Giovanni Portuesi

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Do you think that you can apply the diagnosis of "Personality Disorder" in a person that has a low IQ?

From a practical point of view, could you apply the diagnosis of Personality Disorder in a low IQ level, only when the deficit is mild?

12 December 2018 1,798 1 View

Is our perceptual - cognitive cerebral system naturally prone to give a meaning to our interior and exterior perceptions?

This is rather a evidence ( do you agree? ) but I would like to have some opiniono and bibliography about this statement. Thanks.

11 November 2018 4,085 1 View

There are been any advance or research in neurosciences regarding Bion vision of dreams as a way to think ?

I think that Mauro Mancia and Thomas Ogden gave valuable contributions

10 October 2018 9,719 0 View

Maybe some big companies could build their products "obsolescence programmed" to sell more new products. What about developing an app to fight that ?

It could be an app where everyone could register by himself his product when it' s bought. Then everyone could register the moment when his product is not more working and it' s not more...

10 October 2018 4,985 3 View

Some references or explanations about similarities and differences between meso-limbic reward system and salience meso-limbic-cortical sistem?

I know that the question is very complex but both systems described in the literature are related to learning and motivation and have dopamine as neuro-mediator.

10 October 2018 5,049 0 View

Can "placebo effect" share some basic feature with the " transfert" phoenomena described by S. Freud ?

At the beginning Freud disliked transferential reactions, considering them interferences, without a specific meaning ( like " suggestion" ). In order to distinguish the real therapeutic problems...

09 September 2018 2,917 7 View

Are there studies about the role of "aberrant salience" in the delusion formation, taking in account the variability of the delusional symptom?

In the last years many studies argued the role of the neurocognitive process called " abnormal salience" in the patogenesis of some psychotic symptom like delusion. It seems to me that the marked...

09 September 2018 1,496 0 View

What could be the adaptative reason of the " mesolimbic motivational system" activated both by "rewarding stimuli" and by "punishing stimuli" ?

As described in the paper " Incentive motivational salience and the human brain" by Jimmy Jensen and Henrik Walter? ( Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 32 ( 2014 ) 141-147

09 September 2018 2,995 0 View

Putting the display of the mobile on "reader mode" ( it reduce the amount of blue light and the "eyes strains" ) could be really an healty choice?

I would like to have some evidence in deciding the safety of a prolonged use of the mobile on the eyes ( of course there is always the microwawe questions).

09 September 2018 7,848 2 View