Publications by authors named "Valentina Fanti"
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- The Life-ON study aimed to assess sleep quality and disorders among pregnant women and postpartum over time, involving 439 participants from local gynecological departments.
- Results showed that sleep quality worsened throughout pregnancy, with 34% experiencing poor sleep in the first trimester, rising to 71% in the first month postpartum; insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness trends were also noted.
- The study highlights the high prevalence of sleep disorders during pregnancy and postpartum, stressing the need for routine assessments to enhance early detection and management.
Social interactions are often shaped by the space we prefer to maintain between us and others, that is, interpersonal distance. Being too distant or too close to a stranger can often be perceived as odd, and lead to atypical social interactions. This calibration of appropriate interpersonal distance thus constitutes an important social skill.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Certain bacteria can produce gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) from glutamate in the human intestinal tract, leading to the possibility of altering GABA levels through diet. To this end, we assessed the ability of seven commercially available probiotic supplements to produce GABA.
Method And Results: Probiotic strains were compared for GABA production in pure culture.
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- Perinatal depression (PND) is a serious issue during pregnancy, and this study investigates whether a woman's chronotype (her natural sleep-wake cycle) could predict PND symptoms.
- Researchers followed 299 women from early pregnancy to six months postpartum, assessing their chronotype and mood over time using various depression rating scales.
- Results showed that evening chronotypes faced a higher risk of PND symptoms shortly after giving birth, coupled with less healthy lifestyles and more complications during pregnancy, indicating the need to evaluate chronotype in pregnant women to identify those at risk for PND.
Aim: We aimed to characterize youth hospitalization trends in a psychiatric inpatient unit from a large, public university hospital with a broad catchment area in Milan, Italy.
Methods: Hospitalization data of patients with an age at admission ≤ 35 were retrospectively retrieved over a time span of 15 years. The sample was comprised of 1982 admissions to a psychiatric ward, aggregated into ICD-10 diagnostic clusters and then analysed.
Although central to any exhaustive theory of human subjectivity, the relationship between dream and waking consciousness remains uncertain. Some findings suggest that dream consciousness can be influenced by severe disorders of thought content. The suppression of unwanted thoughts has been shown to influence dream content in healthy individuals.
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