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    Far Transfer Effects of Trainings on Executive Functions in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis

    Executive Functions are a set of interrelated, top-down processes essential for adaptive goal-directed behaviour, frequently impaired across different neurodevelopmental disorders with variable degrees of seve...

    Clara Bombonato, Benedetta Del Lucchese, Costanza Ruffini in Neuropsychology Review (2024)

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    The Hippocampus, Neurotrophic Factors and Depression

    Depression is a prevalent, highly debilitating mental disorder affecting up to 15% of the population at least once in their lifetime, with huge costs for society. Neurobiological mechanisms of depression are s...

    Dr Gabriele Masi, Paola Brovedani in CNS Drugs (2011)

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    Emotional, Behavioral and Social Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy

    About 10% of children older than 5 years in the community can present with a mental disorder (Meltzer et al. 2000). It is well established over the past thirty years that childhood chronic disorders, such as diab...

    Gabriele Masi, Paola Brovedani in The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy (2010)

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    Neuropsychological Evaluation

    The study of cognitive and neuropsychological functions in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is relevant both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. From the theoretical standpoint, an analytical do...

    Daniela Brizzolara, Paola Brovedani in The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy (2010)

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    Valutazione cognitiva e neuropsicologica

    Daniela Brizzolara, Paola Brovedani in Le forme spastiche della paralisi cerebral… (2005)

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    Temperament in Adolescents with Anxiety and Depressive Disorders and in Their Families

    Aim of this study was to investigate whether specific temperamental features were associated with anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents, in their siblings and in their parents. Thirty adolescents wit...

    Gabriele Masi, Maria Mucci, Letizia Favilla in Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2003)

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    Assessment of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents with Mental Retardation

    This report examines the concurrent validity of different informant and self-report assessment instruments of psychopathology, both general and specific for anxiety and/or depression, in referred mentally reta...

    Gabriele Masi, Paola Brovedani, Maria Mucci in Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2002)

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    Neuropsychological Outcome Following Prolonged Febrile Seizures Associated with Hippocampal Sclerosis and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Children

    The evidence presented in this chapter demonstrates that hippocampal sclerosis is a substrate for TLE also in children.

    Daniela Brizzolara, Paola Brovedani in Neuropsychology of Childhood Epilepsy (2001)

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    Psychopathological Aspects of Cryptorchidism in Children and Adolescents

    In the male sexual and aggressive drives are mostly centered on the penis, whose real or fantasied features strongly affect the way children and adolescents build up their own personal and gender identity. In ...

    Gabriele Masi, Stefania Millepiedi in Child Psychiatry and Human Development (1999)

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    School Failure in Early Adolescence: The Psychopathological Risk

    School difficulties and learning disorders in adolescence can become significant risk factors for psychopathology. This study investigates emotional and cognitive patterns in adolescents with school difficulti...

    Gabriele Masi, Paola Brovedani, Paola Poli in Child Psychiatry and Human Development (1998)