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Overview

Pietro Pietrini is affiliated with the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy. Their research spans multiple facets of neuroscience and psychology, with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work also touches upon clinical psychology, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Pietrini's recent publications cover a range of topics in neuroscience and mental health, including studies on multisensory perception, neural dynamics, and brain function. Some of their notable papers include:

  • Machine learning and the prediction of suicide in psychiatric populations: a systematic review (2024) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • Integrity of Corpus Callosum Is Essential for the Cross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves: A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients (2020) published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Prioritization of Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases by Integrating Genetic and Proteomic Data From Brain and Blood (2022) published in Biological Psychiatry
  • EEG frequency-tagging demonstrates increased left hemispheric involvement and crossmodal plasticity for face processing in congenitally deaf signers (2020) published in NeuroImage
  • Reductions in perceived stress following Transcendental Meditation practice are associated with increased brain regional connectivity at rest (2020) published in Brain and Cognition

Their research explores several key topics:

  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Pietrini frequently collaborates with scholars such as Emiliano Ricciardi, Luca Cecchetti, Davide Bottari, Giacomo Handjaras, and Giulio Bernardi. Their work is often published in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Psychophysiology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, and European Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex

    James V. Haxby;M. Ida Gobbini;Maura L. Furey;Alumit Ishai

  • The functional organization of human extrastriate cortex: a PET-rCBF study of selective attention to faces and locations

    James V. Haxby;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Jose Ma Maisog

  • The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition

    Etienne Koechlin;Gianpaolo Basso;Pietro Pietrini;Seth Panzer

  • Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: Regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome.

    Daniel H. S. Silverman;Gary W. Small;Carol Y. Chang;Carolyn S. Lu

  • Age-related changes in cortical blood flow activation during visual processing of faces and location

    Cheryl L. Grady;Jose Ma Maisog;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Age-related reductions in human recognition memory due to impaired encoding.

    Cheryl L. Grady;Anthony R. McIntosh;Barry Horwitz;Jose Ma. Maisog

  • Forgiveness, Health, and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence for Emotional Versus Decisional Forgiveness, Dispositional Forgivingness, and Reduced Unforgiveness

    Everett L. Worthington;Charlotte Van Oyen Witvliet;Pietro Pietrini;Andrea J. Miller

  • Sex Differences in Human Brain Morphometry and Metabolism: An In Vivo Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography Study on the Effect of Aging

    Declan G. M. Murphy;Charles DeCarli;Andrew R. McIntosh;Eileen Daly

  • Beyond sensory images: Object-based representation in the human ventral pathway

    Pietro Pietrini;Maura L. Furey;Emiliano Ricciardi;M. Ida Gobbini

  • Longitudinal PET Evaluation of Cerebral Metabolic Decline in Dementia: A Potential Outcome Measure in Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Studies

    Gene E. Alexander;Kewei Chen;Pietro Pietrini;Stanley I. Rapoport

  • Cerebral glucose metabolism in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Revisualization during pharmacotherapy.

    Susan E. Swedo;Pietro Pietrini;Henrietta L. Leonard;Mark B. Schapiro

  • Association of premorbid intellectual function with cerebral metabolism in Alzheimer's disease: implications for the cognitive reserve hypothesis

    Gene E. Alexander;Maura L. Furey;Cheryl L. Grady;Pietro Pietrini

  • Altered brain functional connectivity and impaired short-term memory in Alzheimer's disease

    Cheryl L. Grady;Maura L. Furey;Pietro Pietrini;Barry Horwitz

  • Dissociating the role of the medial and lateral anterior prefrontal cortex in human planning

    Etienne Koechlin;Gregory Corrado;Pietro Pietrini;Jordan Grafman

  • Neural correlates of imaginal aggressive behavior assessed by positron emission tomography in healthy subjects.

    Pietro Pietrini;Mario Guazzelli;Gianpaolo Basso;Karen Jaffe

  • Frontotemporal dementia and its subtypes: a genome-wide association study

    Raffaele Ferrari;Raffaele Ferrari;Dena G Hernandez;Dena G Hernandez;Michael A Nalls;Jonathan D Rohrer

  • Regional glucose metabolic abnormalities are not the result of atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    Vicente Ibáñez;Pietro Pietrini;Gene E. Alexander;Maura L. Furey

  • Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi;Irene Mammarella

  • Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory.

    Maura L. Furey;Pietro Pietrini;James V. Haxby

  • The metabolic topography of normal aging.

    J. R. Moeller;T. Ishikawa;V. Dhawan;P. Spetsieris

Frequent Co-Authors

Emiliano Ricciardi
Emiliano Ricciardi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Maura L. Furey
Maura L. Furey Janssen (Belgium)
Gene E. Alexander
Gene E. Alexander University of Arizona
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz National Institutes of Health
James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby Dartmouth College
Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman Northwestern University
Marc J. Mentis
Marc J. Mentis New York University
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology

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