely, pathophysiology underlying PNES combined epilepsy without ID remains elusive. We investigated neuropsychiatric profile 26 average intelligent subjects (15 women, mean age: 40.04 ± 13.53 years) temporal lobe (TLE) plus (TLE + PNES), compared 28 TLE and 22 alone, matched for age sex. All underwent assessment,...
Abstract Mild mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) patients may remain untreated for a considerable time after disease onset or achieve seizure control with single anti‐seizures medication (ASM). Thus, they represent an optimal population to investigate whether ASMs might have influence on brain structure. We consecutively enrolled 56 mild MTLE (22/56 untreated, 34/56 on‐monotherapy) and 58 healthy controls, matched age gender. All subjects underwent 3T‐brain MRI, using FreeSurfer automated...
Presently, there are no valid biomarkers to identify individuals with eating disorders (ED). The aim of this work was assess the feasibility a machine learning method for extracting reliable neuroimaging features allowing individual categorization patients ED. Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique, combined pattern recognition method, employed utilizing structural magnetic resonance images. Seventeen females ED (six diagnosis anorexia nervosa and 11 bulimia nervosa) were compared against 17...
Aim: We studied occupational stress and its effects on health in a sample of Italian chefs using structural equation modeling (SEM) analytical approach. Methods. In an online study, 710 were recruited through the Chefs Federation. They answered several questionnaires to evaluate whether risk (measured with Karasek's Job Content Questionnaire Siegrist's Effort-Reward Imbalance) correlates quality life prevalence complaints. also sought individual characteristics (age, sex or body mass index)...
Objective Chefs exert expert motor and cognitive performances on a daily basis. Neuroimaging has clearly shown that long-term skill learning (i.e., athletes, musicians, chess player or sommeliers) induces plastic changes in the brain thus enabling tasks to be performed faster more accurately. How chef's expertise is embodied specific neural network never been investigated. Methods Eleven Italian head chefs with brigade management 11 demographically-/ psychologically- matched non-experts...
Abstract Background and purpose Glucose transporter‐1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome (GLUT1‐DS) is a metabolic disorder due to reduced expression of GLUT1, glucose transporter the central nervous system. GLUT1‐DS caused by heterozygous SLC2A1 variants that mostly arise de novo. Here, we report large family with heterogeneous phenotypes related novel variant. Methods We present clinical genetic features five‐generation GLUT1‐DS. Results The 14 (nine living) affected members had phenotypes,...
Objectives . The findings of previous studies focused on personality disorders in epileptic patients are difficult to interpret due nonhomogeneous samples and noncomparable methods. Here, we aimed at studying the profile with mild temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) psychiatric comorbidity. Materials Methods Thirty-five mTLE (22 males, mean age <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"><mml:mn>40.7</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>12.1</mml:mn></mml:math>) underwent awake...