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Dott.ssa Sara Palermo

Ricercatore/Ricercatrice a tempo determinato di tipo B

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  • Department of Psychology
  • Dipartimento di Psicologia
  • Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche
  • Psicologia clinica

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Sara Palermo is an MSc in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Experimental Neuroscience. Moreover, she obtained the National Scientific Enabling Certificate for Associate Professorship in April 2017 (ASN-2017).  She is an expert in experimental neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology, and advanced neuropsychological testing. Moreover, she performs multidimensional geriatric evaluation and basic neurological symptomatology detection in patients with neurodegenerative disorders. She is also engaged in Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

She worked as a postdoc researcher fellow at the Department of Neuroscience “Rita Levi Montalcini” in Turin until July 2017, becoming a member of the bioPmed innovation cluster. She worked as a postdoc researcher at the Department of Psychology in Turin until January 2020.

To date, she is Scientific Director of the Istituto Nazionale di Filantropia –Filantropolis and Assistant Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology – Neuropsychology. She has just been appointed as a researcher at the Department of Psychology at UNITO. Moreover, she collaborates as a scientific consultant at the Diagnostic and Technology Department - Neuroradiology Unit of the IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan.

She is a research member of the “Center for the Study of Movement Disorders” (research area: Neurology) and the “Placebo Responses Mapping Group” (research area: Physiology) at the Department of Neuroscience, and a member of the “Neuropsychology of cognitive impairment and central nervous system degenerative diseases Group” at the Department of Psychology (Research Area: Psychobiology and physiological psychology). 

She is an ordinary member of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology (SINP), of the Italian Association of Psychogeriatrics (AIP), of the Italian Society of Neurology for Dementia (SiNdem), and – finally – of the international Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS).  Importantly, she was a member of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging (EIP on AHA), for which she was involved in the Action Group A3 Functional decline and frailty. Previously, Sara Palermo had been involved in the European Cooperation in Science & technology with the ISCH COST Action TD1005 “Pain Assessment in Patients with Impaired Cognition, especially Dementia".

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  • Neuropsicologia dell'età audulta
  • Anosognosia e consapevolezza di malattia
  • Invecchiamento fisiologico e fragilità fisico-cognitiva
  • Felicità e salute
  • Psicobiologia del dono e dell'altruismo

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