A5030659528- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
- Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
2018-2023
Sapienza University of Rome
2019-2022
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2020
Abstract We induced placebo analgesia (PA), a phenomenon explicitly attenuating the self-pain feeling, to assess whether this resulted in reduced empathy pain when witnessing confederate undergoing such experience. recorded EEG and electrocardiogram during painful Control PA treatment healthy adults who rated their experienced for pain. derived HRV changes and, using wavelet analysis of non-phase-locked event-related oscillations, spectral power differences other-pain conditions. First-hand...
A previous study showed that about 80% of Italian adolescents reported isolated symptoms acute or post-traumatic stress during the first lockdown in Italy. We proposed a new questionnaire to investigate presence related anxiety, panic, depression, eating disorders, sleep social withdrawal, psychotic symptoms, anti-conservative thoughts, and self-harming acts aggravated by COVID-19 restrictions possible differences between males females. 500 (12-18 years) completed an online survey created...
Abstract Background Tactile maneuvers stimulating spontaneous respiratory activity in preterm infants are recommended since birth, but data on how and often these applied clinical practice unknown. In the last years, most newborns with failure preferentially managed non-invasive support by from delivery room neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), order to avoid risks of intubation prolonged mechanical ventilation. Methods Preterm gestational age < 31 weeks not intubated requiring at birth...
This study evaluates the modulation of phasic pain and empathy for induced by placebo analgesia during tasks. Because can be conceptualized as a dangerous stimulus that generates avoidance, we evaluated how approach avoidance personality traits modulate responses. We to test whether this also reduces self-pain other pain. Amplitude measures N1, P2, P3 ERPs components, elicited electric stimulations, were obtained painful control, well treatment expected induce analgesia. The produced...
This study explored the electrocortical correlates of conscious and nonconscious perceptions emotionally laden faces in neurotypical adult women with varying levels autistic-like traits (Autism Spectrum Quotient-AQ). Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during viewing backward-masked images for happy, neutral, sad presented either below (16 ms-subliminal) or above level visual awareness (167 ms-supraliminal). Sad compared to happy elicited larger frontal-central N1, N2, occipital P3...
We tested the role of hypnotic suggestibility, involuntariness, pain expectation, and subjective depth in prediction placebo analgesia (PA) responsiveness. also link lower upper alpha sub-band (i.e., 'alpha1' 'alpha2') power changes with tonic PA responding during waking hypnosis conditions. Following an initial manipulation condition, we recorded EEG activity under two treatments: (1) painful stimulation (Pain); (2) after application a cream. Alpha1 alpha2 were derived using individual...
Previously published models of frontal activity linked high relative left to the behavioral approach system (BAS) and impulsivity. Additionally, these did not account for BAS facets encompassing anticipation reward, i.e., goal-driven persistence (BAS–GDP) reward interest (BAS–RI), from those that deal with actual hedonic experience reactivity (BAS–RR) impulsivity (BAS–I). Using resting electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings, source localization (LORETA) method allowed us calculate...
This study explored the electrocortical correlates of conscious and nonconscious perceptions emotionally laden faces in neurotypical adult women with varying levels autistic-like traits (Autism Spectrum Quotient - AQ). Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during viewing backward-masked images for happy, neutral, sad presented either below (16 ms subliminal) or above level visual awareness (167 supraliminal). Sad compared to happy elicited larger frontal-central N1, N2, occipital P3...
Abstract Background: Tactile maneuvers stimulating spontaneous respiratory activity in preterm infants are recommended since birth, but data on how and often these applied clinical practice unknown. In the last years, most newborns with failure preferentially managed non-invasive support by from delivery room Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), order to avoid risks of intubation prolonged mechanical ventilation. Methods: Preterm gestational age ≤ 30 weeks not intubated requiring at birth...
Preterm infants can develop many complications related to organs underdevelopment. Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is considered the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients. Traditional therapies for severe RDS, such as mechanical ventilation, come with a potential risk pneumothorax bronchopulmonary dysplasia while evidence on chest physiotherapy preterm are controversial terms feasibility, tolerability safety. The use positive expiratory pressure (PEP) mask...
Tactile stimulation manoeuvres stimulate spontaneous breathing in preterm newborns. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect early respiratory physiotherapy on need for mechanical ventilation during first week life infants with failure.This a monocentric, randomised controlled trial. Preterm (gestational age ≤ 30 weeks) not intubated delivery room and requiring non-invasive support at birth were eligible study. intervention group received physiotherapy, while control only daily...
Abstract We induced placebo analgesia (PA), a phenomenon explicitly attenuating the self-pain feeling, to assess whether this resulted in reduced empathy pain when witnessing confederate undergoing such experience. recorded EEG and electrocardiogram during painful control PA treatment healthy adults who rated their experienced for pain. derived HRV changes and, using wavelet analysis of non-phase-locked event-related oscillations, spectral power differences other-pain conditions. First-hand...