The Alzheimer's patients interaction through digital and arts (AIDA) program: A feasibility study to improve wellbeing in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a growing global challenge, with an increasing prevalence and significant impact on individuals and public health. Effective pharmacological treatments directly impacting the disease are still lacking, highlighting the importance of programs and interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing of those affected. The present feasibility study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of the Alzheimer's patients Interaction through Digital and Arts (AIDA) program.

When the body fosters empathy: The interconnectivity between bodily reactivity, meditation, and embodied abstract concepts.

Empathy is a fundamental social ability that allows humans to infer others' emotions and intentions. Empathy is thought to be rooted in bodily sensations coming from the autonomic nervous system. In parallel, the functionality and perceptions coming from the autonomic nervous system could be improved by practicing activities that involve mind-body interactions, such as meditation.

The sands of time: Discontinuity in time production, or inadequacy of psychophysical fit?

In a recent study employing time production, a number of participants presented aberrant data, which normally would have marked them as being outliers. Given the ongoing discussion in the literature regarding the illusory nature of the flow of time, in this paper we consider whether their data may indicate discontinuity in time perception. We analyze the log-log plots for these outliers, investigating to what degree linearity is preserved for all the data points, as opposed to achieving a better fit using bisegmental regression.

Assessing brain neuroplasticity: Surface morphometric analysis of cortical changes induced by Quadrato motor training.

Morphological markers for brain plasticity are still lacking and their findings are challenged by the extreme variability of cortical brain surface. Trying to overcome the "correspondence problem," we applied a landmark-free method (the generalized procrustes surface analysis (GPSA)) for investigating the shape variation of cortical surface in a group of 40 healthy volunteers (i.e.