What a couple of years these have been! As a psychologist, I should be aware that stress—especially if due to an uncontrolled event, like, for example, a pandemic—can lead people to unusual and sometimes interesting behaviors. My grandmother used to shop for the most useless things (we still have 4 or 5 salad washers/spinners that she bought whence she was sure Italy was going into war 30 years ago)—a friend of mine started to knit cute outfits for her dog. Another one turned her backyard into something so elaborated that the Queen of England would have been impressed. Me? I am stressed—I immerse myself in the magical world of stats and write papers. What you can see below is the result of two very stressful years. Benefits? Well, every single person that worked with me on these papers is an awesome human being (and many of them are our students!)—and working on these papers gave me a great excuse to spend more time with them. (Talking about stats and science, but still…). And some of the research I hope can help to make this world a tiny bit better.
2021:
Gangemi, A., Colombo, B., & Fabio, R. A. (2021). Effects of short-and long-term neurostimulation (tDCS) on Alzheimer’s disease patients: two randomized studies. Aging clinical and experimental research, 33(2), 383-390.
Colombo, B., Anctil, R., Balzarotti, S., Biassoni, F., & Antonietti, A. (2021). The role of the mirror system in influencing musicians’ evaluation of musical creativity. A tDCS study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 298.
Ciccarelli, N., Colombo, B., Pepe, F., Magni, E., Antonietti, A., & Silveri, M. C. (2021). Cognitive reserve: a multidimensional protective factor in Parkinson’s disease related cognitive impairment. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 1-16.
Fusi, G., Colombo, B., Zanetti, M., Crepaldi, M., Rozzini, L., & Rusconi, M. L. (2021). The Effect of Psychological Symptoms on Divergent Thinking in Healthy Older Adults. Creativity Research Journal, 1-9.
2020:
Antonietti, A., Bonacina, S., Colombo, B., & Iannello, P. (2020). Identifying the Creative Act in Advertising: A Study on Naïve People’s Awareness of Restructuring. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 54(3), 535-554.
Colombo, B., Piromalli, G., Pins, B., Taylor, C., & Fabio, R. A. (2020). The relationship between cognitive reserve and personality traits: a pilot study on a healthy aging Italian sample. Aging clinical and experimental research, 32(10), 2031-2040.
Gangemi, A., Colombo, B., & Fabio, R. A. (2020). Effects of short-and long-term neurostimulation (tDCS) on Alzheimer’s disease patients: two randomized studies. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1-8.
Forti, S., Colombo, B., Clark, J., Bonfanti, A., Molteni, S., Crippa, A., … & Molteni, M. (2020). Soundbeam imitation intervention: Training children with autism to imitate meaningless body gestures through music. Advances in Autism.
Colombo, B., Iannello, P., Puglisi, G., & Antonietti, A. (2020). Personal Impulsivity Mediates the Effects of Neuromodulation in Economic Intertemporal Choices: A Pilot Study. Studia Psychologica, 62(2), 123-137.
Fabio, R. A., Gallo, R., & Colombo, B. (2020). Physical and mental health in the oldest-old: a mixed-methods study on a southern Italy sample. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1-8.
Fabio, R.A., Rizzotto, C., & Colombo, B. (2020).The analysis of the independence hypothesis: Working and procedural memory in young adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. Cognition, Brain and Behavior, XXIV (3), 255-270.
2019:
Colombo, B., Balzarotti, S., & Greenwood, A. (2019). Using a reminiscence-based approach to investigate the cognitive reserve of a healthy aging population. Clinical gerontologist, 42(4), 408-420.
de Oliveira, W. A., Caravita, S. C. S., Colombo, B., Donghi, E., da Silva, J. L., & Silva, M. A. I. (2019). Self-Justification Processes Related to Bullying among Brazilian Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1086.
Colombo, B., & Lecciso, F. (2019). Beyond the cortico-centric models of cognition: the role of subcortical functioning in neurodevelopmental disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2809.