Publications by authors named "B Perfetti"
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- People process feelings and emotions differently as they get older.
- The study looked at how younger and older adults reacted to pictures that made them feel positive, negative, or neutral.
- While both ages paid attention to positive things, older adults focused more on the positive when it was mixed with negative feelings, while younger adults noticed positive things all the time.
The concept of emotion is a complex neural and psychological phenomenon, central to the organization of human social behavior. As the result of subjective experience, emotions involve bottom-up cognitive styles responsible for efficient adaptation of human behavior to the environment based on salient goals. Indeed, bottom-up cognitive processes are mandatory for clarifying emotion-cognition interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Somatic Symptoms Disorder (SSD) has been shown to have a clinically very high prevalence in Parkinson's Disease (PD) with frequencies ranging from 7.0% to 66.7%, higher than in the general population (10%- 25%).
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- The Medio-Dorsal Nuclei (MDN) in the thalamus is linked to verbal memory, and new research on a 77-year-old woman shows that acute confabulations occurred after an infarct in the right MDN following a previous silent infarct in the left.
- MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) were used to analyze the patient's thalamic lesions and white matter alterations, revealing lower Fractional Anisotropy (FA) and higher Mean Diffusivity (MD) in damaged areas connected to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC).
- The study suggests that the bilateral MDN's projections to the ACC play a significant role in the development of confabulations, contributing to the
Background: Studying default mode network activity or connectivity in different parkinsonisms, with or without visual hallucinations, could highlight its roles in clinical phenotypes' expression. Multiple system atrophy is the archetype of parkinsonism without visual hallucinations, variably appearing instead in Parkinson's disease (PD). We aimed to evaluate default mode network functions in multiple system atrophy in comparison with PD.
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