Deaprtment of Psychology,
University of Turin, Italy.
 | sara.palermo@iunito.it |
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 she has just been appointed as a researcher at the Department of Psychology at UNITO. Moreover, she works as a scientific consultant at the Neuroradiology Department 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".
The main topics of her research are the study of awareness of illness, metacognitive-executive deficits in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, physical and cognitive frailty in the elderly, and placebo/nocebo phenomena. Interestingly, all of them may represent appealing perspectives from which to study how neuropsychological abnormalities can be explained in terms of brain activities and with the use of neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological batteries considering a neurocognitive approach.
Sara Palermo is Panel Editor for "EC Psychology and Psychiatry" and she has bee appointed as Specialty Chief Editor for "Frontiers in Psychology - Neuropsychology" since 2019. She has also been nominated Academic Editor for IntechOpen publisher.
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 she has just been appointed as a researcher at the Department of Psychology at UNITO. Moreover, she works as a scientific consultant at the Neuroradiology Department 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".
The main topics of her research are the study of awareness of illness, metacognitive-executive deficits in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, physical and cognitive frailty in the elderly, and placebo/nocebo phenomena. Interestingly, all of them may represent appealing perspectives from which to study how neuropsychological abnormalities can be explained in terms of brain activities and with the use of neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological batteries considering a neurocognitive approach.
Sara Palermo is Panel Editor for "EC Psychology and Psychiatry" and she has bee appointed as Specialty Chief Editor for "Frontiers in Psychology - Neuropsychology" since 2019. She has also been nominated Academic Editor for IntechOpen publisher.
