Acquired cerebellar lesions in adults and children can lead to the development of a complex behavioural pattern termed 'Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome' (Schmahmann Sherman, Brain, 1998; 121: 561-79), which is characterized by reduced cognitive efficiency associated with specific neuropsychological deficits (executive visuospatial disorders), expressive language disorders (mild agrammatism anomia) affective blunting affect. It not known whether symptomatological picture such as this...

The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent public health measures were shown to impact negatively on people’s mental health. In particular, women reported be at higher risk than men of developing symptoms stress/anxiety/depression, resilience was considered a key factor for positive outcomes. the present study, sample Italian female teachers (n = 66, age: 51.5 ± 7.9 years) assessed with self-report instruments one month before after start lockdown: mindfulness skills, empathy, personality...

Cerebral lesions may alter the capability of bilingual subjects to separate their languages and use each language in appropriate contexts. Patients who show pathological mixing intermingle different within a single utterance. By contrast, patients affected by switching alternate across utterances (a self contained segment speech that stands on its own conveys independent meaning). Cases have been reported after left temporoparietal lobe. information neural loci involved is scarce. In this...

Perception of the final position a moving object or creature is distorted forward along its actual implied motion path, thus enabling anticipation forthcoming position. In previous research, we demonstrated that viewing static snapshots imply body actions activates human motor system. What remains unknown, however, whether extrapolation dynamic information and activation are higher for upcoming than past action phases. By using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation, found...

The brain network governing meditation has been studied using a variety of practices and techniques eliciting different cognitive processes (e.g., silence, attention to own body, sense joy, mantras, etc.). It is very possible that are subserved by largely, if not entirely, disparate networks. This assumption was tested conducting an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis neuroimaging studies, which assessed 150 foci from 24 experiments. Different ALE meta-analyses were carried...

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Mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly being used as methods to promote psychological well-being of clinical and non-clinical adult populations. Much less is known, however, on the feasibility these forms mental training healthy primary school students. Here, we tested effects a mindfulness-meditation group 16 children within 7-8 years age from an Italian school. An active control condition focused emotion awareness was employed 15 age-matched same Both programs were delivered by...

Patients affected by brain tumours may show behavioural and emotional regulation deficits, sometimes showing flattened affect experiencing a true 'change' in personality. However, little evidence is available to the surgeon as what changes are likely occur with damage at specific sites, previous studies have either relied on single cases or provided only limited anatomical specificity, mostly reporting associations rather than dissociations of symptoms. We investigated these aspects patients...

The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown have profoundly impacted families' daily life, challenging their psychological resilience. Our study aimed to investigate immediate consequences of pandemic on Italian parents children focusing internalizing post-traumatic symptoms. We also wanted explore impact possible risk resilience factors, e.g., lifestyle behaviors, emotional cognitive beliefs, children's reaction emergency distress. An online survey was administered during country's...

Language representation in the bilingual brain is result of many factors, which age appropriation (AoA) and proficiency second language (L2) are probably most studied. Many studies indeed compare early late bilinguals, although it not yet clear what role so-called critical period L2 is. In this study, we carried out coordinate-based meta-analyses to address issue inspect addition that AoA. After preliminary inspection (also very early) bilinguals' networks, explored specific activations...

The 8-week mindfulness meditation (MM) trainings have proven to be helpful for reducing burnout due work-related stress. Most studies reported these positive effects with evaluations made immediately before and after the therapeutic interventions. Little is known, however, about symptoms of in months following interventions.In our exploratory study, an MM training were assessed a group health care professionals (n = 19) vulnerability develop burnout; 9-month follow-up was conducted on...

Journal Article Verbal Memory During Simultaneous Interpretation: Effects of Phonological Interference Get access VALERIA DARÒ, DARÒ University Trieste Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FRANCO FABBRO Applied Linguistics, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 1994, Pages 365–381, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/15.4.365 Published: 01 1994 history Revision received: March

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies report that viewing a given action performed by model activates the neural representation of onlooker's muscles are activated during actual execution observed action. Here we sought to determine whether this mirror observation-execution facilitation reflects only muscular specificity or it is also influenced postural congruency between onlooker/model body parts. We recorded motor potentials evoked single-pulse TMS from first dorsal interosseous...

We report on the neuropsychological and neurolinguistic features of a bilingual patient, E.M., who presented with an uncommon pattern aphasic deficit consequent to subcortical lesions mainly involving left basal ganglia. Not only are reports aphasia rare, but E.M.'s is particularly for it concerns most used mother tongue (Venetian) much more than less practiced second language (standard Italian). In this linguistic in production has been observed spontaneous speech cross translation tasks,...

IN monolinguals, not only cortical areas but also specific subcortical structures are crucial for language and speech processing. While the role of left basal ganglia in monolingual aphasia has been defined, its relevance bilingual polyglot is still unknown. Data have now obtained on a patient who, following an ischaemic lesion involving mainly confined to ganglia, showed severe impairments mother tongue production, with significantly better performance her hardly spoken second language....