Publications by authors named "Francesca Bottinelli"
Background: Panic Disorder (PD) is characterized by unexpected and repeated moments of intense fear or anxiety, which manifest themselves through strong cognitive and behavioural symptoms. However, a clear picture of how impairments in recognition and processing of facial emotions affect the everyday life of PD patients has yet to be delineated. This review attempts to provide an overview of behavioural studies of emotion detection from facial stimuli in PD patients.
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- This study looked at how people's thinking skills (cognitive insight) relate to brain activity (cerebral metabolism) in patients with psychosis.
- Researchers tested 63 patients and divided them into two groups based on their insight scores, using special brain imaging techniques.
- They found that patients with low insight had less brain activity in some areas but more in another area compared to those with high insight, which might explain why they struggle with understanding their thoughts.