Francesco Versace

Summary

Affiliation: The University of Texas
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Memory and event-related potentials for rapidly presented emotional pictures
    Francesco Versace
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Exp Brain Res 205:223-33. 2010
  2. ncbi Do brain responses to emotional images and cigarette cues differ? An fMRI study in smokers
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, PO Box 30149, Houston, TX 77230, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 34:2054-63. 2011
  3. ncbi The temporal stability of the effects induced by the cued reaction time task
    Francesco Versace
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    Assessment 15:145-52. 2008
  4. ncbi Cigarette cues capture smokers' attention: evidence from event-related potentials
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Psychophysiology 47:435-41. 2010
  5. ncbi Brain reactivity to emotional, neutral and cigarette-related stimuli in smokers
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science, Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, P O Box 301439, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Addict Biol 16:296-307. 2011
  6. ncbi Affective picture perception: emotion, context, and the late positive potential
    M Carmen Pastor
    NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Brain Res 1189:145-51. 2008
  7. ncbi Emotional imagery: assessing pleasure and arousal in the brain's reward circuitry
    Vincent D Costa
    NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 31:1446-57. 2010
  8. ncbi A multimodal approach to assessing the impact of nicotine dependence, nicotine abstinence, and craving on negative affect in smokers
    Jason D Robinson
    Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 19:40-52. 2011
  9. ncbi Affective reactivity during smoking cessation of never-quitters as compared with that of abstainers, relapsers, and continuing smokers
    Cho Y Lam
    Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230 1439, USA
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 20:139-50. 2012
  10. ncbi Neural substrates of smoking cue reactivity: a meta-analysis of fMRI studies
    Jeffrey M Engelmann
    Department of Behavioral Science Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, P O Box 301439, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neuroimage 60:252-62. 2012

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi Memory and event-related potentials for rapidly presented emotional pictures
    Francesco Versace
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Exp Brain Res 205:223-33. 2010
    ..The data are consistent with the hypothesis that features of affective pictures pop out during rapid serial visual presentation, prompting better memory performance...
  2. ncbi Do brain responses to emotional images and cigarette cues differ? An fMRI study in smokers
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, PO Box 30149, Houston, TX 77230, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 34:2054-63. 2011
    ....
  3. ncbi The temporal stability of the effects induced by the cued reaction time task
    Francesco Versace
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    Assessment 15:145-52. 2008
    ..To maximize the reliability of the data collected using the CRTT, the validity effect seems to be a better probe of spatial orienting of attention...
  4. ncbi Cigarette cues capture smokers' attention: evidence from event-related potentials
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Psychophysiology 47:435-41. 2010
    ..The depletion of attentional resources in the presence of cigarette-related cues may contribute to the high relapse rate observed during attempts to quit smoking...
  5. ncbi Brain reactivity to emotional, neutral and cigarette-related stimuli in smokers
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Behavioral Science, Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, P O Box 301439, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Addict Biol 16:296-307. 2011
    ....
  6. ncbi Affective picture perception: emotion, context, and the late positive potential
    M Carmen Pastor
    NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Brain Res 1189:145-51. 2008
    ..Taken together, the data indicate that emotional pictures prompt increased attention and orienting that is unaffected by its context of presentation, whereas neutral pictures are more vulnerable to context manipulations...
  7. ncbi Emotional imagery: assessing pleasure and arousal in the brain's reward circuitry
    Vincent D Costa
    NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 31:1446-57. 2010
    ..These findings provide strong evidence that pleasurable text-driven imagery engages a core appetitive circuit, including NAc, mPFC, and the amygdala...
  8. ncbi A multimodal approach to assessing the impact of nicotine dependence, nicotine abstinence, and craving on negative affect in smokers
    Jason D Robinson
    Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 19:40-52. 2011
    ..Craving was associated with negative affect across measurement modalities. These results highlight the benefits of using multimodal measures to study the impact of nicotine dependence and withdrawal on negative affect and craving...
  9. ncbi Affective reactivity during smoking cessation of never-quitters as compared with that of abstainers, relapsers, and continuing smokers
    Cho Y Lam
    Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230 1439, USA
    Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 20:139-50. 2012
    ....
  10. ncbi Neural substrates of smoking cue reactivity: a meta-analysis of fMRI studies
    Jeffrey M Engelmann
    Department of Behavioral Science Unit 1330, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, P O Box 301439, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Neuroimage 60:252-62. 2012
    ..The results of this meta-analysis suggest that the extended visual system should receive more attention in future studies of smoking cue reactivity...
  11. ncbi Threat of suffocation and defensive reflex activation
    Peter J Lang
    Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
    Psychophysiology 48:393-6. 2011
    ..These data indicate that anticipating respiratory resistance activates defensive responding, which may mediate symptomatology in patients with panic and other anxiety disorders...
  12. ncbi Pleasure rather than salience activates human nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex
    Dean Sabatinelli
    National Institute of Mental Health Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
    J Neurophysiol 98:1374-9. 2007
    ..These data suggest that in visual perception, the human NAc and mPFC are specifically reactive to pleasant, rewarding stimuli and are not engaged by unpleasant stimuli, despite high stimulus salience...
  13. ncbi Effects of sleep reduction on spatial attention
    Francesco Versace
    Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Via S Anastasio 12, 34134 Trieste, Italy
    Biol Psychol 71:248-55. 2006
    ..This result suggests that the mechanisms underlying orienting of attention are differentially affected by the reduction of alertness level...