Nicola Sambuco

Nicola Sambuco,

CO AST SCTST

Department: Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Business Phone: 329 877 4673
Business Email: nsambuco@ufl.edu

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
Areas of Interest
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Publications

2023
Dimensional distress and orbitofrontal thickness in anxiety patients.
Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging. 335 [DOI] 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111708. [PMID] 37717542.
2023
Effects of COVID-19 stress, proximity, and adverse childhood experiences on healthcare workers’ mental health.
Frontiers in psychology. 14 [DOI] 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1228515. [PMID] 37727750.
2023
Electrophysiological normative responses to emotional, neutral, and cigarette-related images.
Psychophysiology. 60(3) [DOI] 10.1111/psyp.14196. [PMID] 36316228.
2023
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma.
Biological psychology. 177 [DOI] 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108501. [PMID] 36646300.
2023
Imagery, emotion, and bioinformational theory: From body to brain.
Biological psychology. [DOI] 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108669. [PMID] 37648076.
2023
Resilient, but for how long? The relationships between temperament, burnout, and mental health in healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Frontiers in psychiatry. 14 [DOI] 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1163579. [PMID] 37484670.
2022
Emotional Memory and Amygdala Activation.
Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience. 16 [DOI] 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.896285. [PMID] 35769628.
2022
fMRI replicability during emotional scene viewing: Functional regions and sample size.
Psychophysiology. 59(6) [DOI] 10.1111/psyp.14000. [PMID] 35001394.
2022
Narrative imagery: Emotional modulation in the default mode network.
Neuropsychologia. 164 [DOI] 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108087. [PMID] 34785150.
2022
Neural correlates of repeated retrieval of emotional autobiographical events.
Neuropsychologia. 169 [DOI] 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108203. [PMID] 35248583.
2022
Predictors of professional burnout and fulfilment in a longitudinal analysis on nurses and healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of clinical nursing. [DOI] 10.1111/jocn.16463. [PMID] 35949164.
2022
Vulnerable Dispositional Traits and Chronic Pain: Predisposing but not Predetermining.
The journal of pain. 23(4):693-705 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.11.007. [PMID] 34856411.
2021
Morally Distressing Experiences, Moral Injury, and Burnout in Florida Healthcare Providers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
International journal of environmental research and public health. 18(23) [DOI] 10.3390/ijerph182312319. [PMID] 34886045.
2021
Sex differences in the aging brain? A voxel-based morphometry analysis of the hippocampus and the amygdala.
Neuroreport. 32(16):1320-1324 [DOI] 10.1097/WNR.0000000000001728. [PMID] 34554939.
2021
Trauma-related dysfunction in the fronto-striatal reward circuit.
Journal of affective disorders. 287:359-366 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jad.2021.03.043. [PMID] 33827011.
2020
Assessing the role of the amygdala in fear of pain: Neural activation under threat of shock.
Journal of affective disorders. 276:1142-1148 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.110. [PMID] 32791350.
2020
Aversive perception in a threat context: Separate and independent neural activation.
Biological psychology. 154 [DOI] 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107926. [PMID] 32621851.
2020
Common circuit or paradigm shift? The functional brain in emotional scene perception and emotional imagery.
Psychophysiology. 57(4) [DOI] 10.1111/psyp.13522. [PMID] 32011742.
2020
Transdiagnostic trauma severity in anxiety and mood disorders: Functional brain activity during emotional scene processing.
Psychophysiology. 57(1) [DOI] 10.1111/psyp.13349. [PMID] 30861143.
2019
Interactions between reward motivation and emotional processing.
Progress in brain research. 247:1-21 [DOI] 10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.03.023. [PMID] 31196430.
2018
Attentional capture by simultaneous pleasant and unpleasant emotional distractors.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.). 18(8):1189-1194 [DOI] 10.1037/emo0000401. [PMID] 29494204.

Grants

Jul 2019 ACTIVE
OoR Matching Support for CTSI
Role: Project Manager
Funding: UF DIV OF SPONSORED RES MATCHING FUNDS

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
329 877 4673
Emails:
Business:
nsambuco@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
Viale Pichat 5
Bologna FL 40127
Business Street:
Viale Pichat 5
Bologna FL 40127