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Ottavia Dipasquale

5 papers in the library · 187 citations · publishing 2019-2025

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The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Ego Dissolution and Emotional Arousal During the Psychedelic State.

Human Brain Mapping April 1, 2025 Clayton R. Coleman, Kenneth Shinozuka, Robert Tromm et al. 4 citations

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a classic serotonergic psychedelic that induces a profoundly altered conscious state. In conjunction with psychological support, it is currently being explored as a treatment for generalized anxiety disorder and depression. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is a brain region that is known to be involved in mood regulation and disorders; hypofunction...

Metastability, fractal scaling, and synergistic information processing: What phase relationships reveal about intrinsic brain activity

Neuroimage July 1, 2022 Fran Hancock, Joana Cabral, Andrea I. Luppi et al. 40 citations

Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in resting-state fMRI holds promise to deliver candidate biomarkers for clinical applications. However, the reliability and interpretability of dFC metrics remain contested. Despite a myriad of methodologies and resulting measures, few studies have combined metrics derived from different conceptualizations of brain functioning within the same analysis -...

Differential contributions of serotonergic and dopaminergic functional connectivity to the phenomenology of LSD

Psychopharmacology March 24, 2022 Timothy Lawn, Ottavia Dipasquale, Alexandros Vamvakas et al. 48 citations

Abstract Rationale LSD is the prototypical psychedelic. Despite a clear central role of the 5HT 2a receptor in its mechanism of action, the contributions of additional receptors for which it shows affinity and agonist activity remain unclear. Objectives We employed receptor-enriched analysis of functional connectivity by targets (REACT) to explore differences in functional connectivity (FC)...

Dissociative identity as a continuum from healthy mind to psychiatric disorders: Epistemological and neurophenomenological implications approached through hypnosis.

Medical Hypotheses September 1, 2019 Enrico Facco, Laura Mendozzi, Angelo Bona et al. 16 citations

The topic of multiple personality, redefined as Dissociative Identity Disorders (DIDs) in the DSM-5, is an intriguing and still debated disorder with a long history and deep cultural and epistemological implications, extending up to the idea of possession. Hypnosis is an appealing and valuable model to manipulate subjective experience and get an insight on both the physiology and the...

Receptor-Enriched Analysis of functional connectivity by targets (REACT): A novel, multimodal analytical approach informed by PET to study the pharmacodynamic response of the brain under MDMA

Neuroimage April 4, 2019 Ottavia Dipasquale, Pierluigi Selvaggi, Mattia Veronese et al. 79 citations

One of the main limitations of pharmacological fMRI is its inability to provide a molecular insight into the main effect of compounds, leaving an open question about the relationship between drug effects and haemodynamic response. The aim of this study is to investigate the acute effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) on functional connectivity (FC) using a novel multimodal method...