A5057052294- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Face Recognition and Perception
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Meningioma and schwannoma management
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
2019-2025
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri
2021-2025
University of Milano-Bicocca
2011-2021
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
2017
University of York
2012-2013
University of Hull
2013
Hull York Medical School
2013
Increasing evidence shows that anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhances cognitive performance in healthy and clinical population. Such facilitation is supposed to be linked plastic changes at relevant cortical sites. However, electrophysiological for this causal relationship still missing. Here, we show enhancement occurring human subjects during tDCS affected by ongoing brain activity, increasing excitability of task-related networks only, as directly measured...
Abstract The functional consequences of focal brain injury are thought to be contingent on neuronal alterations extending beyond the area structural damage. This phenomenon, also known as diaschisis, has clinical and metabolic correlates but lacks a clear electrophysiological counterpart, except for long-standing evidence relative EEG slowing over injured hemisphere. Here, we aim at testing whether this is linked pathological intrusion sleep-like cortical dynamics within an awake brain. We...
The amygdala is known to play an important role in the response facial expressions that convey fear. However, it remains unclear whether amygdala's fear reflects its interpretation of danger and threat, or some extent activated by all emotion. Previous attempts address this issue using neuroimaging have been confounded differences use control stimuli across studies. Here, we a block design functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm, which compared face images posing fear, anger,...
The extensive use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in experimental and clinical settings does not correspond to an in-depth understanding its underlying neurophysiological mechanisms. In previous studies, we employed integrated system Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) track the effect tDCS on cortical excitability. At rest, anodal (a-tDCS) over right Posterior Parietal Cortex (rPPC) elicits a widespread increase contrast, cathodal (c-tDCS)...
Emotion processing impairment is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Previous literature reported conflicting results concerning, particular, the performance for different emotions, relation with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms affected stage of processing. This study aims at assessing emotion recognition discrimination PD. Recognition six facial expressions was studied order to clarify its relationship motor, symptoms. Sensitivity discriminating happy fearful...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to counteract it have highlighted role of individual differences in evaluating reacting emergencies, challenges inherent promoting precautionary behaviours. We aimed explore psychological cognitive factors modulating behaviour intentions during national lockdown Italy. administered an online questionnaire (N = 244) that included tests for assessing personality traits (Temperament Character Inventory; Locus Control Behaviour) moral judgment (Moral...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is increasingly used in both research and therapeutic settings, but its precise mechanisms remain largely unknown. At a neuronal level, tDCS modulates cortical excitability by shifting the resting membrane potential polarity-dependent way: anodal increases spontaneous firing rate, while cathodal decreases it. However, neurophysiological underpinnings of anodal/cathodal seem to be different, as well their behavioral effect, particular when high...
Emotion processing impairments are common in patients undergoing brain surgery for fronto‐temporal tumour resection, with potential consequences on social interactions. However, evidence is controversial concerning side and site of lesions causing such deficits. This study investigates visual auditory emotion recognition the aim clarifying which lesion sites related to from different modalities. Thirty‐four were evaluated, before after surgery, facial expression emotional prosody...
Abstract It has been suggested that the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) may play an important role in several aspects of language processing such as visual object recognition, memory, lexical retrieval, reading, and specifically, naming stimuli. In particular, ILF appears to convey information from occipital lobe anterior temporal (ATL). However, direct evidence proving essential semantics remains limited controversial. The first aim this study was prove patients with a brain glioma...
Abstract Aims Patients with affective and non-affective psychoses show impairments in both the identification discrimination of facial affect, which can significantly reduce their quality life. The aim this commentary is to present strengths weaknesses available instruments for a more careful evaluation different stages emotion processing clinical experimental studies on patients psychoses. Methods We reviewed existing literature identify tests used assess ability recognise (e.g. Ekman...
Previous evidence suggested that chronic pain is characterized by cognitive deficits, particularly in the social cognition domain. Recently, a new classification has been proposed distinguishing primary (CPP), which cause of patients’ disease, and secondary (CSP), to an underlying illness. The present study aimed at investigating profiles two disorders. We included 38 CPP, 43 CSP patients, 41 healthy controls (HC). Social was assessed with Ekman-60 faces test (Ekman-60F) Story-Based Empathy...