Federica Riva

This study shows that aging and loneliness impair trust learning through reduced amygdala function and altered reward signaling.

This study investigates the relationship between ghrelin levels and neural responses to social and non-social rewards, finding no significant association with social rewards but a link to non-social rewards.

This fMRI study identifies distinct roles of the basolateral and central amygdala in trust learning, showing BLA involvement in outcome evaluation and CeA in decision planning.

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects empathy for pain by examining neural responses to naturalistic depictions of others' pain in a somatotopically matched manner.

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component of empathy for pain and finds no evidence of such effects.

This study investigates age-related changes in emotional egocentric bias using neuroimaging, finding that older adults show higher bias linked to reduced connectivity in the right supramarginal gyrus.