A5044143972- Face Recognition and Perception
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Face recognition and analysis
- Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- Face and Expression Recognition
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
- Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
- Lipid metabolism and disorders
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
Azienda USL di Bologna
2020-2025
Resonance Research (United States)
2018-2024
University of Minnesota
2018-2024
University of Bologna
2009-2021
Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi
2013-2021
University of Glasgow
2009-2015
University of Fribourg
2013-2015
Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
2011-2014
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
2011
Federico II University Hospital
1999
Sarcopenia and myosteatosis are common in patients with cirrhosis. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of these muscle changes, their interrelations prognostic impact over a 12-month period.
Abstract Reading the non‐verbal cues from faces to infer emotional states of others is central our daily social interactions very early in life. Despite relatively well‐documented ontogeny facial expression recognition infancy, understanding development this critical skill throughout childhood into adulthood remains limited. To end, using a psychophysical approach we implemented QUEST threshold‐seeking algorithm parametrically manipulate quantity signals available normalized for contrast and...
Face recognition is not rooted in a universal eye movement information-gathering strategy. Western observers favor local facial feature sampling strategy, whereas Eastern prefer face information from global, central fixation Yet, the precise qualitative (the diagnostic) and quantitative amount) underlying these cultural perceptual biases remains undetermined. To this end, we monitored movements of during task, with novel gaze-contingent technique: Expanding Spotlight. We used 2° Gaussian...
Significance We addressed the open question of how human brain recognizes personally familiar faces. A dynamic visual-stimulation paradigm revealed that face recognition is achieved first and foremost in medial anterior temporal regions extended face-processing system. These regions, including amygdala, respond categorically to individual In contrast, activation posterior core face-preferential associated with amount visual information available, irrespective familiarity. Through integration...
Abstract Background To assess the impact of attaining aggressive beta-lactam pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) targets on clinical efficacy in critical orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients with documented early Gram-negative infections. Methods OLT admitted to post-transplant ICU between June 2021 and May 2024 having infections treated targeted therapy continuous infusion (CI) beta-lactams, undergoing therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)-guided dosing adjustment first 72 hours...
Current data have shown that lung ultrasound (LUS) may be useful in the detection of interstitial disease (ILD) by evaluation B-lines, sonographic marker pulmonary syndrome. Nevertheless, no prospective study has compared LUS to chest X-ray (CXR) for ILD assessment, and there is general agreement on specific echographic diagnostic criteria defining ILD.The aims this were (1) compare accuracy CXR using high-resolution CT (HRCT) as gold standard (2) different diagnosis.LUS was performed 104...
Human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) is critical for visual recognition. It thought that this ability supported by large-scale patterns of activity across VTC contain information about categories. However, it unknown how category representations in are organized at the submillimeter scale and cortical depths. To fill gap knowledge, we measured BOLD responses medial lateral to images spanning 10 categories from five domains (written characters, bodies, faces, places, objects) an ultra-high...
Small changes of bilirubin and liver enzymes are often detected during the acute phase stroke, but their origin significance still poorly understood.On days 0, 3, 7, 14 after admission, 180 patients with ischemic stroke underwent serial determinations bilirubin, GOT, GPT, γGT, alkaline phosphatase, C-reactive protein (CRP) complete blood count. On 0 7 common bile duct diameter was measured by ultrasound, on day 3 cerebral infarct volume (IV) calculated from CT scan slices.During first week...
Age-associated changes in the pulmonary system could be detected with imaging techniques. Widespread use of lung ultrasonography (US) requires characterization a normal pattern.To compare US and computed tomography (CT) findings healthy subjects undergoing both techniques (with CT as gold standard).We prospectively selected 59 chest on same day, without history smoking, respiratory symptoms, or known pathologies. There were 44 patients group 1 (age ≥60 years - elderly) 15 2 ≤50 young). Lung...
The adoption of a standardized preprocessing workflow is vital for fostering community, sharing, and reproducibility. fMRIPrep has been critical advancement towards this end, however, it limited in its capacity to be applied data across the lifespan, starting from infancy. Here, we introduce Lifespan, an extension that extends processing childhood senescence include neonatal, infant, toddler structural functional MRI preprocessing. This effort involves NiPreps integration 1) akin optimized...
Abstract Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has emerged as an essential tool for exploring human brain function. Submillimeter fMRI, in particular, a to study mesoscopic computations. The inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at submillimeter resolutions warrants the use of denoising approaches tailored reducing thermal noise—the dominant contributing noise component high-resolution fMRI. NOise Reduction with DIstribution Corrected Principal Component Analysis (NORDIC PCA) is...
We describe a patient with liver metastases from colorectal cancer treated chemotherapy and hepatic resection, who developed unresectable multifocal recurrence received transplantation using novel planned technique: heterotopic of segment 2-3 in the splenic fossa splenectomy delayed hepatectomy after regeneration transplanted graft. segmental graft in-situ splitting without any impact on waiting list, as it was previously rejected for pediatric adult transplantation. The volume insufficient...
Social experience and cultural factors shape the strategies used to extract information from faces. These external forces however do not modulate use. Using a gaze-contingent technique that restricts outside fovea - Spotlight we recently showed humans rely on identical face (i.e., eye mouth regions) achieve human recognition (Caldara, Zhou Miellet, 2010). Although allows precise identification of diagnostic required for processing qualitative information), amount quantitative information)...
Several studies have sought factors predictive of early neurological deterioration during acute stroke; however, no study carried out a systematic search for capable predicting improvement. This investigation is aimed at identifying the variables associated with short-term improvement in patients ischemic stroke not undergoing thrombolysis.Two-hundred and fifty-two were retrospectively examined (mean age: 76.7 ± 10.6 years, 120 males, median delay admission 8 hours). Stroke severity was...
Background and AimsNonselective beta-blockers (NSBBs) can lower the risk of first decompensation in patients with cirrhosis clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) (identified by a hepatic venous pressure gradient ≥10 mm Hg) active etiology. Our aim was to examine effect NSBBs on occurrence enduring CSPH after etiological treatment.MethodsPatients compensated clinical evidence (gastroesophageal varices [GEVs] and/or spontaneous portosystemic collaterals [SPSSs]) 2 years from...
Abstract Human herpesvirus‐8 (HHV‐8) infection is associated with neoplastic and non‐neoplastic diseases in immunocompromised patients. Kaposi sarcoma (KS) a common malignancy reported solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR). inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS), initially described HIV patients, characterized by high viral loads, elevated levels of cytokines, cytopenia, fever, failure, poor outcome. We report the case 54‐year‐old patient who developed simultaneous occurrence KS lymph...