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Emotional processing prospectively modulates the impact of anxiety on COVID-19 pandemic-related post-traumatic stress symptoms: an ERP study

Carola Dell’Acqua, Tania Moretta, Elisa Dal Bò, Simone Messerotti Benvenuti & Daniela Palomba Psychophysiology Lab, Department of General PsychologyThe negative impact of Covid-19 pandemic on mental health has been widely described. Particularly, the elevated distress provoked by the pandemic

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Grounding Adaptive Cognitive Control in the Intrinsic, Functional Brain Organization: An HD-EEG Resting State Investigation

Study published by Gian Marco Duma, Mariagrazia Di Bono and Giovanni Mento in the journal "Brain Sciences".  Is it possible to predict how a person will adapt his motor behavior and neural activity in a cognitive task simply by recording his EEG activity at rest?In short, it's a bit like figuring

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Effectiveness of Therapeutic Gardens for People with Dementia: A Systematic Review

Dementia is a major cause of disability in older adults, with a tremendous negative impact on the quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia (PWD). Non-pharmacological treatments have proved helpful in counteracting dementia-related symptoms and promoting QoL in PWD, such as gardening therapy and

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SARS-CoV-2 can affect the brain and cause neuropsychological disorders

SARS-CoV-2 resulting in COVID-19 can affect the brain and cause neuropsychological disorders (e.g., executive dysfunction and memory difficulties). Recently the presence of more focal and isolated neuropsychological signs has been also reported, in the domain of language disorders (e.g., alexia

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Structural and functional brain asymmetries in the early phases of life: a scoping review

Asymmetry characterizes the brain in both structure and function. Anatomical asymmetries explain only a fraction of functional variability in lateralization, with structural and functional asymmetries developing at different periods of life and in different ways. In this work, we perform a scoping

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