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Open AccessThe role of insomnia in the vulnerability to depressive and anxiety symptoms in atopic dermatitis adult patients
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory chronic skin disease typically associated with atopic comorbidities and other non-atopic conditions such as sleep disturbances, and mood/anxiety disorders. A gro...
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Open AccessBehavioral and psychological factors in individuals with migraine without psychiatric comorbidities
It is well known that the course of migraine is influenced by comorbidities and that individual psychological characteristics may impact on the disease. Proper identification of psychological factors that are ...
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Open AccessDemographic, psychological, chronobiological, and work-related predictors of sleep disturbances during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
The first COVID-19 contagion wave caused unprecedented restraining measures worldwide. In Italy, a period of generalized lockdown involving home confinement of the entire population was imposed for almost two ...
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The Role of Sleep in Emotional Processing
In this chapter, we have reviewed an extensive literature supporting the critical role of sleep for several aspects of emotional processing and regulation.
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The effect of sleep deprivation on retrieval of emotional memory: a behavioural study using film stimuli
Although the deleterious effects of sleep deprivation on memory consolidation are well documented, it is still unclear how the facilitating effect of emotions on memory consolidation processes could be modulat...
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Altered Cortico-Limbic Functional Connectivity During an Empathy Task in Subjects with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Empathy is a multidimensional construct consisting of cognitive (inferring mental states) and emotional (empathic concern) components. Emotional empathy is severely impaired in individuals affected by Post-Tra...
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Regional cerebral changes and functional connectivity during the observation of negative emotional stimuli in subjects with post-traumatic stress disorder
Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exhibit exaggerated brain responses to emotionally negative stimuli. Identifying the neural correlates of emotion regulation in these subjects is important f...
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Validity of the Italian Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
The aim of this study is to validate the Italian version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), comparing five different groups of individuals (healthy young and elderly, sleep apnoea syndrome patients,...
