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Pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials and functional brain magnetic resonance in the evaluation of neurologic recovery after cardiac arrest: a case study of three patientsPaolo Zanatta
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Neurophysiology, Treviso Regional Hospital, Piazzale Ospedale 1, Treviso, Italy
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 20:22. 2012..Thus, pain-related somatosensory-evoked potentials may be a reliable and a cost-effective tool for planning the early diagnostic evaluation of comatose patients...
Biofeedback-assisted cardiovascular control in hypertensives exposed to emotional stress: a pilot studyDaniela Palomba
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 36:185-92. 2011..HR-BF appears to be a suitable intervention for hypertensive patients, mostly when BP increase is associated with emotional activation...
Emotional sensitization highlights the attentional bias in blood-injection-injury phobics: an ERP studyMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Neurosci Lett 490:11-5. 2011....
Neurofeedback training for tourette syndrome: an uncontrolled single case studySimone Messerotti Benvenuti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 36:281-8. 2011..Future studies should clarify the feasibility of NFB protocols for patients with TS beyond SMR uptraining alone...
Stimulus-Preceding Negativity and heart rate changes in anticipation of affective picturesSilvia Poli
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, Padova, Italy
Int J Psychophysiol 65:32-9. 2007..Results suggest a coherent response pattern in both cortical and peripheral measures during affective anticipation...
Emotional anticipation rather than processing is altered in patients with vasovagal syncopeGiulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 123:1319-27. 2012..To investigate whether the electrocortical activity underlying the anticipation and processing of emotional stimuli is enhanced in individuals with recurrent episodes of vasovagal syncope (VVS)...
BP reactivity to public speaking in stage 1 hypertension: influence of different task scenariosPaolo Palatini
Clinica Medica 4, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Blood Press 20:290-5. 2011..They performed three speech tasks with neutral, anger and anxiety scenarios. BP was assessed with the Finometer beat-to-beat non-invasive recording system throughout the test procedure...
Temporal dynamics of cognitive-emotional interplay in moral decision-makingMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 24:1018-29. 2012..In addition, facilitation of action selection and implementation was found for incidental dilemmas during the second stage of decision-making, as supported by the larger amplitudes of both components of the Bereitschaftspotential...
Event-related potentials to emotional stimuli in migrainous childrenGiulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
J Child Neurol 26:1508-15. 2011..The smaller cortical negativity in response to emotional stimuli suggests reduced attentional engagement toward emotionally relevant stimuli, or might be interpreted in terms of advanced brain maturation in migraine children...
Cardiovascular dynamics in blood phobia: evidence for a key role of sympathetic activity in vulnerability to syncopeMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Psychophysiology 45:1038-45. 2008..An impaired vasomotor response under sympathetic control might be the key mechanism underlying the phobic dysfunctional response...
Blood pressure changes highlight gender differences in emotional reactivity to arousing picturesMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Biol Psychol 70:188-96. 2005..These findings extend prior research on gender differences in autonomic responding to emotional visual stimuli and suggest that BP changes might reflect sexual peripheral arousal more than other autonomic measures...
Cortical and autonomic responses to noxious stimulation during anesthesia in cardiac surgery patients are moderated by preanesthetic blood pressure levelsSimone Messerotti Benvenuti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Psychophysiology 49:697-703. 2012..The current findings extend the hypertensive hypoalgesia phenomenon to the operating theatre...
Lack of startle blink potentiation to mutilation pictures irrespective of fearfulnessMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia 8 35131 Padova, Italy
Biol Psychol 85:338-43. 2010..Crucially, such effect occurred independently of fear levels, as no difference between phobics and controls was found in the size of the startle blinks elicited throughout the viewing of blood pictures...
Assessment of cognitive functions in individuals with post-traumatic symptoms after work-related accidentsGiulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
J Anxiety Disord 25:64-70. 2011....
Electromagnetic indication of hypervigilant responses to emotional stimuli in blood-injection-injury fearGiulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Neurosci Lett 424:100-5. 2007....
Event-related potentials and visual avoidance in blood phobics: is there any attentional bias?Giulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Depress Anxiety 23:304-11. 2006..ERP results are in line with the limited behavioral data in the literature in demonstrating that blood phobics do not show an attentional bias toward threat-relevant stimuli...
Preoperative cerebral hypoperfusion in the left, not in the right, hemisphere is associated with cognitive decline after cardiac surgerySimone Messerotti Benvenuti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 35131 Padua, Italy
Psychosom Med 74:73-80. 2012..The main aims of this study were to investigate whether preoperative cerebral hypoperfusion was associated with early POCD and whether lateralized hypoperfusion would differentially affect POCD in patients after cardiac surgery...
Regular physical activity attenuates the blood pressure response to public speaking and delays the development of hypertensionPaolo Palatini
Clinica Medica 4, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
J Hypertens 28:1186-93. 2010..The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of regular physical activity on the haemodynamic response to public speaking and to evaluate the long-term effect of exercise on development of hypertension...
Cortical brain responses to semantic incongruity and syntactic violation in Italian language: an event-related potential studyAlessandro Angrilli
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Neurosci Lett 322:5-8. 2002..Results point to a cross-linguistic consistency of the semantic and syntactic ERP components associated with the detection of linguistic anomalies...
The white-coat effect is unrelated to the difference between clinic and daytime blood pressure and is associated with greater reactivity to public speakingPaolo Palatini
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
J Hypertens 21:545-53. 2003..To compare the blood pressure (BP) response to doctor's visit with the BP reaction to a psycho-social challenge and with the difference between clinic and daytime BP (DeltaC-D)...
Posttraumatic and depressive symptoms in victims of occupational accidentsGiulia Buodo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Depress Res Treat 2012:184572. 2012..Early interventions should be focused not only on the prevention or reduction of posttraumatic and depressive symptoms but also on restructuring specific maladaptive trauma-related cognitions...
Emotional information processing in patients with narcolepsy: a psychophysiologic investigationValter Tucci
Department of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Sleep 26:558-64. 2003..The drawback exhibited by these patients suggests reduced reactivity of the aversive motivational system responsible for negative or unpleasant emotions...
Biofeedback assisted control of respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a biobehavioral intervention for depressive symptoms in patients after cardiac surgery: a preliminary studyElisabetta Patron
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 38:1-9. 2013..Overall, the current study also suggests that this biobehavioral intervention may add to the efficacy of postoperative risk reduction programs and rehabilitation protocols in cardiac surgery patients...
Biomedical and psychological risk in cardiac surgery: is EuroSCORE a more comprehensive risk measure than Stroke Index?Simone Messerotti Benvenuti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 39:e102-6. 2011..The main aim of the present study was to compare the preoperative associations between the Stroke Index or the EuroSCORE with anxiety, depression, memory, attention, and executive functions scores in patients undergoing cardiac surgery...
Changes in EEG alpha power to different disgust elicitors: the specificity of mutilationsMichela Sarlo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Neurosci Lett 382:291-6. 2005..Independent of location, the highest cortical activation was found during the viewing of the surgery scene. Moreover, the above activation was prominent over the right posterior regions...
Blood phobia and spider phobia: two specific phobias with different autonomic cardiac modulationsMichela Sarlo
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Biol Psychol 60:91-108. 2002..Greater vagal tone at rest was present in blood phobics compared with spider phobics...
