Publications 2007-2024

Since completing my PhD in 2010, I have published 116 refereed journal articles, 4 referred book chapters and 1 Book. My work has been presented at 26 conferences. With 3982 citations (Google Scholar) and an average Impact Factor of 5, my journal articles are having a clear impact in the field. In terms of the refereed journal articles, I am first/last author in 71 % (83/116 of the papers. My current h-index is 39 (Google Scholar). 

In preparation

Martino, D., Jasaui, Y., Nosratmishekarlou, E., Medina, A., Vicario, C.M. et al. (In preparation). Transcranial direct current stimulation of the supplementary motor area in Tourette syndrome: preliminary findings of a randomized controlled trial.

Vicario, C.M.,  Culicetto, L., Lucifora, C., Beattie, G., Massimino, S., Makris, S., Avenanti, A.  Nitsche M.A. (In preparation) Dealing with fake news. Overlooking warning messages predicts vulnerability to misinformation and belief in conspiracy theories

Culicetto, L., Schiuntu, S., Mucciardi, M., Falzone, A.,...and Vicario, C.M. (In preparation). Increasing affective distance: Leftward prism adaptation worsens the alexithymia trait in healthy individuals.   

Ferraioli, F., .....Vicario, C. M. Psychophysiological predictors of liking and purchasing probability in the metaverse.  

Casula, A., ....Vicario, C.M. Moral predictors of antivaccination attitude in the Italian COVID-19 post pandemic era

Vicario, C.M. et al. If fear predicts ideological extremism. Evidence of altered fear conditioning in highly conservative individuals

Na Zhang, Michael A. Nitsche , Yu Miao, Zheng Xiong, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Fengxue Qi Transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex and cerebellum improves balance in elite ice hockey players

Ying Yu, Michael A. Nitsche, Xiaoping Chen, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Alessio Avenanti, Fengxue Qi Dual-Site Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over Primary Motor and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortices Improves Physical Performance in High-Level Volleyball Players With Dual Fatigue

Francesco Tomaiuolo, Daniele Mollaioli, Cristina Foti, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Antonino Germanò, Michael Petrides. Functional Organization of the Posterior Dorsolateral Frontal Region in the Human Brain: A Single Case Study

Ferraioli, F., Culicetto, L., Cecchetti, L., Falzone, A., Tomaiuolo, F., Vicario, C.M. Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Treating Disgust: A Systematic Review on Healthy and Clinical populations

Forthcoming

Giunta, A.L.C, and Vicario, C.M. (Submitted) The Impact of Sexual Orientation on Moral Reasoning: Evidence of Diminished Emphasis on Obedience, and Purity Among Non-Heterosexual Individuals

Ying Yua, Xinbi Zhanga, Michael A. Nitsche, Vicario, C.M., Fengxue Qi (Under review) Does a Single Session of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Enhance Sports Performance in Elite Athletes? A Systematic Review on Efficacy 

Lucifora, C., ......Vicario, C.M. (Under Review) Does fasting make us all equal? Preliminary evidence on the interplay between religiosity, disgust sensitivity and appetite on implicit prejudice.

Vicario, C.M. and Lucifora, C. (Under review) Heightened Interoceptive Sensitivity in Left-Leaning Politically Oriented Individuals: Evidence from Italian Voters

Nejati, V.....Vicario, C.M. et al. (under review). Report Approval for Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (RATES): Development of an Assessment Tool based on a Delphi Consensus Study.  

Vicario, C.M., Capodici, A., Gangemi, A., Falzone, A., Pennisi, A. (under review). Evidence of heightened discomfort tolerance in non-heterosexual individuals.

Vicario, C.M., Culicetto., L., Lucifora, C., Ferraioli, F., Tomaiuolo, F., Falzone, A. (under review). The power of faith. Evidence of reduced fear extinction learning in individuals who believe in God.

Tomaiuolo, F., Vicario, C.M., et al... (under review). Enhancing Precision in Subcortical Brain Tumor Removal: A Surgical Strategy proposal

Culicetto, L.,.......Vicario, C.M., et al... (under review). From real to virtual prism adaptation therapy: a systematic review on benefits and challenges of a new potential rehabilitation approach 

Ferraioli, F., Vicario, C.M. (Under review) Predicting consumers' purchase through the corticobulbar tract. A novel psychometric tool at the service of neuromarketing?

2024

Vicario, C.M., Mucciardi, M., Perconti, P., Lucifora, C., Nitsche, M.A., Avenanti, A. (In press). Academic assessment at the era of COVID-19. An archival study on the passing rate of Italian university students. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1299136

Alizadehgoradel, J., Molaei, B., Jalali, K B, Pouresmali, A, Sharifi, K., Hallajian, A.,  , Nejati, N., Glinski, B., Vicario, C.M., Nitsche, M.A. & Salehinejad, M.A. (In press). Targeting the prefrontal-supplementary motor network in obsessive-compulsive disorder with intensified electrical stimulation in two dosages: A randomized, controlled trial. Translational Psychiatry

Vicario C.M., Mucciardi, M., faraone, G., Lucifora, C., Schade, H.M., Falzone, A., Salehinejad, M.A., Craparo., G., Nitsche, M.A (In press). Individual predictors of vaccine hesitancy in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Martino G, Viola A, Vicario CM, Bellone F, Silvestro O, Squadrito G, Schwarz P, Lo Coco G, Fries W, Catalano A. (2024). Psychological impairment in inflammatory bowel diseases: the key role of coping and defense mechanisms. Res Psychother.  15;26(3).   

Campana, S., Cecchetti, L., Venturi, M., Buemi, F., Foti, C., Vicario, C.M., Carboncini, M.C., Cerasa, A. Tomaiuolo, F. (In Press). Evolution of Severe Closed Head Injury: Assessing Ventricular Volume and Behavioral Measures at 30- and 90 Days Post Injury. Journal of Clinical Medicine

2023

1. Pennisi P, Salehinejad MA, Corso AM, Merlo EM, Avenanti A, Vicario CM. (2023) Delay discounting in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Behav Brain Res.436:114101.

2. Vicario C.M., Scavone, V., Lucifora, C., Falzone, A., Pioggia, G., Gangemi, S., Craparo, G., Martino, G (In press) Evidence of abnormal scalar timing property in alexithymia. PlosOne. 18(1):e0278881

3. Culicetto, L. .....Vicario C.M. (In press) Disgust as a transdiagnostic index for mental illness. A narrative review on clinical populations. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

4. Craparo G.; La Rosa, Valentina; Commodari, Elena; Marino, Graziella;Vezzoli, Michela; Faraci, Palmira; Vicario, Carmelo Mario; Cinà Gabriella Serena;Colombi, Morena;Arcoleo, Giuseppe; Severino, Maria; Costanzo, Giulia (2023) . What Is the Role of Psychological Factors in Long COVID Syndrome? Latent Class Analysis in a Sample of Patients Recovered from COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, 1 r 494

5. Vicario C.M. et al. (2023) Combining virtual reality exposure therapy with non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and related syndromes. A perspective. In Pinna G. Translational Methods for PTSD Research – Neuromethods. Springer Nature

6. Craparo, G., ...and Vicario, C.M. (In press) The role of alexithymia, boredom, desire thinking, and subjective risk intelligence in individuals with gambling disorder: a cross-sectional study. Minerva psychiatry. 64(1):28-36

7. Simone Battaglia, Chiara Di Fazio, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Alessio Avenanti (2023) Neuropharmacological modulation of N-Methyl-D-aspartate, Noradrenaline and Endocannabinoids receptors in Fear Extinction Learning: synaptic transmission and plasticity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.  24(6), 5926 

8.  Sergi, Alessandro, Antonino Messina, Carmelo M. Vicario, Gabriella Martino (In press) A Quantum-Classical Model of Brain Dynamics. Entropy. 25(4), 592

9. Gabriella Martino, Federica Bellone, Carmelo M Vicario et al. (In press). Interrelations between clinical-psychological features and bone mineral density changes in post-menopausal women undergoing antiosteoporotic treatment: a two-year follow-up. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14:1151199. 

10. Vicario C.M., Makris, S., Laura Culicetto, Chiara Lucifora, Alessandra Falzone, Gabriella Martino, Francesca Ferraioli, Michael A. Nitsche, Alessio Avenanti, Giuseppe Craparo.  (In press) Evidence of altered fear extinction learning in individuals with high vaccine hesitancy during COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical neuropsychiatry.

11.  Ricciardi L, Spatari G, Vicario CM, Liotta M, Cazzato V, Gangemi S, Martino G. 2023. Clinical Psychology and Clinical Immunology: is there a link between Alexithymia and severe Asthma? Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. 11 (1).

12. Casula, A., Milazzo, B., Martino G., Sergi, A., Lucifora, C., Tomaiuolo, F., Quartarone, A., Nitsche, M.A.,. Vicario, C.M. (In press). Noninvasive brain stimulation for the modulation of aggressive behavior. A systematic Review. Life. 13(5):1220.

13. Coppini, C., Lucifora, C., Vicario, C.M., Gangemi, A. (In press). Is Ekman's model of emotions sufficient to explain real-life situations? A social inquiry on healthy participants. Scientific Reports, 13(1):9511.

14. Capodici, A., Pennisi, A., Rizzo, G., Falzone, A., Vicario, C.M. (In press). Evidence of interoceptive and affective alterations in Body Integrity Dysphoria. Psychopathology

15. Rizzo, G. Martino, D., Avanzino, L., Avenanti, A. and Vicario, C.M. (In press). Social cognition in hyperkinetic movement disorders: a systematic review. Social Neuroscience

16. Vicario C.M., Maugeri, N., Lucifora, C. , Prato, A., Martino, D., Rizzo, R. (In press). Evidence for a dissociation between moral reasoning and moral decision making in Tourette Syndrome. Journal of neuropsychology

2022

1. Vicario, C.M., Martino, G., Lucifora, C., Felmingham, K (2022) A preliminary investigation on neural correlates of timing alterations in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 13(1):2008151. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.2008151.

2. Vicario CM, Nitsche MA, Avenanti A. Tongue motor cortex: The back door of the reward system. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022 Oct;141:104820

3. Cazzato V, Vicario CM, Urgesi, C. (2022). 'When hunger makes everything better looking!': The effect of hunger on the aesthetic appreciation of human bodies, faces and objects.BMC Psychol. 10(1):98.

4. Anselmo, A., Lucifora, C., Rusconi, P., Martino, G., Craparo, G. Mohammad A. Salehinejad, Vicario, C.M. (2022) Can we rewire criminal mind via non-invasive brain stimulation of prefrontal cortex? Insights from social cognition studies. Current Psychology. ;1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03210-y.

5. Lucifora, C., Grasso, G., Nitsche, M.A., D'Italia, G., Sortino, M. , Salehinejad, M.A. , Falzone, A. M., Avenanti A., Vicario C.M. (2022) Enhanced fear acquisition in individuals with evening chronotype. A virtual reality fear conditioning/extinction study. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.033

6. Vicario CM, Martino G. Psychology and technology: how Virtual Reality can boost psychotherapy and neurorehabilitation AIMS Neurosci. 2022 Nov 14;9(4):454-459

7. Formica, S., Rizzo, G., Martino, G., Lucifora, C., Craparo, G., Vicario, C.M. (2022) Relationship between disgust sensitivity and irritable bowel syndrome. A preliminary investigation in healthy humans. Clinical neuropsychiatry. 19(4), pp. 230-235

8. Prato A, Maugeri N, Chiarotti F, Morcaldi L, Vicario CM, Barone R, Rizzo R. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Videoconference vs. Face-to-Face Delivery of Behavior Therapy for Youths With Tourette Syndrome in the Time of COVID-19. Front Psychiatry. 2022 May 24;13:862422

10. Giuseppe Murdaca , Francesca Paladin, Marco Casciaro, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Sebastiano Gangemi, Gabriella Martino. Neuro-inflammaging and psychopathological disorders. Biomedicines. 2133; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10092133

11. Sajjad Basharpoor, Nasim Zakibakhsh Mohammadi, Fazeleh Heidari, Anita Azarkolah, Carmelo M Vicario & Mohammad Ali Salehinejad. (In Press) Emotional working memory training improves cognitive inhibitory abilities in individuals with borderline personality trait: A randomized parallel-group trial. Journal of Affective Disorders.

12. Capodici A, Rizzo G, Vicario CM, Pennisi A. Deepening the desire for disability: A commentary on Saetta et al. (2022).Cortex. 2022 Dec;157:327-333.

13.  Vicario CM, Rafal RD, di Pellegrino G, Lucifora C, Salehinejad MA, Nitsche MA, Avenanti A. Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2022 Feb 3;17(1):151-159

14.  Caputo A, Vicario CM, Cazzato V, Martino G.Editorial: Psychological Factors as Determinants of Medical Conditions, Volume II. Front Psychol. 2022 Mar 21;13:865235.

1. Ishaq, M.,Duyen Tran, Yijia Wu, Krzysztof Nowak, Bianca J Deans, Martin Bleasel, Joycelin Tan Zhu Xin, Loh Hui Lin, Wen Ying Ng, Chin Wen Yee, Silvia Vicenzi, Cameron Randall, Cheng Yang, Ee Tan, Manideepika Pasupuleti, Avneet Kaur Grewal, Benjamin Southam, Tauseef Ahmad, Madhur D. Shastri, Vicario, C.M., Maurizio Ronci, Paul Scowen, Dinesh Kumar Chellappan, Glenn Jacobson, Alex C Bissember, Jason A Smith, Rajaraman D Eri, Juan J Canales, Miguel Iglesias, Nuri Guven, Vanni Caruso. (In press). Asperuloside enhances taste perception and prevents weight gain in high-fat fed mice. Frontiers in Endocrinology.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.615446  Impact Factor 5.555

2. Lucifora, C., Angelini, C., Meteier, Q., Vicario, C.M., Khaled, O. A. Mugellini, E.,Grasso, G.M.  Cyber-Therapy: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Practice. In: Russo D., Ahram T., Karwowski W., Di Bucchianico G., Taiar R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2021. IHSI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68017-6_19 (CONFERENCE PRECEEDINGS).

3. Markovic V., Vicario C. M., Yavari, F., Salehinejad A., Nitsche M A (2021). A systematic review on the effect of non-invasive brain stimulation methods on fear memory and extinction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.655947 Impact Factor 3.169

4. Vicario, C.M., Lucifora, C. (In press). Neuroethics: what the study of clinical models can tell about the nature of moral behavior. AIMS Neuroscience.  8, 4: 543-547. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2021029. Impact Factor 1.3

5. Lucifora, C., Martino, G., Curcuruto, A., Salehienjad, M.A., Vicario, C.M. (In press). How self-control predicts moral decision making: an exploratory study on healthy participants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(7):3840. Impact Factor 3.390

6. Craparo G....Vicario, C.M., et al. (Accept). Traumatic distress, alexithymia, dissociation, and risk of addiction during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy. Results from a cross-sectional online survey on a non-clinical adult sample. International J of Mental Health and Addiction. 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s11469-021-00569-0. Impact Factor 11.555

7. Jafari, E., Alizadehgoradel, J.,....Vicario, C.M., ..and Salehinejad, M.A. (2021) Intensified stimulation targeting lateral and medial prefrontal cortices for the treatment of social anxiety disorder: A randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, dose-comparison study. Brain Stimulation. Impact Factor 8.90

8. Prato, A., Gulisano, M., Scerbo, M., Barone, R., Vicario, C.M., Rizzo, R. (2021). Diagnostic Approach to Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS): A narrative review of literature data. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 9:746639. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.746639. Impact Factor 3.418

9. Salehinejad, M.A., Nikolin, S., Vicario, C.M., Nitsche, M.A., Loo, C.K., Brunoni, A.R. (2021). Safety and Tolerability. In: Brunoni, A.R., Nitsche, M.A., Loo, C.K. (eds) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76136-3_35

2020

1. Vicario C M (2020) Editorial on "COGNITION-ENGAGING PHYSICAL EXERCISES. A FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS". Reti, saperi e linguaggi. The Italian Journal of Cognitive Science. Impact Factor NA

2. Salehinejad MA, Majidinezhad M, Ghanavati E, Kouestanian S, Vicario CM, Nitsche MA, Nejati V.  (2020) Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quantitative parameters, quality, and circadian alignment: Implications for psychological well-being and emotional regulation. EXCLI Journal. 19:1297-1308. Impact Factor 2.837

3. Vicario C. M., Nitsche, MA., Salehienjad, MA, Avanzino, A., and Martino, G. (2020) Time processing, interoception and insula activation: a mini review on clinical disorders. Frontiers in Psychology . 11:1893.   Impact Factor 2.067

4. Rostami, R., Kazemi, R., Jabbari, A., Madani, A., Rostami, H., Taherpour, M A., Jaafari, N., Kuo, M., Vicario, C.M., Nitsche, M.A.,  Salehinejad, M.A. (2020). Efficacy and Clinical Predictors of response to rTMS treatment in pharmacoresistant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A retrospective Study. BMC Psychiatry. 372 (2020) Impact Factor 2.704

5. Vicario C M, Gulisano, M., Maugeri, N. Rizzo, R (2020) Delay reward discounting in adolescents with Tourette's Syndrome. Movement Disorders. May 11. doi: 10.1002/mds.28096. Impact Factor 8.67

6. Vicario, C. M., Salehinejad M A, Avenanti A, Nitsche M A, (2020) Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Anxiety Disorders. In book: Non Invasive Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Publisher: Springer Nature

7. Vicario C. M., Rafal R D, Di Pellegrino G, Lucifora C, Salehinejad M A, Nitsche M A, Avenanti A (In press). Moral indignation for ethical violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex. SCAN. Impact Factor 3.66

8. Salehinejad M A,....Vicario C. M., et al. (In press) tDCS in ADHD: a systematic review of efficacy, safety, and protocol induced electrical stimulation. Neuroscience Bulletin. Impact Factor 4.26

10.  Martino, G., Catalano; A., Agostino, A.R., ; Bellone, F., Morabito, N., Lasco, C G.; Vicario, C.M., Schwarz, P., Feldt-Rasmussen, U. (2020) Quality of Life and Psychological Functioning in Postmenopausal Women Assuming Aromatase Inhibitors for Early Breast Cancer. PlosOne. 15(3): e0230681. Impact Factor 2.778

2019

1. Vicario C. M. (2019) Neuroestetica: una riflessione sulle basi neurobiologiche della bruttezza. Reti, Saperi e Linguaggi. Italian Journal of Cognitive Science. pp. 347-350, DOI: 10.12832/96463

2.  Martino, G., Sardella, A., Bellone, F., Lasco, C., Langher, V., Cazzato, V., Penna, A., Vicario, C.  M., Morabito, N., Catalano, A. (In press) Executive functions and bone health: a focus on cognitive impulsivity and bone mineral density. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. Impact Factor 0.887

3. Martino,G., Catalano, A., Bellone, F., Russo, G.T., Vicario, C. M., et al. (2019) As Time Goes by: Anxiety Negatively Affects the Perceived Quality of Life in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes of Long Duration. Frontiers in Psychology. Impact Factor 2.129

4. Vicario C. M., Caruso, V., Craparo G., Felmingham K (2019). Time is overestimated in obesity: a cohort study. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105319842937 Impact Factor 2.256

5. Salehinejad, M. A., Nitsche M. A. Vicario C. M., Wischnewski, M. (2019). Transcranial direct current stimulation for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analysis of neuropsychological deficits. PlosOne; 14(4): e0215095. Impact Factor 2.766

7. Maezawa, H., Vicario, C.M., Kuo, M., Hirata, M., Mima, T. Nitsche, M A. (In press). Effects of bilateral anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the tongue primary motor cortex on cortical excitability of the tongue and tongue motor functions. Brain Stimulation. Impact Factor 6.519

8. Martino, G., Lagher V, Cazzato, V., Vicario, C.M. (In press). Editorial: Psychological factors as determinants of medical conditions. Frontiers in Psychology. Impact Factor 2.129

2018

1. Cazzato, V., Makris, S., Flavell, J.C., Vicario, C.M. Group membership and racial bias modulate the temporal estimation of in-group/out-group body movements. Exp Brain Res. 2018 Jun 18. doi: 10.1007/s00221-018-5313-4. Impact Factor 1.878

3. Vicario, C.M., Felmingham, K. (2018). Slower Time estimation in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Scientific Reports. ;8(1):392. Impact Factor 4.011

4. Vicario, C.M., Felmingham, K. (2018). The Perception of Time Is Underestimated in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9, 121. Impact Factor 3.161

5. Vicario, C.M. Martino, D. (2018). Social communication in Tourette syndrome: a glimpse at the contribution of the insula and the prefrontal cortex. Brain. Impact Factor 11.814

6. Vicario, C.M., Rogers, R., Kuran, K.A., Rafal, R. D. (2018). The effect of hunger and satiety in the judgment of ethical violations. Brain and Cognition. Impact Factor 2.619

2017

1· Vicario, C.M. and Rafal, R. D. (2017). Relationship between body mass index and moral disapproval rating for ethical violations. Personality and Individual differences. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.027. Impact Factor 1.997

2. Vicario CM, Sommer W, Kuran KA, Rafal RD. Salivary secretion and disgust: A pilot study. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2017 Jul;178:18-24. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.05.007. Impact Factor 1.595

3. Vicario CM, Rafal RD, Martino D, Avenanti A. Core, social and moral disgust are bounded: A review on behavioral and neural bases of repugnance in clinical disorders. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017 Sep;80:185-200. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.008. Impact Factor 8.03

4. Vicario CM, Nitsche MA, Felmingham K. Forgetting fear associations through tES: which memory process might be critical? Transl Psychiatry. 2017 Feb 28;7(2):e1046. doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.26. Impact Factor 5.182

5. Rivera-Urbina GN, Nitsche MA, Vicario CM, Molero-Chamizo A. Applications of transcranial direct current stimulation in children and pediatrics. Rev Neurosci. 2017 Feb 1;28(2):173-184. doi: 10.1515/revneuro-2016-0045. Review. Impact Factor 2.157

6 Vicario CM, Rafal RD, Borgomaneri S, Paracampo R, Kritikos A, Avenanti A. Pictures of disgusting foods and disgusted facial expressions suppress the tongue motor cortex. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2017 Feb 1;12(2):352-362. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw129. Impact Factor 3.7

2016

1. Avanzino L, Pelosin E, Vicario CM, Lagravinese G, Abbruzzese G, Martino D. Time Processing and Motor Control in Movement Disorders. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Dec 12;10:631. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00631. eCollection 2016. Review. Impact Factor 2.87

2. Baggio G, Vicario CM. Language processing is not a race against time. Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e64. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15000692. Impact Factor 15.07

4. Craparo G, Gori A, Dell'Aera S, Costanzo G, Fasciano S, Tomasello A, Vicario CM. Impaired emotion recognition is linked to alexithymia in heroin addicts. PeerJ. 2016 Apr 5;4:e1864. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1864. eCollection 2016. Impact Factor 2.2

5. Vicario CM. Emotional Appraisal of Moral Dilemmas: What Neuroimaging Can Tell about the Disgust-Morality Link. J Neurosci. 2016 Jan 13;36(2):263-4. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3483-15.2016. Impact Factor 5.97

2015 

1. Vicario CM, Gulisano M, Martino D, Rizzo R. Timing recalibration in childhood Tourette syndrome associated with persistent pimozide treatment. J Neuropsychol. 2016 Sep;10(2):211-22. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12064. Epub 2015 Feb 23. Impact Factor 3.78

2. Vicario CM. Altered pain threshold sensitivity and frontoparietal-cingulate network in anorexia nervosa: the role of disgust sensitivity. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2015 Sep;40(5):E33.  Impact Factor 5.36

3. Martino D, Lagravinese G, Pelosin E, Chaudhuri RK, Vicario CM, Abbruzzese G, Avanzino L. Temporal processing of perceived body movement in cervical dystonia. Mov Disord. 2015 Jun;30(7):1005-7. doi: 10.1002/mds.26225. Impact Factor 8.32

4. Vicario CM, Rafal RD, Avenanti A. Counterfactual thinking affects the excitability of the motor cortex. Cortex. 2015 Apr;65:139-48. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.017. Impact Factor 4.95

2014

1. Vicario CM. Speech prosody, reward, and the corticobulbar system: an integrative perspective. Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Dec;37(6):573-4; discussion 577-604. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13004214. Impact Factor 15.07

2· Vicario, C.M., Sgubin, G., Newman, A. (2014). Random movements generation in Western and Eastern cultures. Sage Open. DOI: 10.1177/2158244014550282 Impact Factor (forthcoming)

3. Komeilipoor N, Vicario CM, Daffertshofer A, Cesari P. Talking hands: tongue motor excitability during observation of hand gestures associated with words. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Sep 30;8:767. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00767. eCollection 2014. Impact Factor 2.87

4. Avenanti A, Vicario CM, Borgomaneri S. Social dimensions of pain. Comment on "Facing the experience of pain: a neuropsychological perspective" by Fabbro and Crescentini. Phys Life Rev. 2014 Sep;11(3):558-61. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.06.001. Epub 2014 Jun 5.  Impact Factor 13.78

5. Vicario CM. Aggression traits in youth psychopathy: the key role of serotonin. Front Psychiatry. 2014 Mar 17;5:25. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00025. eCollection 2014. Impact Factor 3.53

6. Vicario CM. Aberrant disgust response and immune reactivity in cocaine-dependent men might uncover deranged serotoninergic activity. Front Mol Neurosci. 2014 Feb 11;7:7. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00007. eCollection 2014. Impact Factor 3.90

7. Vicario CM, Komeilipoor N, Cesari P, Rafal RD, Nitsche MA. Enhanced corticobulbar excitability in chronic smokers during visual exposure to cigarette smoking cues. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2014 Jul;39(4):232-8. Impact Factor 5.36

8. Vicario CM, Rumiati RI. Left-right compatibility in the processing of trading verbs. Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Jan 28;8:16. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00016.  Impact Factor 3.13

9. Vicario CM, Gulisano M, Martino D, Rizzo R. The perception of time in childhood migraine. Cephalalgia. 2014 Jun;34(7):548-53. doi: 10.1177/0333102413517774. Impact Factor  3.88

2013

1. Vicario CM, Newman A. Emotions affect the recognition of hand gestures. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Dec 26;7:906. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00906. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 2.87

2. Vicario CM, Nitsche MA. Non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of brain diseases in childhood and adolescence: state of the art, current limits and future challenges. Front Syst Neurosci. 2013 Nov 25;7:94. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00094. Review. Impact Factor 3.928

3. Vicario CM. Uncovering the neurochemistry of reward and aversiveness. Front Mol Neurosci. 2013 Nov 19;6:41. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2013.00041. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 3.9

4. Vicario CM. Altered insula response to sweet taste processing in recovered anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a matter of disgust sensitivity? Am J Psychiatry. 2013 Dec;170(12):1497. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13060748.  Impact Factor 13.39

5. Vicario CM. On a generalized magnitude system in the brain: an integrative perspective. Front Psychol. 2013 Nov 12;4:829. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00829. eCollection 2013.  Impact Factor 2.08

6. Vicario CM. Cognitively controlled timing and executive functions develop in parallel? A glimpse on childhood research. Front Behav Neurosci. 2013 Oct 10;7:146. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00146. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 3.13

7. Vicario CM. FOXP2 gene and language development: the molecular substrate of the gestural-origin theory of speech? Front Behav Neurosci. 2013 Aug 5;7:99. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00099. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 3.13

8. Vicario CM, Candidi M, Aglioti SM. Cortico-spinal embodiment of newly acquired, action-related semantic associations. Brain Stimul. 2013 Nov;6(6):952-8. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.05.010. Epub 2013 Jun 26. Impact Factor 6.12

9. Vicario CM. Inborn mechanisms of food preference and avoidance: the role of polymorphisms in neuromodulatory systems. Front Mol Neurosci. 2013 Jul 5;6:16. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2013.00016. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 3.90 

10. Vicario CM. Landmark test and decision making: a reply to a reply. Perception. 2013;42(3):356-7. No abstract available. Impact Factor 1.37

11. Vicario CM. Time reproduction and numerosity interaction in the parietal cortex: some missing links. Front Neurol. 2013 May 6;4:45. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00045. eCollection 2013.  Impact Factor 3.50

12. Vicario CM, Martino D, Koch G. Temporal accuracy and variability in the left and right posterior parietal cortex. Neuroscience. 2013 Aug 15;245:121-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.04.041.  Impact Factor 3.38

13. Vicario CM, Nitsche MA. Transcranial direct current stimulation: a remediation tool for the treatment of childhood congenital dyslexia? Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Apr 22;7:139. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00139. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 2.87

14. Vicario CM, Yates MJ, Nicholls ME. Shared deficits in space, time, and quantity processing in childhood genetic disorders. Front Psychol. 2013 Feb 7;4:43. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00043. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 2.08

15. Vicario CM, Kritikos A, Avenanti A, Rafal R. Reward and punishment: investigating cortico-bulbar excitability to disclose the value of goods. Front Psychol. 2013 Feb 5;4:39. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00039. eCollection 2013. Impact Factor 2.08

16. Avanzino L, Martino D, Martino I, Pelosin E, Vicario CM, Bove M, Defazio G, Abbruzzese G. Temporal expectation in focal hand dystonia. Brain. 2013 Feb;136(Pt 2):444-54. doi: 10.1093/brain/aws328. Epub 2013 Jan 29. Impact Factor 10.29

17. Vicario CM. Morality and disgust: insights from obsessive compulsive disorder. Front Psychiatry. 2013 Jan 3;3:113. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00113. Impact Factor 3.53

2012

1. Vicario CM, Ticini LF. Measuring your dependence: deranged corticobulbar excitability may uncover addiction disorders. Front Psychiatry. 2012 Dec 12;3:107. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00107. eCollection 2012.  Impact Factor 2.85

2. Vicario CM, Rappo G, Pepi A, Pavan A, Martino D. Temporal abnormalities in children with developmental dyscalculia. Dev Neuropsychol. 2012;37(7):636-52. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2012.702827. Impact Factor 2.33

3. Vicario CM. Perceiving numbers affects the internal random movements generator. ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:347068. doi: 10.1100/2012/347068. Epub 2012 Apr 26. Impact Factor 1.2

4. Vicario CM, Rumiati RI. tDCS of the primary motor cortex improves the detection of semantic dissonance. Neurosci Lett. 2012 Jun 19;518(2):133-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.04.070. Epub 2012 May 8. Impact Factor 2.15

5. Vicario CM, Crescentini C. Punishing food: what brain activity can tell us about the representation of food in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Apr 15;71(8):e31-2; author reply e33. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.10.036. Epub 2011 Dec 9. Impact Factor 11.98

2011

1. Vicario CM, Bonní S, Koch G. Left hand dominance affects supra-second time processing. Front Integr Neurosci. 2011 Oct 24;5:65. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00065. eCollection 2011. Impact Factor 2.810

2. Vicario CM, Martino D, Pavone EF, Fuggetta G. Lateral head turning affects temporal memory. Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Aug;113(1):3-10. Impact Factor 0.70

3. Vicario CM, Candidi M. Somatosensory intra-oral activity reveals functional abnormalities in the insula of anorexia nervosa suffers. Med Hypotheses. 2011 Oct;77(4):698-9. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.07.059. Epub 2011 Aug 16.  Impact Factor 1.12

4. Vicario CM. Perceiving numbers affects the subjective temporal midpoint. Perception. 2011; 40(1):23-9. Impact Factor 1.32

2010

1. Vicario CM, Martino D. The neurophysiology of magnitude: One example of extraction analogies. Cogn Neurosci. 2010 Jun;1(2):144-5. doi: 10.1080/17588921003763969. Impact Factor 3.41

2. Candidi M, Vicario CM, Abreu AM, Aglioti SM. Competing mechanisms for mapping action-related categorical knowledge and observed actions. Cereb Cortex. 2010 Dec;20(12):2832-41. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq033. Epub 2010 Mar 17. Impact Factor 6.30

2009

1. Oliveri M, Bonnì S, Turriziani P, Koch G, Lo Gerfo E, Torriero S, Vicario CM, Petrosini L, Caltagirone C. Motor and linguistic linking of space and time in the cerebellum. PLoS One. 2009 Nov 20;4(11):e7933. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007933. Impact Factor 3.23

2. Vicario CM, Rappo G, Pepi AM, Oliveri M. Timing flickers across sensory modalities. Perception. 2009;38(8):1144-51. Impact Factor 1.34

2008

1. Oliveri M, Vicario CM, Salerno S, Koch G, Turriziani P, Mangano R, Chillemi G, Caltagirone C. Perceiving numbers alters time perception. Neurosci Lett. 2008 Jun 27;438(3):308-11. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.051. Epub 2008 Apr 20. Impact Factor  2.15

2. Vicario CM, Pecoraro P, Turriziani P, Koch G, Caltagirone C, Oliveri M. Relativistic compression and expansion of experiential time in the left and right space. PLoS One. 2008 Mar 5;3(3):e1716. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001716. Impact Factor  3.23

2007

1. Vicario CM, Caltagirone C, Oliveri M. Optokinetic stimulation affects temporal estimation in healthy humans. Brain Cogn. 2007 Jun;64(1):68-73. Epub 2007 Mar 29. Impact Factor 2.57

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