Affective Neuroscience Lab
Mind-body technologies
Key words
Psychophysiology – Interoception – Embodied Cognition – Virtual Reality – Electroencephalography (EEG) – Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Skin Conductance Response (SCR) – Emotion and Cognition – Translational Psychology
Director
Collaborations
Gianni Brighetti Greta Riboli Giovanni Maria Ruggiero Mattia Nese
Research area and primary aims
Our research has as a theoretical reference the model “Connectome” and has as its aim the study of the integration between biological systems innervated by the autonomic nervous system and communication between these and the central nervous system. The research we are carrying out and that we have already designed, is aimed at the effects of enteroception on behaviors related to eating disorders, To the treatment of phobias through exposure through virtual reality, to the use of virtual reality for the evaluation of Snarc Effect in space, to the linguistic evaluation of the characteristics of emotions in relation to autonomic activation , the analysis of the brain-gut axis and its effects on anxiety and depression, the measurement of the flexibility of sexual behavior in conditions of behavioural discomfort, the measurement of the responses of heart variability and cutaneous conductance in Report to the shift attentives recorded through eye movements of virtual visual scenes. Finally to the statistical-mathematical analysis of the validity and reliability of psychometric tests and psychological scales of behavioral evaluation.
Running projects
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Research Cooperation Partners
- Klaus Scherer – Geneva Emotion Research Group. Group leader
- Alessandra Chiara Mansueto – Centre for Urban Mental Health, Departments of Communication Science and Psychology, University of Amsterdam
- Mark Van de Korput. New media developer
- Caroline Pukall – Psychology Department Queen’s University Kingston. Canada
- Armando Cotugno – Psychiatrist Cognitive behavioral psychotherapist
- Christiane Eichenberg – Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversitat Wien
- Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy), EIT Climate-Kic (Italy), Athena Research and Innovation Center (Greece), Cleantech (Bulgaria), Climate Media Factory (Germany), ENEA (Italy) and AESS (Italy)
- Prof.ssa Eliana Tossani Alma Mater Studiorum, Departments of Psychology, University of Bologna
Clinical Cooperation Partners
- Villa Garda Verona
- Centro Clinico De Sanctis (ROMA)
- GULLIVER Cooperativa Sociale Modena
- Centro di Terapia Metacognitiva Interpersonale, Roma
- IRCSS Maugeri, Milano – Montescano – Bari
Contacts
Rosita Borlimi
e-mail: r.borlimi@milano-sfu.it
phone: +39 02 83241854