A5090572063- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mind wandering and attention
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Mental Health Research Topics
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University of Pisa
2016-2025
University of Trento
2024
Piaggio (Italy)
2023
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano
2016
University of Siena
1998-2006
Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica
1981-2003
National Research Council
1995-2003
This article summarizes key advances in hypnosis research during the past two decades, including (i) clinical supporting efficacy of for managing a number symptoms and conditions, (ii) role various divisions anterior cingulate prefrontal cortices hypnotic responding, (iii) an emerging finding that high suggestibility is associated with atypical brain connectivity profiles. Key recommendations agenda next decade include laboratory researchers should strongly consider how they assess their...
Nociceptive electrical stimuli were applied to the sural nerve during hypnotically-suggested analgesia in left lower limb of 18 highly susceptible subjects. During this procedure, verbally reported pain threshold, nociceptive flexion (RIII) reflex and late somatosensory evoked potentials investigated parallel with autonomic responses spontaneous electroencephalogram (EEG). The hypnotic suggestion induced a significant increase threshold all selected All subjects showed large changes (i.e.,...
Abstract The hypnotizability‐related differences in morpho‐functional characteristics of the insula could at least partially account for interoceptive accuracy (IA) observed between high and low hypnotizable individuals (highs, lows). Our aim was to investigate processing highs, lows, medium (mediums), who represent most population, during a 10‐minute open eyes relaxation condition (Part 1) three repetitions consecutive 2‐minute eyes, closed heartbeat counting conditions, followed by...
Purpose: The cerebellum is involved in a wide number of integrative functions, but its role pain experience and the nociceptive information processing poorly understood. In healthy volunteers we evaluated effects transcranial cerebellar direct current stimulation (tcDCS) by studyin g changes perceptive threshold, intensity at given intensities (VAS:0-10) laser evoked potentials (LEPs) variables (N1 N2/P2 amplitudes latencies). Methods: Fifteen subjects were studied before after anodal,...
Hypnotizability-related differences in interoception may be relevant to emotion regulation. The present study examined the relationships between hypnotizability, interoceptive sensibility (IS) and accuracy (IA), use of cognitive reappraisal expressive suppression. One hundred two healthy volunteers, assessed for completed questionnaires assessing absorption, state anxiety, IS A portion them (N = 62) participated heartbeat counting task, measuring IA. was positively associated with...
Background and Objectives: Sport practice, performance satisfaction, interoception influence physical mental health. Motor imagery (MI) training improves sensorimotor cognitive–emotional functions. This study aimed to (a) compare sedentary artistic gymnastics-practicing young females (b) evaluate the changes in satisfaction occurring participants after one month of motor training. Materials Methods: The difference interoceptive accuracy (IA) sensibility (IS) between (Control group, C, n =...
Mental stress induces endothelial dysfunction, that is a reduction of the post-occlusion brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD). This does not occur in subjects highly susceptible to hypnosis (Highs) either waking or hypnotic state. The aim present experiment was assess whether dysfunction also induced by acute nociceptive stimulation and high hypnotisability and/or specific instruction analgesia prevent its occurrence awake hypnotizable individuals. Thus, nine Highs with low...
The aim of this article is to complement the recently revised American Psychological Association (APA) definition hypnotizability. It (a) lists a few differences in sensorimotor integration between subjects with high (highs) and low (lows) hypnotizability scores ordinary state consciousness absence suggestions, (b) proposes that hypnotizability-related cerebellar peculiarities may account for them,
Hypnotizability is a psychophysiological trait measured by scales and associated with several differences, including interoceptive accuracy the morpho-functional characteristics of interoception-related brain regions. The aim study was to assess whether amplitude heartbeat evoked cortical potential (HEP), correlate accuracy, differs in participants low (lows) high (highs) hypnotizability scores (assessed Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form A) before after induction hypnosis. ECG EEG...
OPINION article Front. Behav. Neurosci., 24 June 2014Sec. Motivation and Reward Volume 8 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00224
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...
Mean values and the spectral variability of heart rate (HRV), blood pressure, skin flow were studied in high low hypnotizable subjects during simple relaxation. Similar subjective relaxation was reported by highs lows. A parasympathetic prevalence (indicated a higher High-Frequency component HRV lower High/Low-Frequency ratio) renin-angiotensin activity Very-Low-Frequency HRV) could be attributed to with respect Hypnotizability did not affect pressure its modulated across session only The...
Higher brain dopamine content depending on lower activity of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) in subjects with high hypnotisability scores (highs) has been considered responsible for their attentional characteristics. However, the results previous genetic studies association between and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs4680 (Val158Met) were inconsistent. Here, we used a selective genotyping approach to re-evaluate COMT context two-SNP haplotype analysis, considering not only...
This study aimed to measure the interoceptive accuracy (IA) of individuals with high (highs), medium (mediums), and low hypnotizability (lows) through heartbeat-counting task during 3 relaxation trials. Participants completed Multidimensional Assessment Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), ECG skin conductance (SC) were monitored, experienced difficulty in counting was reported. Results showed similar number actual heartbeats highs, mediums, lows. SC decreased highs all trials, mediums lows only...