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| Martina AmanzioSummaryAffiliation: University of Turin Country: Italy Publications
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Metaphor comprehension in Alzheimer's disease: novelty mattersMartina Amanzio
Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Via Verdi 10, 10123 Torino, Italy
Brain Lang 107:1-10. 2008..The present findings suggest a role of the prefrontal cortex in novel metaphor comprehension...
A systematic review of adverse events in placebo groups of anti-migraine clinical trialsMartina Amanzio
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Verdi 10, 10123 Turin, Italy
Pain 146:261-9. 2009..These findings are in accordance with the expectation theory of placebo and nocebo effects...
Impaired awareness of movement disorders in Parkinson's diseaseMartina Amanzio
Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Via Verdi 10, 10123 Torino, Italy Neuroscience Institute of Turin, NIT, University of Torino, Italy
Brain Cogn 72:337-46. 2010....
Unawareness of deficits in Alzheimer's disease: role of the cingulate cortexMartina Amanzio
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Verdi 10, 10123 Turin, Italy
Brain 134:1061-76. 2011..Furthermore, in line with previous findings, we also found apathy and disinhibition to be prominent features of the first behavioural changes in unaware patients...
The biochemical and neuroendocrine bases of the hyperalgesic nocebo effectFabrizio Benedetti
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, 10125 Turin, Italy
J Neurosci 26:12014-22. 2006....
Disruption of opioid-induced placebo responses by activation of cholecystokinin type-2 receptorsFabrizio Benedetti
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School and National Institute of Neuroscience INN, Turin, Italy
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 213:791-7. 2011..Placebos are known to induce analgesia through the activation of ?-opioid receptors in some circumstances, such as after morphine pre-conditioning, an effect that is blocked by opioid antagonists...
The placebo response: how words and rituals change the patient's brainFabrizio Benedetti
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy
Patient Educ Couns 84:413-9. 2011..The study of the placebo effect and of its negative counterpart, the nocebo effect, is basically the study of the psychosocial context around the treatment and the patient, and it plays a crucial role in the therapeutic outcome...
Do we need a new procedure for the assessment of adverse events in anti-migraine clinical trials?Martina Amanzio
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute of Torino NIT, University of Torino, Via Verdi 10, 10123 Torino, Italy
Recent Pat CNS Drug Discov 6:41-7. 2011..This paper discusses how these ideas may be helpful in the assessment of adverse events in active and placebo groups...
