ISSN 1590-3478, 1590-1874
13 papers in the library · 9 citations · publishing 2012-2026
Neurological Sciences August 7, 2026
From male caduco to altered consciousness: two Medici recipes through the lens of modern consciousness science.
Neurological Sciences July 17, 2026 Paulo Bugalho
Contrary to common believe, some studies have reported the existence of observer dreams, in which the dreamer does not intervene. Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently report alterations in dream content, but nothing is known regarding this feature. Our objective was to assess the frequency of observer dreams in PD and correlation with clinical features. Dreams reports were collected...
Neurological Sciences August 1, 2025 D Duran, P Arpaia, G D'Errico et al. 2 citations
A systematic review of electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of Mindfulness- based treatment for chronic pain is presented. Recent technological advances have made EEG acquisition more accessible and also reliable. EEG monitoring before, during, and after treatment might support efficacy assessment and enable real- time adaptive intervention. The preliminary research extracted 131 papers...
Neurological Sciences April 30, 2025 Elisabetta Pupillo, Andrea Magnoni, Lorenzo Tinti et al.
Vegetative state (VS) is a severe disturbance of consciousness, often caused by cerebral insults, with limited long-term prognosis data. to provide a detailed picture of a cohort of patients treated at 2 long-term care facilities in Lombardy starting from 2014. Multicentric observational study. Subjects who met the diagnostic criteria for VS were admitted. A caregiver was identified for each...
Neurological Sciences February 2024 Gloria Castelletti, Francesco Misirocchi, Alessandro Zilioli et al.
The COVID-19 outbreak produced extensive psychological consequences, especially among vulnerable populations. Sleep was identified as one of the most common "indirect targets" of the pandemia, with up to 74.8% of patients surviving from COVID-19 complaining of new-onset sleep disorders. However, so far, the clinic-psychological impact of the outbreak in patients affected by pre-existing sleep...
Neurological Sciences June 1, 2023 Andrea E. Cavanna, Giulia Purpura, Anna Riva et al.
Stoic philosophy has multiple parallels with cognitive behavioural therapy interventions. In their ancient texts, the Roman Stoics present a set of theoretical principles and behavioural strategies that are directly relevant to the clinical care of patients with a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions. Mindfulness is a key component of the 'third wave' of modern psychotherapy that closely...
Neurological Sciences January 2023 Claudia Piervincenzi, Nikolaos Petsas, Alessandro Viganò et al.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a neurological disorder characterized by erroneous perception of the body schema or surrounding space. Migraine is the primary cause of AIWS in adults. The pathophysiology of AIWS is largely unknown, especially regarding functional abnormalities. In this study, we compared resting-state functional connectivity (FC) of migraine patients experiencing AIWS,...
Neurological Sciences September 2022 Licia Grazzi
Mindfulness and other behavioral approaches have demonstrated efficacy in treatment of different kinds of chronic pain condition and migraine in particular. Such treatments are of particular utility in the treatment of chronic forms of migraine, also associated to medication overuse headache, in reason of the relevant comorbidity - and bidirectional relationship - between migraine, and two of...
Neurological Sciences September 1, 2018 Sandro Nannini 7 citations
Using an analysis of a voluntary action caused by a visual perception, I suggest that the three fundamental characteristics of this perception (being conscious, self-conscious, and provided with a content) are neurologically implemented by three distinct higher order properties of brain dynamics. This hypothesis allows me to sketch out a physicalist naturalist solution to the mind-body problem....
Neurological Sciences March 6, 2018 ChunLei Wang, Yuan Pan, YanMei Liu et al.
Independent component analysis (ICA) is one of the most popular and valid methods to investigate the default mode network (DMN), an intrinsic network which attracts particular attention in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However, previous studies present inconsistent results regarding the topographical organization of the DMN in aMCI. Therefore, we conducted a quantitative,...
Neurological Sciences May 2017 Licia Grazzi, Domenico D'Amico, Alberto Raggi et al.
Chronic migraine (CM) is a disabling condition arising from a complex mixture of interconnected biological, psychological and social factors, and is often associated with medication overuse (MO). Mindfulness is emerging as a helpful treatment for pain, and one study showed that the longitudinal 12 months' course of CM-MO patients that attended mindfulness-based treatment alone was similar to...
Neurological Sciences January 15, 2015 R. Calabró, A. Cacciola, P. Bramanti et al.
Consciousness is a multifaceted concept with two major components: awareness of environment and of self (i.e., the content of consciousness) and wakefulness (i.e., the level of consciousness). Medically speaking, consciousness is the state of the patient's awareness of self and environment and his responsiveness to external stimulation and inner need. A basic understanding of consciousness and...
Neurological Sciences February 2012 Michele Terzaghi, Pietro Luca Ratti, Francesco Manni et al.
Sleep paralyses are viewed as pure motor phenomena featured by a dissociated state in which REM-related muscle atonia coexists with a wakefulness state of full consciousness. We present a 59-year-old man diagnosed with narcolepsy experiencing sleep paralysis, who failed to establish the boundaries between real experience and dream mentation during the paralysis: the patient's recall was indeed...