A5038577480- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
University of Vienna
1968-2024
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2011-2014
University of Siena
2007-2011
Little is known about the neural bases of hypnotic suggestibility, a cognitive trait referring to tendency respond suggestions. In present magnetic resonance imaging study, we performed regression analyses assess suggestibility-related differences in local gray matter volume, using voxel-based morphometry, and waking resting state functional connectivity 10 networks, 37 healthy women. Hypnotic suggestibility was positively correlated with volume portions left superior medial frontal gyri,...
Identifying personality traits and neural signatures that predict placebo responsiveness is important, both on theoretical practical grounds. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we performed multiple-regression interaction analysis to investigate whether hypnotic susceptibility (HS), a cognitive trait referring suggestions, explains interindividual differences in mechanisms related conditioned analgesia healthy volunteers. HS was not overall strength of...
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...
The use of unidimensional scales to measure pain intensity has been criticised because the multidimensional nature pain. We conducted multiple linear regression analyses determine which dimensions pain--sensory versus affective--predicted scores on measuring and emotions in 109 Italian women suffering from chronic, non-malignant musculoskeletal then compared results with earlier findings two groups cancer patients acute post-operative chronic cancer-related pain, respectively. Age, physical...
Abstract We discuss the role of hypnotizability in development and treatment chronic pain, prognosis its possible cardiovascular consequences. Data indicate that high hypnotic susceptibility is not necessary for relief pain obtained through treatment. Moreover, at variance with an earlier hypothesis, being highly susceptible to hypnosis does represent a higher risk developing pain; addition, may be favourable protective factor against consequences pain. However, we cannot exclude...
Abstract In highly hypnotizable individuals (highs), postural control is more independent of sensory information than in low subjects (lows). The aim the study was to find out whether locomotion also less affected highs lows by visual suppression and changes neck proprioceptive input. Eighteen 20 were asked walk straight ahead, blindfolded, basal conditions (face forward), during real imagined right/left head rotation mental computation. Highs detected deviations from trajectory better lows....
Vicarious learning, i.e. learning through observing others rather than one’s own experiences, is an integral skill of social species. The aim this study was to assess the causal role affect sharing, important aspect empathy, in vicarious fear learning. N = 39 participants completed a Pavlovian conditioning paradigm. In stage, they watched another person–the demonstrator–responding with distress when receiving electric shocks color cue (conditioned stimulus; CS+; different served as CS-)....