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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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End-of-life care after the legal introduction of advance directives (AD) in Italy

Advance care planning and advance directives (AD) play a key role in the care of life-threatening illnesses such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Professor Cipolletta from the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy) has conducted a study to explore how the introduction

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