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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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IRIS project: Unexpected and violent death notification

This studyis  conducted by Prof Diego De Leo, President of the NGO De Leo Fund, and Prof Sabrina Cipolletta, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, with the collaboration of Msr Annalisa Guarino and Benedetta Maria Congregalli.What does violent and unexpected death mean? It is a

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Call for international students: admission to the 4 th year of the Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padova (deadline: March 7th 2021)

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Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?

Brainhack Global “in Padova” 2020Title: Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?When: December 14th to 16th, 2020Where: the internet, wherever it liesOrganizers: Patrizia Bisiacchi, Giorgia Cona, Davide Poggiali, Antonino VallesiInfo:

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