Francesca Fusina, Ph.D.

Pubblicazioni e Formazione

Formazione universitaria:

  • Dottorato di Ricerca in Neuroscience, Padova Neuroscience Center e Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova.
    Tesi: “Psychophysiology of emotional processing and its alterations: novel and translational approaches”.
    Voto finale: eccellente, con attribuzione della lode.
  • Laurea Magistrale in Psicologia Clinica, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova.
    Tesi: “Risposte emozionali psicofisiologiche e tratti di personalità in maschi con alta e bassa reattività cardiaca”.
    Voto finale: 110/110.
  • Laurea Triennale in Scienze Psicologiche della Personalità e delle Relazioni Interpersonali, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova.
    Tesi: “Intervista strutturata per il Disturbo da Accumulo: contributo alla validazione su un campione tratto dalla popolazione clinica italiana con lieve deficit cognitivo”. Voto finale: 110/110L.

Altri corsi e qualifiche:

  • (2022 – in corso) Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Comportamentale presso l’Istituto di Terapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale (ITC), Padova.
  • (2023) Corso residenziale Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: un percorso verso la flessibilità psicologica, tenuto dal prof. Miselli.
  • (2023) Workshop Introduttivo alla DBT della Società Italiana per la Dialectical Behavior Therapy (SIDBT), tenuto dal prof. Maffei.
  • (2022) Corso Mindful Eating: Riconnettersi con il proprio corpo, tenuto dalla prof.ssa Montesarchio.
  • (2021) Corsi base e avanzato in Psicologia dello Sport presso Psymedisport Group.
  • (2020) Abilitazione all’iscrizione alla sezione A dell’albo degli Psicologi, voto: 50/50.
  • (2018) Corso di Biofeedback presso Inside Human Performance.
  • (2017) Corsi Avanzati per la Ricerca Scientifica (CARS) in eye tracking, high-density EEG, Psychtoolbox di Matlab e Matlab di base, presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale.
  • (2015) Cambridge English Level 3 Certificate in ESOL International Certificate of Proficiency in English, livello C2, voto: A, presso Cambridge School of English.

Articoli pubblicati su riviste scientifiche Italiane e internazionali:

  • Congiu, A., Vesentini, R., Locatelli, F., Zamboni, L., Giordano, R., Carli, S., … & Lugoboni, F. (2023). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Tobacco Addiction: Clinical and Social Characteristics in a Large Sample of Tobacco Smokers. Medical Research Archives, 11(10).
  • Santin, L., Verlato, G., Tfaily, A., Manera, R., Zinfollino, G., Fusina, F., & Lugoboni, F. (2023). Methadone Maintenance and QT-Interval: Prevalence and Risk Factors—Is It Effective to Switch Therapy to Levomethadone? Biomedicines, 11(8), 2109. 
  • Pardini, S., Olivetto, S., Fusina, F., & Novara, C. (2023). The experience of leaving a valuable object: An investigation of emotional processes related to Hoarding disorder features. Plos one, 18(2), e0280933.
  • Pardini, S., Gabrielli, S., Olivetto, S., Fusina, F., Dianti, M., Forti, S., … & Novara, C. (2023). Personalized, Naturalistic Virtual Reality Scenarios Coupled With Web-Based Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training for the General Population: Protocol for a Proof-of-Principle Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 12(1), e44183.
  • Zandonai, T., Peiró, A. M., Fusina, F., Lugoboni, F., & Zamboni, L. (2022). Benzodiazepines in sport, an underestimated problem: recommendations for sports medicine physicians’ practice. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2875.
  • Campagnari, S., Zamboni, L., Fusina, F., Casari, R., & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Case Report: High doses of Zoplidem and QT interval lengthening: Is there a relationship? A case series. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 1033061.
  • Zamboni, L., Toldo, S., Fusina, F., Mattiello, M., Mannari, V., Campagnari, S., … & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Study protocol – Evoked craving in high-dose benzodiazepine users. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 956892.
  • Zamboni, L., Campanari, S., Giordano, R., Fusina, F., Carli, S., Congiu, A., … & Lugoboni, F. (2002). A virtual reality craving study in tobacco addiction: The role of non-pharmacological support in tobacco detox therapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 940100.
  • Lugoboni, F., Stella, L., Zamboni, L., Campagnari, S., Fusina, F., & De Bernardis, E. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination and drug users: Past, present, and future. Journal of Public Health Research, 11(3), 22799036221105314.
  • Campagnari, S., Casari, R., Zamboni, L., Fusina, F., & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Cytisine induced urticaria: a case report during a smoking cessation treatment. Acta Biomedica Atenei Parmensis, 93(S1), e2022073. 
  • Romeo, Z., Fusina, F., Semenzato, L., Bonato, M., Angrilli, A., & Spironelli, C. (2022). Comparison of slides and video clips as different methods for inducing emotions: An EEG Alpha modulation study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 901422.
  • Fusina, F., Marino, M., Spironelli, C., & Angrilli, A. (2022). Ventral Attention Network correlates with high traits of emotion dysregulation in community women-a resting-state EEG study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 895034.
  • Giordano, R., Donati, M. A., Zamboni, L., Fusina, F., Primi, C., & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Alter Game: A Study Protocol on a Virtual “Serious Game” for Relapse Prevention in Patients With Gambling Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 854088.
  • Casari, R., Zamboni, L., Fusina, F., & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Letter to editor, a comment to: Prevalence and concentrations of sedative-hypnotic drugs in blood of drivers involved in road traffic crashes in the Padova region of Italy-not so easy to interpret. Forensic Science International, 332, 111204.
  • Zamboni, L., Portoghese, I., Congiu, A., Zandonai, T., Casari, R., Fusina, F., … & Lugoboni, F. (2022). Polysubstance use patterns among high dose benzodiazepine users: a latent class analysis and differences between male and female use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 811130.
  • Zamboni, L., Marchetti, P., Congiu, A., Giordano, R., Fusina, F., Carli, S., … & Lugoboni, F. (2021). ASRS Questionnaire and Tobacco Use: Not Just a Cigarette. A Screening Study in an Italian Young Adult Sample. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 2920.
  • Zamboni, L., Centoni, F., Fusina, F., Mantovani, E., Rubino, F., Lugoboni, F., & Federico, A. (2021). The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A Narrative Review of Evidence. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 209(11), 835-845.
  • Lugoboni, F., Casari, R., Fusina, F., & Zamboni, L. (2021). Zolpidem: A masked hero. A reply to ZORRO study. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 87(10), 4040-4041.
  • Spironelli, C., Fusina, F., Bortolomasi, M., & Angrilli, A. (2021). EEG Frontal Asymmetry in Dysthymia, Major Depressive Disorder and Euthymic Bipolar Disorder. Symmetry, 13(12), 2414.

Contributi a convegni nazionali ed internazionali:

  • Fusina, F., Marino, M., & Angrilli, A. (2023). Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between heart rate and Ventral Attention Network connectivity. SIPF Congress 2023, Siena, Italy.
  • Angrilli, A., & Fusina, F. (2023). Brain functional connectivity in women with high emotional dysregulation traits: an EEG study with alpha and gamma bands on the role of the Ventral Attention Network (VAN). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 188, 50-51. 
  • Puccio, G., Franceschini, S., Bertoni, S., Fusina, F., Angrilli, A., & Facoetti, A. (2023). Two Cups of Coffee to Improve Text reading Abilities, Semantic Association and to Make Activities More Fun. In International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia. 
  • Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2022). Gamma EEG modulation during affective film clip presentation in women with high vs low Emotion Dysregulation Traits. 30th AIP Congress, Padova, Italy.
  • Puccio, G., Franceschini, S., Bertoni, S., Fusina, F., Angrilli, A. & Facoetti, A. (2022). Caffeine makes activities more fun and boosts semantic association and text reading abilities. 30th AIP Congress, Padova, Italy.
  • Fusina, F., Marino, M., Romeo, Z., Spironelli, C., & Angrilli, A. (2022). Resting state network dynamics and high traits of emotion dysregulation. SPR Congress 2022, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2022). Alpha and Gamma functional connectivity in the Ventral Attention Network correlate with high traits of Emotion Dysregulation. XXX SIPF Congress 2022, Udine, Italy.
  • Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2021). Altered Gamma EEG Response to Emotional Movies in Women With High Traits of Emotional Dysregulation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 168, S148-S149.
  • Spironelli, C., Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2021). Frontal EEG Asymmetry in Major Depression, Dysthymia and Bipolar Disorder. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 168, S145.
  • Spironelli, C., Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2021). Delta and theta eeg activity during resting state is altered in patients affected by major depression. European Psychiatry, 64(S1), S338-S339.
  • Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2021). High vs low trait primary psychopathy in males: Differences in cardiac responses to emotional film clips. European Psychiatry, 64(1), S444-S444.
  • Fusina, F., Maffei, A., & Angrilli, A. (2020). Emotional gaze recognition and empathy in women with high vs low borderline personality traits. European Psychiatry, 63, S193-S193.
  • Spironelli, C., Fusina, F., Pasini, I., & Angrilli, A. (2020). Brain asymmetry in resting state and during linguistic tasks in major depression vs. dysthymia: an EEG alpha study. European Psychiatry, 63, S110-S110.
  • Fusina, F., & Angrilli, A. (2020). EEG Alpha band alteration during emotional stimulation in women with high vs low emotional dysregulation traits. European Psychiatry, 63, S193-S193.
  • Fusina, F., Maffei, A., & Angrilli, A. (2020, April). Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: empathy differences in subjects with high vs low emotion dysregulation traits. Personality And Individual Differences, 157.
  • Fusina, F., Maffei, A., & Angrilli, A. (2018). Cardiac responses to emotional film clips in males with high vs low trait primary psychopathy. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 131, S78.

Società scientifiche di cui sono membro:

  • Federazione Italiana Psicologi dello Sport (FIPsiS) – socio
  • Associazione Italiana di Analisi e Modificazione del Comportamento e Terapia Comportamentale e Cognitiva (AIAMC) – socio aderente
  • Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) – socio affiliato, sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale
  • Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) – socio
  • Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia (SIPF) – socio giovane