People
| Faculty |
| Alessandro Angrilli, PhD |
Full Professor, Psychobiology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
His main research interest lies in the psychobiology of psychoses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression); cortical plasticity in neurological and psychiatric disorders, including the study of psychostimulants and cognitive enhancers in different populations (young adults, adults, normal and pathological elders).
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| Giulia Buodo, PhD |
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology , Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interests lie in the psychophysiological correlates of emotional processing in psychopathology; vulnerability factors in the development of anxiety and mood disorders; procedures of psychophysiological self-regulation (biofeedback, neurofeedback) and attentional-emotional regulation; emotional processing and risk factors in problematic internet use.
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| Simone Messerotti Benvenuti, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
His main research interest lies in psychophysiological correlates of emotional processing in individuals at high risk of mood disorders; psychophysiological mechanisms in the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease; biofeedback and neurofeedback in affective and neuro-cognitive disorders.
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| Daniela Palomba, MD |
Full Professor, Clinical Psychology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interests include psychophysiology of stress and emotional defense reactions, including the freezing or fainting response (e.g. vaso-vagal syncope, blood-phobia), anxiety and mood disorders; psychophysiological risk factors associated with cardiovascular disorders; psychophysiological self-regulation (e.g. HRV-Biofeedback and EEG-Neurofeedback) in mood, anxiety and stress disorders.
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| Michela Sarlo, PhD |
Associate Professor, Psychobiology , Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interest lies in the processing of threat stimuli in healthy individuals and in specific phobics: the attentional bias and its cortical, autonomic, and behavioral correlates; the relationship between cardiovascular/hemodynamic changes and cortical activity; neural and autonomic correlates of cognitive-emotional interaction in decision making.
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| Chiara Spironelli, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Psychobiology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interests include the study of the neural correlates of psychotic disorders, the mechanisms of cortical plasticity involved in brain damage recovery and the psychobiology of normal and pathological aging using mainly electrophysiological measures (qEEG, ERPs).
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| Luciano Stegagno, MD |
Professor Emeritus, Psychobiology
His main research interest include cardiovascular psychophysiology and psychophysiology of sleep.
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| Postdoc |
| Nicola Cellini, PhD |
Research Fellow, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
His main research interest lies in the relationship between nocturnal or diurnal sleep patterns and cognition, emotion and autonomic nervous system activity; the modulatory effects of metacognitive processes and personality on subjective and objective sleep quality in clinical and non-clinical populations across life span.
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| Elisabetta Patron, PhD |
Research Fellow, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interest lies in cognitive deficits, affective disorders and long-term adjustment and quality of life in patients with cardiovascular diseases; Biofeedback training for anxiety and mood symptoms in cardiovascular patients..
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| Ph.D. Students |
| Antonio Maffei, M.Sc. |
Ph.D. student in Psychological Sciences, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
His main research interest lies in the psychophysiology of emotions. Specifically, his PhD project is focused on the study of the psychophysiological reactions to emotion-eliciting film clips, using a wide range of techniques (EEG, HR, HRV, EMG, fMRI).
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| Luca Menghini, M.Sc. |
Ph.D. student in Psychological Sciences, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
His main research interest lies in ecological and situational techniques (i.e. experience sampling, wearable sensors) to assess the psychophysiological determinants of work stress. His work involves also the analysis of wearable technologies reliability and the efficacy of biofeedback training for stress management.
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| Tania Moretta, M.Sc. |
Ph.D. student in Psychological Sciences, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Her main research interests lie in the relationship between stress and motivational processes in behavioral addiction (e.g. Internet Addiction Disorder); the psychobiological mechanisms underlying inhibitory control, motivation, and emotional processing in problematic Internet users (i.e. social networking addiction).
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