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Three Effective Ways to Nurture Our Brain

2017

Abstract. A growing body of research suggests that physical activity, healthy eating, and music can, either directly or indirectly, have positive effects on our brain and cognition. More specifically, exercising and eating seem to enhance cognitive abilities, such as memory, creativity, and perception. They also improve academic performance and play a protective role from many degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. Concerning music, research has shown that there exists a general positive relation between music aptitude and cognitive functioning. Furthermore, the presence of music seems to create a positive mood and a higher arousal, which translates into better performance i…

The presence of alexithymia investigated by TAS-20 in chronic urticaria patients: a preliminary report.

2006

OBJECTIVE: Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU), conventionally defined as the occurrence of widespread itchy weals lasting for at least six weeks, has a significant place among the dermatoses related to psychological factors. Emotions that cannot be expressed or elaborated, may be important in the etiology. The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of patients with CIU and compare them in terms of alexithymia. METHODS: Forty consecutive subjects with chronic urticaria were recruited from an outpatient allergologic clinic. All of the subjects completed Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Rorschach Inkblot Test according with Comprehensive System modified by Maurizio Cuffaro admin…

Istituzioni di Economia Politica, Volume II, Macroeconomia, Seconda edizione

2008

Sistemi dell'innovazione: una tassonomia interpretativa

2010

Il concetto di Sistema regionale dell’innovazione ha ispirato negli ultimi decenni un filone di ricerca volto ad evidenziare il funzionamento di relazioni sistemiche rilevanti per il processo innovativo anche a livello meso economico, regionale in particolare. Al di là del dibattito sulla consistenza di tale approccio il quale, peraltro, ha dato impulso ad interessanti riflessioni sui processi di trasferimento delle conoscenze a livello regionale, crescente nel tempo è stata la mole di studi su singoli case-studies e sulle metodologie per rappresentare e misurare le variabili rilevanti per un Sistema regionale dell’innovazione. Il presente lavoro, partendo dall’ipotesi che l’utilizzo dell’a…

La legge di Okun: asimmetrie e differenziali territoriali in Italia

2008

[ABSTRACT] Okun's law turns out from the relationship between economic growth and unemployment fluctuations of the American economy during the sixties. Following his results several analyses tried to test the empirical relevance of the relation, initially estimated by Okun, for different countries and historical periods. Generally, authors found heterogeneous results in estimating Okun's coefficient, depending on the sample and context analylised. Moreover, recent analyses focused on the influence exerted by asymmetric components on the relation between output growth and unemployment rate. In this paper we propose an application regarding the Italian regions. In particular, we perform a pan…

Alcuni limiti dell’indagine continua sulle forze di lavoro. Il contributo delle migrazioni

2010

INDAGINI TASSONOMICHE, ECOLOGICHE E DISTRIBUTIVE SUL GENERE TRIFOLIUM L. IN SICILIA

2011

Effects of low frequency electric fields on synaptic integration in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons: implications for power line emissions

2014

The possible cognitive effects of low frequency external electric fields, such as those generated by power lines, are poorly understood. Their functional consequences for mechanisms at the single neuron level are very difficult to study and identify experimentally, especially in vivo. The major open problem is that experimental investigations on humans have given inconsistent or contradictory results, making it difficult to estimate the possible effects of external low frequency electric fields on cognitive functions. Here we investigate this issue with a realistic model of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. The model suggests how and why external electric fields, with environmentally obser…

Majority and minority influence, task representation and inductive reasoning

1996

One hundred and fifty-five participants had to solve a set of 2–4–6 like reasoning problems (Wason, 1960), in which they were told which hypothesis a majority (or a minority) proposed, as well as which example was used for the test. In a 2 × 2 design, participants were also told that the problems allowed either one single correct answer or several possible answers. Results show that, when the source is a majority and the problem allows one single answer, most participants adopt the source's hypothesis and use confirmatory testing. On the contrary, it is when the source is a minority and the problem allows several answers that most participants give alternative hypotheses and use disconfirma…

Paired associate learning tasks and their contribution to reading skills

2016

Associative learning has been identified as one of several non-linguistic processes involved in reading acquisition. However, it has not been established whether it is an independent process that contributes to reading performance on its own or whether it is a process that is embedded in other linguistic skills (e.g., phonological awareness or phonological memory) and, therefore, contributing to reading performance indirectly. Research has shown that performance on tasks assessing associative learning, e.g., paired-associate learning (PAL) tasks, is lower in children with specific reading difficulties compared to typical readers. We explored the differential associations of two distinct ver…