Rita B. Ardito

TL;DR: The emerging picture suggests that the quality of the client–therapist alliance is a reliable predictor of positive clinical outcome independent of the variety of psychotherapy approaches and outcome measures.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the network supporting the representation of intentions is dysfunctional in patients with schizophrenia dependent on the type of intention involved, and patients with paranoid schizophrenia showed significantly less activation in three regions typically activated in ToM tasks.

TL;DR: The performance of patients with Anorexia Nervosa is significantly worse than that of healthy controls on tasks assessing emotional functioning, whereas patients’ performance is comparable to that ofhealthy controls on the Theory of Mind task.

TL;DR: The PD impairments on emotion recognition and representation do not correlate with dopamine therapy, disease severity, or with the duration of illness, and are independent from other cognitive processes, such as global cognitive status and executive function, or from psychiatric status,such as depression, anxiety or apathy.

TL;DR: Investigating the neural basis of the chemotherapy induced neurobehavioral changes by means of metabolic imaging and neuropsychological testing concluded that the mechanism could be an accelerating ageing / oxidative stress that, in some patients at risk, could result in an early and persistent cognitive impairment.