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Daniela Palomba

Daniela Palomba

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
5490
World Ranking
10168
National Ranking
228

Overview

Daniela Palomba is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology and medicine, with notable contributions to cardiology, cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their work involves exploration in the following main fields of study:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Subfields covered in their research include:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology

Palomba's main research topics involve:

  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Simone Messerotti Benvenuti
  • Carola Dell'Acqua
  • Elisabetta Patron
  • Elisa Dal Bò
  • Claudio Gentili

Their papers have been published repeatedly in key venues such as:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Palomba include:

  • Reduced heart rate variability is associated with vulnerability to depression, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
  • Blood pressure-related hypoalgesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Hypertension
  • EEG time-frequency analysis reveals blunted tendency to approach and increased processing of unpleasant stimuli in dysphoria, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Multidimensional components of (state) mathematics anxiety: Behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and psychophysiological consequences, 2023, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Attention and affect in dysphoria: Insights from startle reflex modulation and cardiac deceleration, 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy

Best Publications

  • Efficacy of Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Ioana A. Cristea;Claudio Gentili;Carmen D. Cotet;Daniela Palomba

  • Visual evoked potentials, heart rate responses and memory to emotional pictorial stimuli

    Daniela Palomba;Alessandro Angrilli;Alessio Mini

  • Cardiac responses associated with affective processing of unpleasant film stimuli.

    Daniela Palomba;Michela Sarlo;Alessandro Angrilli;Alessio Mini

  • Startle reflex and emotion modulation impairment after a right amygdala lesion

    Alessandro Angrilli;Alessandra Mauri;Daniela Palomba;Herta Flor

  • Attentional resources measured by reaction times highlight differences within pleasant and unpleasant, high arousing stimuli.

    Giulia Buodo;Michela Sarlo;Daniela Palomba

  • Frontal alpha asymmetry neurofeedback for the reduction of negative affect and anxiety.

    Rocco Mennella;Elisabetta Patron;Daniela Palomba

  • Emotional Information Processing and Visual Evoked Brain Potentials

    Alessio Mini;Daniela Palomba;Alessandro Angrilli;Stefano Bravi

  • Emotional impairment after right orbitofrontal lesion in a patient without cognitive deficits.

    Alessandro Angrilli;Daniela Palomba;Anna Cantagallo;Alessandra Maietti

  • Changes in EEG alpha power to different disgust elicitors: the specificity of mutilations.

    Michela Sarlo;Giulia Buodo;Silvia Poli;Daniela Palomba

  • Health risk factors in caregivers of terminal cancer patients: a pilot study.

    Alice Corà;Manuela Partinico;Marianna Munafò;Daniela Palomba

  • Stimulus-Preceding Negativity and heart rate changes in anticipation of affective pictures

    Silvia Poli;Michela Sarlo;Marta Bortoletto;Giulia Buodo

  • Temporal dynamics of cognitive-emotional interplay in moral decision-making

    Michela Sarlo;Lorella Lotto;Andrea Manfrinati;Rino Rumiati

  • Cortical brain responses to semantic incongruity and syntactic violation in Italian language: an event-related potential study

    Alessandro Angrilli;Barbara Penolazzi;Francesco Vespignani;Marica De Vincenzi

  • Pavlovian conditioning of muscular responses in chronic pain patients: central and peripheral correlates

    Christoph Schneider;Daniela Palomba;Herta Flor

  • If it makes you feel bad, don't do it! Egoistic rather than altruistic empathy modulates neural and behavioral responses in moral dilemmas

    Michela Sarlo;Lorella Lotto;Rino Rumiati;Daniela Palomba

  • Baroreceptor cortical effects, emotions and pain

    Alessio Mini;Harald Rau;Pedro Montoya;Daniela Palomba

  • Blood phobia and spider phobia: two specific phobias with different autonomic cardiac modulations

    Michela Sarlo;Daniela Palomba;Alessandro Angrilli;Luciano Stegagno

  • Electrophysiological evidence of visual encoding deficits in a cross-modal attentional blink paradigm.

    R. Dell'acqua;P. Jolicoeur;F. Pesciarelli;R. Job

  • Blood pressure changes highlight gender differences in emotional reactivity to arousing pictures.

    Michela Sarlo;Daniela Palomba;Giulia Buodo;Rita Minghetti

  • Cardiovascular dynamics in blood phobia: evidence for a key role of sympathetic activity in vulnerability to syncope.

    Michela Sarlo;Giulia Buodo;Marianna Munafò;Luciano Stegagno

  • Health Risk Factors in Caregivers of Terminal Cancer Patients

    Alice Cora;Manuela Partinico;Daniela Palomba

Frequent Co-Authors

Michela Sarlo
Michela Sarlo University of Urbino
Alessandro Angrilli
Alessandro Angrilli University of Padua
Luigi Castelli
Luigi Castelli University of Padua
Marta Ghisi
Marta Ghisi University of Padua
Remo Job
Remo Job University of Trento
Anne Schienle
Anne Schienle University of Graz
Lucia Mason
Lucia Mason University of Padua
Roberto Dell'Acqua
Roberto Dell'Acqua University of Padua
Markus Junghöfer
Markus Junghöfer University of Münster
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University

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