Ruolo dell’adattamento prismatico e delle differenze di genere nella modulazione dell’attenzione in giovani adulti

L'Adattamento Prismatico (AP) è una tecnica di riabilitazione sensomotoria per la modulazione del network attenzionale dorsale in pazienti con deficit visuospaziali. Tuttavia, la sua capacità di potenziare l'elaborazione attenzionale di ordine superiore in sistemi sani, insieme al potenziale ruolo moderatore del sesso biologico, rimane poco chiara. Questo studio mirava a determinare se l'AP possa migliorare l'efficienza dei network attenzionali di alto livello (Allerta, Orientamento e Control...

Thermal Homeostatic Efficiency and Body Ownership Disturbances: Evidence from a Cold Exposure Test

Body ownership refers to the feeling that one’s body and body parts belong to oneself. Previous studies in healthy and clinical populations have shown that alterations in body ownership are accompanied by changes in skin temperature, suggesting a relationship between these processes. However, it remains unclear whether temperature changes are merely physiological consequences of body ownership recalibration or whether thermosensory and homeostatic signals actively contribute to maintaining bo...

Theory of Mind, Hostile Attribution Bias, and Dark Personality Traits in a Sample of Romanian Incarcerated Offenders

Understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying offending behavior is central to forensic assessment and intervention. The present study examined the interplay between theory of mind, hostile attribution bias, and dark personality in incarcerated offenders across offense types, compared to community controls, and explored whether these three constructs represent independent mechanisms or a unified system. A sample of 171 male participants was divided into four groups (violent, homicide,...

“Open Notes nei contesti sanitari generali: una scoping review delle esperienze degli stakeholder, delle sfide di implementazione e delle implicazioni per la pratica clinica”

Open notes – ovvero l’accesso elettronico dei pazienti, tramite portale, alla documentazione narrativa prodotta dai clinici all’interno delle cartelle cliniche elettroniche (EHR) – è passato dall’essere una pratica sperimentale a diventare una componente sempre più consolidata delle politiche sanitarie contemporanee, come dimostrano il 21st Century Cures Act negli Stati Uniti e iniziative nazionali comparabili in Europa. Trasformando la nota clinica da artefatto professionale a mezzo condivis...

ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SELF-RATED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SENSITIVITY, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, DREAMING AND SLEEP QUALITY: POTENTIAL MODULATING ROLE OF CACNA1C GENE VARIANT RS7304986

Sleep difficulties and indicators of depression have been linked to electromagnetic field (EMF) sensitivity; yet, the psychological and genetic basis of this connection is still unclear. The present research investigated how the CACNA1C rs7304986 polymorphism, EMF exposure, and subjective EMF sensitivity may relate to reported symptoms of depression, nocturnal thoughts, nightmare frequency, and subjective sleep quality. Individuals (N=770) completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), ...

"When I End and You Begin": Exploring the relevance of Graphesthesia in Interoception Assessment Through Caloric Vestibular Stimulation.

The Association Between Religious Adherence and Bodily Self-Awareness Malleability : Evidence from Mirror-box illusion study 

Religious and cultural frameworks fundamentally shape human experience and influence self-perception and worldview. The bodily self emerges from the integration of bottom-up sensory signals with top-down expectations about the body, and it has been proposed that cultural and religious frameworks modulate this multisensory integration. Despite these theoretical proposals, no experimental study in cognitive neuroscience has directly examined whether religious adherence modulates the multis...

Perceived Empathy in Chatbot Interactions for Chronic Disease Management: A Scoping Review

Chronic disease management places sustained emotional and practical demands on patients, and healthcare systems are increasingly turning to chatbot-based interventions to extend support beyond the traditional clinical encounters. Yet the role of empathy in shaping patients’ lived experience of these tools has received uneven attention: the design of empathic features has advanced faster than our understanding of how patients perceive and respond to them. This scoping review was conducted to m...

Death-Education as Institutional Support for Deathcare Workers: A Delphi Study in Italy

Deathcare workers are exposed to death and bereavement, yet education for this workforce remains limited in Italy. We conducted a two-round anonymous online Delphi survey to prioritize components of a death education programme for Italian deathcare workers. Experts rated candidate aims, content, teaching strategies, delivery options, and evaluation outcomes on a seven-point scale using predefined consensus thresholds; free-text comments were summarized descriptively. Consensus-supported aims ...