A5043635167- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
University of Padua
2015-2024
Piaggio (Italy)
2018
University of Pisa
2018
AULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana
2011
University of Bologna
1984
In the present study, startle responses during resting states as well presentation of a set emotive slides were recorded from 32-year-old male patient with rare localized lesion right amygdala. The reflex is response modulated by affective states: it has been reliably used in literature to measure aversiveness stimuli. animal shown that circuit this directly influenced amygdala projections. compared those eight age-matched normal subjects. patient's amplitudes showed an overall impaired and...
This study investigated the temporal dynamics of emotional and cognitive processing underlying decision-making in moral judgment. Thirty-seven participants were presented with a set 60 dilemmas varying whether killing one individual was an intended means to save others (instrumental dilemmas) or foreseen but unintended consequence (incidental dilemmas). Participants required decide between Options A (letting specific number people die) B (killing person people). ERPs recorded slide...
The present study describes a patient, M.L., with right orbitofrontal lesion, who showed no impairment on main neuropsychological tests, including those measuring frontal functions. Nevertheless, he had deeply affected emotional responses. In line Damasio's work, the patient lower skin conductance during projection of standardized set slides. Furthermore, altered facial expressions to unpleasant emotions, displaying low corrugator supercilii electromyographical activity associated reduced...
Visual evoked potentials to emotional slides presented for 2 sec. were investigated in 13 subjects. 73 (pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral) selected from a standardized set of photographic slides, the 1988 International Affective Picture System Lang, Öhman, Vaitl. recorded three head locations, frontal, central parietal (Fz, Cz, Pz). Analyses performed two latency ranges: 300–400 msec. 400–500 showed an arousal effect, as indicated by quadratic trend, indicating that (both pleasant...
Background: A large body of literature sustains the association between long-lasting caregiving for impaired significant others and increased health risk. Depression, elevated heart rate, blood pressure at rest are key measures risk, mostly cardiovascular, which have been generally studied in caregivers patients affected by dementia or chronic illness. Limited research has conducted on emotional cardiovascular impact family terminally ill cancer patients. Objective: The aim present study was...
A differential conditioning design using an aversive slide as conditioned stimulus (CS(+)) that was followed by intracutaneous electric to the left index finger unconditioned (US) and a pleasant not shock (CS(-)) were used test hypothesis of enhanced muscular responses in chronic back pain patients (CBP). Heart rate, skin conductance levels, integrated surface electromyograms (EMG) from right m. flexor digitorum, trapezius, bilaterally orbicularis oculi recorded. The electroencephalogram...
The capability model of alpha asymmetries posits that state emotional manipulations are a more powerful detector depression-related motivational deficits than activity at rest. present study used time-frequency approach to investigate the temporal dynamics event-related changes in power during passive viewing pictures individuals with dysphoria (n = 23) and without 24). In whole group, processing pleasant unpleasant compared neutral was associated decrease (i.e., desynchronization)...
Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) mirrors cardiac autonomic modulation, an index of well-being. Reduced HRV has been reported in depression, but few studies investigated individuals at-risk or remitted from a full-blown depressive episode. The present study aimed at examining whether reduced could be potential indicator vulnerability to depression. Methods: Self-reported psychological measures and three-minute resting-state ECG were collected two populations [group with dysphoria (n =...
This extension study investigated the association between preoperative cerebral blood flow (CBF) velocity and postoperative cognitive decline (POCD) at a three-month follow-up in patients who underwent cardiac surgery. Continuous transcranial Doppler ultrasound on both middle arteries (MCAs) was used preoperatively 31 right-handed surgery rest. Each patient performed neuropsychological evaluation to assess performance before surgery, discharge follow-up. Patients with POCD had marginally...