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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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Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disturbances During the Lockdown Periods
Since December 2019, the spread of acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus has posed unprecedented challenges to the international healthcare systems. The uncontrollable increase in c...
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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 AccessThe fall of vulnerability to sleep disturbances in evening chronotypes when working from home and its implications for depression
Eveningness is distinctively associated with sleep disturbances and depression symptoms due to the misalignment between biological and social clocks. The widespread imposition of remote working due to the COVI...
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Open AccessWhich is the best transcranial direct current stimulation protocol for migraine prevention? A systematic review and critical appraisal of randomized controlled trials
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could counteract the pathophysiological triggers of migraine attacks by modulating cortical excitability. Several pilot randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assess...
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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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Ghrelin knockout mice display defective skeletal muscle regeneration and impaired satellite cell self-renewal
Muscle regeneration depends on satellite cells (SCs), quiescent precursors that, in consequence of injury or pathological states such as muscular dystrophies, activate, proliferate, and differentiate to repair...
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Open AccessBilateral 5 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation on fronto-temporal areas modulates resting-state EEG
Rhythmic non-invasive brain stimulations are promising tools to modulate brain activity by entraining neural oscillations in specific cortical networks. The aim of the study was to assess the possibility to in...
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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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Predicting Dream Recall: EEG Activation During NREM Sleep or Shared Mechanisms with Wakefulness?
The common knowledge of a uniqueness of REM sleep as a privileged scenario of dreaming still persists, although consolidated empirical evidence shows that the assumption that dreaming is just an epiphenomenon of ...
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Open AccessThe Fall of Sleep K-Complex in Alzheimer Disease
Although a slowing of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity during wakefulness and –to some extent- sleep of Alzheimer disease (AD) patients (i.e., increased slow-frequency activity) was documented, recent findi...
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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,...
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Can an inert slee** pill affect sleep? Effects on polysomnographic, behavioral and subjective measures
Since two recent meta-analyses on sleep changes associated with placebo in clinical trials suggested a beneficial effect of placebo treatments, pointing to a dissociation between subjective and objective measu...
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Muscle twitch activity during REM sleep: Effect of sleep deprivation and relation with rapid eye movement activity
The present study assessed the effect of total sleep deprivation on muscle twitch (MT) frequency during the recovery night, as well as the intranight distribution of MTs and their correlation with rapid eye mo...
