Children and families exposed to chronic sociopolitical adversity experience not only individual psychological consequences but also disruptions to the relational processes through which family life is organized and sustained. Although research has examined family relationships in contexts of war, political violence, forced displacement, persecution, and related adversity, evidence remains dispersed across populations, disciplines, and relational constructs. This mapping review aimed to chara...
L’esperienza del proprio corpo come appartenente a sé dipende dall’elaborazione di molteplici segnali sensoriali corporei. Tra questi, le informazioni termosensoriali sono state sempre più associate all’appartenenza corporea. Le evidenze relative a questa relazione hanno mostrato principalmente che i cambiamenti nell’appartenenza corporea possono essere accompagnati da variazioni della temperatura cutanea, considerando quindi i cambiamenti termici soprattutto come conseguenze fisiologiche del...
Il disturbo dipendente di personalità (DDP) è caratterizzato da un bisogno pervasivo di ricevere cure e dall'incapacità di agire autonomamente; tale disturbo viene diagnosticato più frequentemente nelle donne. Il presente lavoro ha adottato un approccio di analisi transnazionale, fondato sugli studi femministi e transnazionali, per individuare e analizzare contributi scientifici ricchi di spunti tematici. L'obiettivo dello studio è stato quello di chiarire, da una prospettiva critica, i presu...
Neuroscientific research on conceptual representation has traditionally focused on concrete categories, such as living things and tools, whereas abstract knowledge has only recently received systematic attention. Emerging evidence suggests that abstract concepts do not constitute a homogeneous category but instead encompass distinct domains, including social and affective concepts. According to embodied cognition accounts, the representation of both concrete and abstract concepts is grounded ...
Background: As cancer is increasingly experienced as a chronic condition, psycho-oncology has moved beyond distress reduction to include broader dimensions of patient well-being. Although happiness, hedonic well-being, and eudaimonic well-being are often used interchangeably, they refer to theoretically distinct constructs: hedonic well-being encompasses life satisfaction and positive affect, whereas eudaimonic well-being is characterized by meaning, purpose, autonomy, and personal growth. Th...
Antimicrobial resistance is understood as a behavioural and communication challenge, not only a microbiological or prescribing issue, and pharmacists are well-placed to help implement antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) principles into patient-facing action, but the extent to which pharmacist-led interventions have utilised behavioural theory, Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) and patient engagement is poorly understood. This scoping review aimed to examine the ways in which pharmacist-led AMS i...
Naming difficulties are the most commonly lamented deficit in epilepsy, with up to forty
percent of temporal lobe epilepsy patients reporting struggles with this aspect of cognitive
functioning. Nonetheless, naming is often assessed using long established tests that have been
suggested to underrepresent this deficiency, with many patients affected by lighter naming
deficits being classified as normal. The present study addressed this issue by introducing a
new Action Naming Test (Papagno et a...
Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is currently caught between clinical psychiatry’s deficit-based model and popular culture’s reductive "superpower" narrative. Grounded in autoethnographic experience and an interdisciplinary synthesis of neuroethics, philosophy of medicine, disability studies, and phenomenology, this thesis examines how pathologizing discourse impacts neurodivergent identity and agency. By critiquing medicalized deficit models through capability theory, ep...
Groove, commonly defined as the pleasurable desire to move in response to music, has been
consistently associated with an inverted U-shaped relationship between rhythmic complexity
and movement-related enjoyment, whereby moderate levels of complexity elicit the strongest
responses. While the inverted U-shape has been conceptualized as a universal musical
response, growing evidence suggests that individual cognitive and personality characteristics
may shape how rhythmic complexity is expe...
Il senso di appartenenza corporea viene generalmente studiato utilizzando arti artificiali o la mano riflessa del partecipante stesso. Questo studio ha invece esaminato se la mano riflessa di un’altra persona potesse acquisire un significato corporeo riferito al sé in una configurazione diadica di mirror box con un partner fisicamente presente. Sono state esaminate complessivamente 32 diadi. Dopo le esclusioni descritte nella Sezione 3.2, 28 diadi (N = 56) hanno contribuito alle principali an...
