A5077949586- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Child Therapy and Development
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Psychology and Mental Health
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
University of Naples Federico II
1999-2023
Ospedale Civile di Vittorio Veneto
2022
University of Basilicata
2016-2020
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
1999-2020
Università degli Studi di Enna Kore
2020
Federico II University Hospital
2020
University of Foggia
2018-2019
Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata
2018
Gestione Sistemi per l’Informatica (Italy)
2012
Psychotherapeutic supervision is crucial for the quality of development professionals and promotion well-being therapeutic effectiveness trainees. Emerging computational technologies can offer new potentials to practice. The aim this paper test current capabilities GPT-4 linguistic model support work psychotherapists, providing secondary complementary feedback supervision. This represents initial phase (phase 0) useful laying foundations adequately calibrating methodology a future more...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree insight and resistance in a sample obsessive-compulsive patients, predictive value poor with respect response treatment serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs). Ninety-three patients fulfilling DSM-IV criteria for disorder were evaluated. Seventy treated an SRI 24-week open-label trial. Sixteen percent did not recognize obsessions compulsions as unreasonable or senseless. Fifty-two try resist, 72% had little no control over obsessions, 64% able...
Depression is one of the most serious chronic psychiatric disorders affecting people worldwide. Subthreshold depression (SD) a form subclinical with increased risk major depressive disorder (MDD). Patients diagnosed SD may not be eligible for antidepressant drugs and, particularly in case MDD, these antidepressants have adverse effects which outweigh their therapeutic effects, leading to discontinuation therapy. Food supplements could provide an alternative strategy. The aim this study...
Clinical supervision is essential for trainees, preventing burnout and ensuring the effectiveness of their interventions. AI technologies offer increasing possibilities developing clinical practices, with being particularly suited automation. The aim this study to evaluate feasibility using ChatGPT-4 as a supervisory tool in psychotherapy training. To achieve this, case was presented three distinct groups (untrained AI, pre-trained qualified human supervisor), feedback evaluated by Gestalt...
Providing remote psychotherapy using technology is a growing practice, especially since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Even if in numerous studies video conferencing (VCP) was found to be clinically effective, some doubts continue exist about how psychotherapeutic alliance works online setting, and characteristics empathic process are still poorly understood. This an exploratory study aimed at analyzing degree empathy between psychotherapist client pair, support perceived by who shall...
Background: Although different personality traits have often been associated with levels of mental activity and cognitive functioning, no previous studies evaluated the association in a sample that mirrors nationally-representative elderly individuals. Objective: To evaluate between neurocognitive functioning among individuals 51 years older using Cognition Aging USA (CogUSA) database. Methods: We analyzed scores derived from Waves I II study. Neurocognitive functions were modeled as an...
This paper presents a procedure that aims to combine explanatory and predictive modeling for the construction of new psychometric questionnaires based on psychological neuroscientific theoretical grounding. It methodology results items selection considers both power theory modern computational techniques, namely exploratory data analysis investigating dimensional structure artificial neural networks (ANNs) predicting psychopathological diagnosis clinical subjects. Such blending allows...
The covid-19 lockdown forced psychotherapists to use videoconferencing psychotherapy (VCP). There is little literature on the relationship between VCP and theoretical orientation of psychotherapist. aim our research work explore what extent Italian therapists used how they experienced change in setting during lockdown. A sample completed an on-line questionnaire including data about any previous experience remote work, information changes their opinions this experience. In second phase, a...
The study describes the relationship between personality traits and executive functions within a circularly based paradigm.
The intent of our study, conducted on a sample 98 psychiatric outpatients, was to explore the correlations between executive functions and traits temperament character. Executive were assessed through Frontal Assessment Battery character using Temperament Character Inventory. From sample, significant link certain lower efficiency some specific higher others clearly emerge. interpretation that we propose data which emerges from study appears be coherent with modern vision mental phenomena...
Starting with the provision of ready-to-use infrastructures, such as storage and compute resources, cloud computing quickly became a flexible, cost-effective complete environment for wide range IT services offered over Internet. A growing number providers started to expose their own market, answer consumer's need, engaging competition in attempt offer easiest access resources wider catalogue services. Being integrated proprietary these offerings makes difficult switch between different...
Dissociative phenomena are common among psychiatric patients; the presence of these symptoms can worsen prognosis, increasing severity their clinical conditions and exposing them to increased risk suicidal behavior. Personality disorders as long duration stressful experiences may support development dissociative phenomena. In 933 outpatients consecutively recruited, was identified with Experience Scale (DES). were significantly more severe in group people mental and/or personality disorders....
Abstract Plants, including cocoa bean, are the main source of metabolites with multiple biological functions. Polyphenol extracts widely used as a nutraceutical supplement for their well‐known health‐promoting role. In this paper, preliminary untargeted metabolic screening was carried out by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)‐time flight (TOF)/TOF on pool chocolate samples made beans different geographical areas. Then, targeted approach developed polyphenol quantification an...
Several studies investigate empathy as the ability to understand and share a person's emotional states. Recent researches explore phenomenological peculiarity of empathy. The present work is review existing scientific literature about construct empathy, paying specific attention new methods it. Particularly, study presents form measurement: virtual reality (VR). This proposes hypothesis research, in order test possibility increase using VR subjects with diagnosis Personality Disorder...
Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious mental disease, classified in Cluster B of DSM IV-TR personality disorders. People with this syndrome presents an anamnesis traumatic experiences and shows dissociative symptoms. Since not all subjects who have been victims trauma develop Disorder, the emergence disease seems to fragility character as predisposing condition. Infect, numerous studies show that positive for diagnosis had scores extremely high or low some temperamental dimensions...
During the last period of lockdown because Covid-19 pandemic influence, a lot mental health professionals were able to continue working online, assisting their patients from home too. Even if there are still some doubts about videoconferencing psychotherapy (VCP), studies indicate that VCP can be feasible and clinically effective, in fact online therapy is becoming increasingly popular, reducing distances even during current pandemic. The aim this study analyze degree satisfaction after...
The existence of an unaware psychic space that influences the way we think, perceive, and decide has been known for over a century. This space, defined by Freud as "unconscious," contains in itself contents. Its sophisticated adaptive functions, implicit unaware, allow individuals to transform enormous amount information into explicit behaviors, influencing their behaviors. In this article, advance hypothesis there is strong relationship between unconscious, personality styles, decisions...
Clinical supervision is an essential element in trainees, preventing burnout and ensuring the effectiveness of their intervention. AI technologies offer increasing possibilities for development clinical practices, among it appears to possess ideal characteristics automation processes. In this study we test capabilities ChatGPT-4 provide supervisory feedback by then placing them comparison with produced a qualified supervisor. Two ChatGPT-4-generated feedbacks (the first one naïve identity...
This paper shows a high quality artificial cognitive capability, proposing an experimental study for the implementation of intelligent affective computing monitoring system, based on machine learning emotion classification.Affective is research direction that aspires to bring communication between humans and machines new level. possible by enabling perceive exhibit human-like qualities (e.g., facial expressions, bodily gestures vocal qualities) during [1].The proposal applied in...