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Franco Fabbro

Franco Fabbro

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Psychology

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10420
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Overview

Franco Fabbro is affiliated with the University of Udine in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research focuses primarily on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with notable work also in experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics, including mindfulness and compassion interventions, the mental health impacts of COVID-19, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional areas of focus are psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Psychology and Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Minerva Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience Applied

Notable recent papers by Franco Fabbro include:

  • "Positive Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on Mental Health of Female Teachers during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy" (2020) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Stuck Outside and Inside: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Italian Parents and Children's Internalizing Symptoms" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on the Wandering Mind: a Systematic Review" (2021) published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Teachers' Self-Reported Personality Traits As Well As Stress and Burnout Levels" (2020) published in Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • "A Neural Circuit for Spirituality and Religiosity Derived From Patients With Brain Lesions" (2021) published in Biological Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include Cristiano Crescentini, Alessio Matiz, Paolo Brambilla, Andrea Paschetto, and Susanna Feruglio. The scientist's collaborative efforts are reflected in numerous coauthored publications with these researchers.

Best Publications

  • The bilingual brain: cerebral representation of languages.

    Franco Fabbro

  • The lateralized linguistic cerebellum: A review and a new hypothesis

    Peter Marien;Sebastiaan Engelborghs;Franco Fabbro;Peter P. De Deyn

  • The Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism: An Introduction

    Franco Fabbro

  • Disorders of cognitive and affective development in cerebellar malformations.

    Alessandro Tavano;Rita Grasso;Chiara Gagliardi;Fabio Triulzi

  • The bilingual brain: bilingual aphasia.

    Franco Fabbro

  • Pathological switching between languages after frontal lesions in a bilingual patient

    Franco Fabbro;Miran Skrap;Salvatore Aglioti

  • The spiritual brain: selective cortical lesions modulate human self-transcendence

    Cosimo Urgesi;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Miran Skrap;Franco Fabbro

  • Simulating the Future of Actions in the Human Corticospinal System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Marta Maieron;Alessio Avenanti;Emmanuele Tidoni

  • Verbal Memory During Simultaneous Interpretation: Effects of Phonological Interference

    Valeria Darò;Franco Fabbro

  • Neurolinguistic and follow-up study of an unusual pattern of recovery from bilingual subcortical aphasia.

    Salvatore Aglioti;Alberto Beltramello;Flavia Girardi;Franco Fabbro

  • The neurolinguistics of bilingualism

    F Fabbro

  • Language impairments in patients with cerebellar lesions

    Franco Fabbro;Rita Moretti;Antonio Bava

  • Meditation-related activations are modulated by the practices needed to obtain it and by the expertise: an ALE meta-analysis study.

    Barbara Tomasino;Sara Fregona;Miran Skrap;Franco Fabbro

  • Paradoxical selective recovery in a bilingual aphasic following subcortical lesions

    Salvatore Aglioti;Franco Fabbro

  • Motor facilitation during action observation: topographic mapping of the target muscle and influence of the onlooker's posture.

    Cosimo Urgesi;Matteo Candidi;Franco Fabbro;Michela Romani

  • Positive Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on Mental Health of Female Teachers during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy.

    Alessio Matiz;Franco Fabbro;Franco Fabbro;Andrea Paschetto;Damiano Cantone

  • Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation for Primary School Children: Effects on Attention and Psychological Well-Being.

    Cristiano Crescentini;Viviana Capurso;Viviana Capurso;Samantha Furlan;Franco Fabbro;Franco Fabbro

  • Neuropsychological Profile in High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Antonio Narzisi;Filippo Muratori;Sara Calderoni;Franco Fabbro

  • Complete mutism after midbrain periaqueductal gray lesion.

    Antonio Esposito;Guy Demeurisse;Barbara Alberti;Franco Fabbro

  • Mindful creativity: the influence of mindfulness meditation on creative thinking

    Viviana Capurso;Viviana Capurso;Franco Fabbro;Cristiano Crescentini;Cristiano Crescentini

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan
Cosimo Urgesi
Cosimo Urgesi University of Udine
Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Marini
Andrea Marini University of Udine
Nereo Bresolin
Nereo Bresolin University of Milan
Matteo Balestrieri
Matteo Balestrieri University of Udine
Massimo Molteni
Massimo Molteni University of Padua
Maria Nobile
Maria Nobile Eugenio Medea
Angelo Picardi
Angelo Picardi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Filippo Muratori
Filippo Muratori University of Pisa

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