Combining Sudomotor Nerve Impulse Estimation with FMRI to Investigate the Central Sympathetic Response to Nausea
Sclocco, Roberta ; Citi, Luca ; Garcia, Ronald ; Cerutti, Sergio ; Bianchi, Anna Maria ; Kuo, Braden ; Napadow, Vitaly ; Barbieri, Riccardo
Brain physiology and modeling
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Brain functional imaging – fMRI
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Brain functional imaging – Spatial-temporal dynamics
The skin conductance (SC) signal is one of the most important non-invasive indirect measures of autonomic outflow. Several mathematical…
EEG-Based Index for Engagement Level Monitoring during Sustained Attention
Coelli, Stefania ; Sclocco, Roberta ; Barbieri, Riccardo ; Reni, Gianluigi ; Zucca, Claudio ; Bianchi, Anna Maria
Signal processing in physiological systems
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Nonstationary processing of biomedical signals
This paper investigates the relation between mental engagement level and sustained attention in 9 healthy adults performing a Conners’…
Investigating Autonomic Correlates of Continuous Pain in the Brainstem through High-Field FMRI
Sclocco, Roberta ; Beissner, Florian ; Polimeni, Jonathan ; Desbordes, Gaelle ; Wald, Lawrence L. ; Cerutti, Sergio ; Bianchi, Anna Maria ; Barbieri, Riccardo ; Napadow, Vitaly
Brain functional imaging – fMRI
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Brain physiology and modeling
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Brain functional imaging – Spatial-temporal dynamics
The brainstem is a fundamental brain structure that includes afferent and efferent pathways and regulatory nuclei. However, it is still poorly…
Neuroimaging Nausea to Better Understand Central Autonomic Network Physiology – A Multi-Modal Approach
Napadow, Vitaly ; Sclocco, Roberta ; Kim, Jieun ; Kuo, Braden ; Barbieri, Riccardo
Human performance – Vestibular functions
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Brain functional imaging – fMRI
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Brain functional imaging – Connectivity and information flow
Nausea is an aversive sensation and a symptom of many gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal disorders. Nausea is associated with robust…
Revealing Brain Correlates of Autonomic Modulation by Combining Point Process Models of Heartbeat Dynamics with FMRI
Barbieri, Riccardo ; Sclocco, Roberta ; Napadow, Vitaly
Brain physiology and modeling
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Brain functional imaging – fMRI
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Brain functional imaging – Spatial-temporal dynamics
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to internal and external stimuli have been investigated by multiple studies. However, the brain…