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Cristina Ottaviani

Cristina Ottaviani

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
6256
World Ranking
7633
National Ranking
156

Overview

Cristina Ottaviani is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, with research primarily focused in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their work spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in their publications relate to heart rate variability and autonomic control, mental health research topics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, stress responses and cortisol, functional brain connectivity studies, vagus nerve stimulation research, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Biological Psychology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Cristina Ottaviani are:

  • "Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology" (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability" (2020), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group" (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "A meta-analytic investigation of consumer over-indebtedness: The role of impulsivity" (2020), published in International Journal of Consumer Studies
  • "Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group" (2021), published in Translational Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cristina Ottaviani include Martino Schettino, Julian F. Thayer, Luca Carnevali, Guido Alessandri, and Chiara Parrillo. These collaborations have contributed significantly to the breadth of research outputs across psychological and neuroscientific domains.

Best Publications

  • Physiological concomitants of perseverative cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Cristina Ottaviani;Julian F. Thayer;Bart Verkuil;Antonia Lonigro

  • Yoga as a complementary treatment of depression: effects of traits and moods on treatment outcome.

    David D Shapiro;Ian A Ia Cook;Dmitry M Dm Davydov;Cristina C Ottaviani

  • Alterations in amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity account for excessive worry and autonomic dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder

    Elena Makovac;Frances Meeten;Frances Meeten;Frances Meeten;David R. Watson;Aleksandra Herman

  • Flexibility as the key for somatic health: From mind wandering to perseverative cognition.

    Cristina Ottaviani;David Shapiro;Alessandro Couyoumdjian

  • Impulsivity and household indebtedness: Evidence from real life

    Cristina Ottaviani;Daniela Vandone

  • Cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic correlates of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in major depression

    Cristina Ottaviani;Leila Shahabi;Mika Tarvainen;Ian Cook

  • Can't get it off my brain: Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on perseverative cognition

    Elena Makovac;Sabrina Fagioli;Charlotte L. Rae;Hugo D. Critchley

  • Dimensionality of self-compassion: translation and construct validation of the self-compassion scale in an Italian sample.

    Nicola Petrocchi;Cristina Ottaviani;Alessandro Couyoumdjian

  • A meta-analysis of non-invasive brain stimulation and autonomic functioning: Implications for brain-heart pathways to cardiovascular disease.

    Elena Makovac;Julian F. Thayer;Cristina Ottaviani

  • The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability.

    Maria Di Bello;Luca Carnevali;Nicola Petrocchi;Julian F. Thayer

  • Pros and cons of a wandering mind: a prospective study.

    Cristina Ottaviani;Alessandro Couyoumdjian

  • Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology.

    Omer Van den Bergh;Jos Brosschot;Hugo Critchley;Julian F Thayer

  • How do we decide what to do? Resting-state connectivity patterns and components of self-generated thought linked to the development of more concrete personal goals.

    Barbara Medea;Theodoros Karapanagiotidis;Mahiko Konishi;Cristina Ottaviani

  • Mindfulness facets distinctively predict depressive symptoms after two years: The mediating role of rumination

    Nicola Petrocchi;Cristina Ottaviani

  • “Far from the heart far from the eye”: Evidence from the Capgras delusion

    Gianni Brighetti;Paola Bonifacci;Rosita Borlimi;Cristina Ottaviani

  • Autonomic and Brain Morphological Predictors of Stress Resilience.

    Luca Carnevali;Julian Koenig;Andrea Sgoifo;Cristina Ottaviani

  • Heart rate variability mediates the link between rumination and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study.

    Luca Carnevali;Julian F. Thayer;Jos F. Brosschot;Cristina Ottaviani

  • Mind-wandering and alterations to default mode network connectivity when listening to naturalistic versus artificial sounds.

    Cassandra D. Gould van Praag;Cassandra D. Gould van Praag;Sarah N. Garfinkel;Sarah N. Garfinkel;Oliver Sparasci;Alex Mees

  • The autonomic phenotype of rumination

    Cristina Ottaviani;David Shapiro;Dmitry M. Davydov;Iris B. Goldstein

  • Brain-heart interaction in perseverative cognition

    Cristina Ottaviani

  • Rumination in the laboratory: what happens when you go back to everyday life?

    Cristina Ottaviani;David Shapiro;Leah Fitzgerald

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Jos F. Brosschot
Jos F. Brosschot Leiden University
Sarah N. Garfinkel
Sarah N. Garfinkel University College London
Gretchen J. Diefenbach
Gretchen J. Diefenbach Yale University
Roberto Baiocco
Roberto Baiocco Sapienza University of Rome
Fiorenzo Laghi
Fiorenzo Laghi Sapienza University of Rome
Nic J.A. van der Wee
Nic J.A. van der Wee Leiden University Medical Center
Narcís Cardoner
Narcís Cardoner Autonomous University of Barcelona
Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan
Gabriella Antonucci
Gabriella Antonucci Sapienza University of Rome

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