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Subjective adjustement of individuals with psychiatric disorders in the aftermath of the L'Aquila earthquake
No full textValidità della diagnosi di disturbo schizofreniforme: studio di follow - up a 6 mesi. Rivista di Riabilitazione Psichiatrica e Psicosociale 2-3: 81-92; 1996.
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Neuroeconomic models: Applications in psychiatry
No full textNeuroeconomics is a discipline aimed at investigating the neural substrate of decision-making using, along an interdisciplinary way, research methods and information deriving from economics, cognitive and social psychology, and neuroscience. The combination of economic game theory and neuroscience has the potential to better describe the interactions of social, psychological and neural factors that may underlie mental illnesses. These concepts will allow a description of psychopathological disorders as deviation from optimal functioning. Neuroeconomic models can lead to identify quantitative phenotypes that will allow for further investigations in individuals with mental disorders. In this paper evidences from the interaction between neuroeconomics and psychiatry are reported, supporting the utility of economic concepts such as under ambiguity/risk and social decision making to psychiatric research, in order to improve diagnostic classification and therapy eventually
L'Aquila earthquake 10 years after: from individual trauma to that collective one. Memories and mnemotechnologies
No full textThe collective trauma resulting from a natural disaster represents a crisis of meaning. Several studies support the transgenerational transmission of traumatic experiences as well as protective models of resilience. On the tenth anniversary of the seismic event that hit the city of L'Aquila in 2009, a wide variety of cultural and scientific events could be analyzed in the context of mnemotechnologies. Within this framework, technological skills that release trauma-related emotions and ideas from the collective memories (i.e. mnemotechnologies) could substantially contribute to the active forgetting process required for the construction of a new cultural identity
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