Gaetano Valenza

This study investigates functional Brain-Heart Interplay (BHI) dynamics in individuals with depressive symptoms compared to healthy controls, finding altered efferent and afferent activity patterns associated with negative emotional processing.

This study examines brain-heart interplay during mental stress, finding dynamic fluctuations in sympathetic and parasympathetic modulations and bidirectional interactions between EEG and autonomic activities.

This study examines how heart rate, breathing rate, and frontal fNIRS data affect interoception during heartbeat counting tasks, finding that these factors influence physiological and neural dynamics.

This paper introduces a Bayesian non-parametric cross-mapping method to estimate task-evoked directed functional connectivity from fMRI data, revealing new patterns of information flow in face processing.

This study shows that nonlinear analysis of high-frequency fNIRS data reveals distinct neurovascular representations compared to linear analysis, highlighting the importance of considering nonlinear effects in hemodynamic responses.

The paper investigates the functional brain-heart interplay during emotional processing using EEG and ECG data from healthy participants, showing that sympathovagal activity initiates and sustains emotional responses.