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Claudio Imperatori

Claudio Imperatori

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Overview

Claudio Imperatori is affiliated with the European University of Rome in Italy and has a body of research principally centered around psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and sociology and political science.

The primary research topics addressed by Imperatori include functional brain connectivity studies, eating disorders and behaviors, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, neural and behavioral psychology studies, COVID-19 and mental health, and broader mental health research topics.

Imperatori has contributed to various peer-reviewed venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • PubMed
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Benedetto Farina, Giuseppe Alessio Carbone, Chiara Massullo, Eric Murillo-Rodrı́guez, and Sérgio Machado.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Global Storm of Stress-Related Psychopathological Symptoms: A Brief Overview on the Usefulness of Virtual Reality in Facing the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 (2020), published in Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
  • Stay home, stay safe, stay green: The role of gardening activities on mental health during the Covid-19 home confinement (2021), published in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • COVID-19 Related Distress Is Associated With Alcohol Problems, Social Media and Food Addiction Symptoms: Insights From the Italian Experience During the Lockdown (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Fitspiration on social media: Body-image and other psychopathological risks among young adults. A narrative review (2021), published in Emerging Trends in Drugs Addictions and Health
  • Child Maltreatment, Abuse, and Neglect: An Umbrella Review of Their Prevalence and Definitions (2023), published in PubMed

Best Publications

  • Stay home, stay safe, stay green: The role of gardening activities on mental health during the Covid-19 home confinement

    Annalisa Theodorou;Angelo Panno;Giuseppe Carrus;Giuseppe Alessio Carbone

  • Aberrant EEG functional connectivity and EEG power spectra in resting state post-traumatic stress disorder: a sLORETA study.

    Claudio Imperatori;Benedetto Farina;Maria Isabella Quintiliani;Antonio Onofri

  • The Role of Attachment Trauma and Disintegrative Pathogenic Processes in the Traumatic-Dissociative Dimension.

    Benedetto Farina;Marianna Liotti;Claudio Imperatori

  • Default mode network alterations in individuals with high-trait-anxiety: An EEG functional connectivity study

    Claudio Imperatori;Benedetto Farina;Mauro Adenzato;Enrico Maria Valenti

  • Childhood trauma in obese and overweight women with food addiction and clinical-level of binge eating

    Claudio Imperatori;Marco Innamorati;Dorian A. Lamis;Benedetto Farina

  • The association among food addiction, binge eating severity and psychopathology in obese and overweight patients attending low-energy-diet therapy.

    Claudio Imperatori;Marco Innamorati;Anna Contardi;Massimo Continisio

  • COVID-19 Related Distress Is Associated With Alcohol Problems, Social Media and Food Addiction Symptoms: Insights From the Italian Experience During the Lockdown

    Angelo Panno;Giuseppe Alessio Carbone;Chiara Massullo;Benedetto Farina

  • Modification of EEG functional connectivity and EEG power spectra in overweight and obese patients with food addiction: An eLORETA study.

    Claudio Imperatori;Mariantonietta Fabbricatore;Marco Innamorati;Benedetto Farina

  • Fitspiration on social media: Body-Image and other psychopathological risks among young adults. A narrative review.

    Ilaria Cataldo;Ilaria De Luca;Valentina Giorgetti;Valentina Giorgetti;Dorotea Cicconcelli;Dorotea Cicconcelli

  • Psychometric properties of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in overweight and obese patients.

    Marco Innamorati;Claudio Imperatori;Gian Mauro Manzoni;Dorian A. Lamis

  • Child Maltreatment, Abuse, and Neglect: An Umbrella Review of Their Prevalence and Definitions.

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  • Food Addiction: definition, measurement and prevalence in healthy subjects and in patients with eating disorders.

    Claudio Imperatori;Mariantonietta Fabbricatore;Viviana Vumbaca;Marco Innamorati

  • Global Storm of Stress-Related Psychopathological Symptoms: A Brief Overview on the Usefulness of Virtual Reality in Facing the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19.

    Claudio Imperatori;Antonios Dakanalis;Benedetto Farina;Federica Pallavicini

  • Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in People at Risk for Food Addiction

    Marco Innamorati;Claudio Imperatori;Désirée Harnic;Denise Erbuto

  • Psychometric properties of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0 in an Italian non-clinical sample

    Claudio Imperatori;Mariantonietta Fabbricatore;David Lester;Gian Mauro Manzoni

  • Mental health and social isolation under repeated mild lockdowns in Japan

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  • Physical Exercise and Immune System in the Elderly: Implications and Importance in COVID-19 Pandemic Period

    Fabiana Rodrigues Scartoni;Leandro de Oliveira Sant’Ana;Leandro de Oliveira Sant’Ana;Eric Murillo-Rodriguez;Tetsuya Yamamoto

  • Maintenance Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Sessions are Associated with Reduced Depressive Relapses in Patients with Unipolar or Bipolar Depression

    Chiara Rapinesi;Francesco Saverio Bersani;Georgios D. Kotzalidis;Claudio Imperatori

  • The association between social media addiction and eating disturbances is mediated by muscle dysmorphia-related symptoms : a cross-sectional study in a sample of young adults

    Claudio Imperatori;Angelo Panno;Giuseppe Alessio Carbone;Ornella Corazza;Ornella Corazza

  • Food Cravings Questionnaire–Trait (FCQ–T) Discriminates Between Obese and Overweight Patients With and Without Binge Eating Tendencies: The Italian Version of the FCQ–T

    Marco Innamorati;Claudio Imperatori;Michela Balsamo;Stella Tamburello

  • Factor Structure of the Binge Eating Scale in a Large Sample of Obese and Overweight Patients Attending Low Energy Diet Therapy

    Claudio Imperatori;Marco Innamorati;Dorian A. Lamis;Anna Contardi

  • The Association among Childhood Trauma, Pathological Dissociation and Gambling Severity in Casino Gamblers

    Claudio Imperatori;Marco Innamorati;Francesco Saverio Bersani;Francesca Imbimbo

  • Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Depression in Young Adults: An ROC Curves Analysis

    Michela Balsamo;Claudio Imperatori;Maria Rita Sergi;Martino Belvederi Murri

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Innamorati
Marco Innamorati European University of Rome
Dorian A. Lamis
Dorian A. Lamis Emory University
Gianluca Castelnuovo
Gianluca Castelnuovo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
David Lester
David Lester Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Gian Mauro Manzoni
Gian Mauro Manzoni Università degli Studi eCampus
Massimo Biondi
Massimo Biondi Sapienza University of Rome
Massimo Clerici
Massimo Clerici University of Milano-Bicocca
Antonios Dakanalis
Antonios Dakanalis University of Milano-Bicocca
Gianluca Esposito
Gianluca Esposito University of Trento
Luigi Janiri
Luigi Janiri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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