Publications
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Psychological Issues in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(2016)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal and progressive disease, characterized by progressive muscles weakness, with consequent loss of physical capacities. Patients become relentlessly immobile and, in the late stages ...
Psychological Responses to Violations of Expectations: Perspectives and Answers from Diverse Fields of Psychology
(2018)
From Pavlov's dog expecting food when hearing a bell to stereotypes as expectations about other people’s behaviour, from Bandura’s self-efficacy as expectation for success and failure of one’s own behaviour to the "predictive ...
Post-Exercise Recovery: Fundamental and Interventional Physiology
(2016)
Physiological responses after maximal and submaximal exercise are routinely monitored in a plethora of diseases (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, asthma, neuromuscular disorders), and normal populations (e.g. ...
Plants as alternative hosts for human and animal pathogens
(2015)
Many of the most prevalent and devastating human and animal pathogens have part of their lifecycle out-with the animal host. These pathogens have a remarkably wide capacity to adapt to a range of quite different environments: ...
Plants' Responses to Novel Environmental Pressures
(2018)
Plants have been exposed to multiple environmental stressors on long-term (seasonal) and short-term (daily) basis since their appearance on land. However, the frequency and the intensity of stress events have increased ...