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Alessandra Gorini

Alessandra Gorini

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Overview

Alessandra Gorini is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and has a research focus in the field of medicine, with a significant number of publications centered on cardiology and clinical psychology. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Genetics, and Applied Psychology.

Their publication record includes a variety of topics mainly related to cardiac health and mental health, COVID-19's impact on mental health, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, persona design and applications, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

Some recent publications by Alessandra Gorini include:

  • "Mental health and risk perception among Italian healthcare workers during the second month of the Covid-19 pandemic" (2020), published in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

While this publication is directly attributed to Alessandra Gorini, other notable papers in related areas include:

  • "Stereotactic radioablation for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia: preliminary data and insights from the STRA-MI-VT phase Ib/II study" (2021), Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • "Psychological and work-related factors associated with emotional exhaustion among healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italian hospitals" (2021), Nursing and Health Sciences
  • "Who Is Willing to Get Vaccinated? A Study into the Psychological, Socio-Demographic, and Cultural Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions" (2021), Vaccines
  • "Brief report - "Every little thing gonna be all right" (at least for me): Dispositional optimists display higher optimistic bias for infection during the Italian COVID-19 outbreak" (2020), Personality and Individual Differences

Alessandra Gorini frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Mattia Giuliani
  • Fabrizio Veglia
  • Elena Tremoli
  • Simone Barbieri
  • Alice Bonomi

Their research output has been published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Psychology and Health
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Best Publications

  • The role of immersion and narrative in mediated presence: the virtual hospital experience.

    Alessandra Gorini;Claret S. Capideville;Gianluca De Leo;Fabrizia Mantovani

  • A second life for eHealth: prospects for the use of 3-D virtual worlds in clinical psychology.

    Alessandra Gorini;Andrea Gaggioli;Cinzia Vigna;Giuseppe Riva

  • In vivo PET study of 5HT(2A) serotonin and D(2) dopamine dysfunction in drug-naive obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Daniela Perani;Valentina Garibotto;Alessandra Gorini;Rosa Maria Moresco

  • Assessment of the emotional responses produced by exposure to real food, virtual food and photographs of food in patients affected by eating disorders

    Alessandra Gorini;Eric Griez;Anna Petrova;Giuseppe Riva

  • Virtual reality in anxiety disorders: The past and the future

    Alessandra Gorini;Giuseppe Riva

  • Understanding Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Focus on Decision Making

    Paolo Cavedini;Alessandra Gorini;Alessandra Gorini;Laura Bellodi

  • Can Relaxation Training Reduce Emotional Eating in Women with Obesity? An Exploratory Study with 3 Months of Follow-Up

    Gian Mauro Manzoni;Francesco Pagnini;Alessandra Gorini;Alessandra Preziosa

  • Virtual reality in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorders.

    Alessandra Gorini;Federica Pallavicini;Davide Algeri;Claudia Repetto

  • Disorganization of anatomical connectivity in obsessive compulsive disorder: a multi-parameter diffusion tensor imaging study in a subpopulation of patients.

    V. Garibotto;P. Scifo;A. Gorini;Clarke R. Alonso

  • Decision-making functioning as a predictor of treatment outcome in anorexia nervosa.

    Paolo Cavedini;Claudia Zorzi;Tommaso Bassi;Alessandra Gorini

  • Modulation of risky choices in recently abstinent dependent cocaine users: a transcranial direct-current stimulation study.

    Alessandra Gorini;Alessandra Gorini;Claudio Lucchiari;Claudio Lucchiari;William Russell-Edu;Gabriella Pravettoni;Gabriella Pravettoni

  • Mental health and risk perception among Italian healthcare workers during the second month of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Alessandra Gorini;Alessandra Gorini;Elena Fiabane;Marinella Sommaruga;Simone Barbieri

  • The potential of Virtual Reality as anxiety management tool: a randomized controlled study in a sample of patients affected by Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Alessandra Gorini;Giuseppe Riva

  • Interreality in Practice: Bridging Virtual and Real Worlds in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

    Giuseppe Riva;Simona Raspelli;Davide Algeri;Federica Pallavicini

  • The Effect of Social Content on Deductive Reasoning: An fMRI Study

    Nicola Canessa;Alessandra Gorini;Stefano F. Cappa;Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

  • Biofeedback, virtual reality and mobile phones in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (gad): A phase-2 controlled clinical trial

    Federica Pallavicini;Davide Algeri;Claudia Repetto;Alessandra Gorini

  • A P5 cancer medicine approach: why personalized medicine cannot ignore psychology.

    Gabriella Pravettoni;Alessandra Gorini

  • A new perspective on blame culture: an experimental study

    Alessandra Gorini;Massimo Miglioretti;Gabriella Pravettoni

  • Virtual worlds, real healing.

    Alessandra Gorini;Andrea Gaggioli;Giuseppe Riva

  • The use of Biofeedback in Clinical Virtual Reality: The INTREPID Project

    Claudia Repetto;Alessandra Gorini;Cinzia Vigna;Davide Algeri

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Riva
Giuseppe Riva Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Andrea Gaggioli
Andrea Gaggioli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Stefano Triberti
Stefano Triberti University of Milan
Gianluca Castelnuovo
Gianluca Castelnuovo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Francesco Pagnini
Francesco Pagnini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Gian Mauro Manzoni
Gian Mauro Manzoni Università degli Studi eCampus
Enrico Molinari
Enrico Molinari Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Mark Cropley
Mark Cropley University of Surrey
Silvia Giordani
Silvia Giordani Dublin City University

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