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  1. Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain–body response to emotional arousal

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  2. Uncovering brain–heart information through advanced signal and image processing

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  3. Combining electroencephalographic activity and instantaneous heart rate for assessing brain–heart dynamics during visual emotional elicitation in healthy subjects

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  4. The heart side of brain neuromodulation

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Simone Rossi, Dr Gaetano Valenza

  5. Assessment of spontaneous cardiovascular oscillations in Parkinson's disease

    Article • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  6. cvxEDA: a Convex Optimization Approach to Electrodermal Activity Processing

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  7. Relationship between cardiac vagal activity and mood congruent memory bias in major depression

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  8. Predicting Mood Changes in Bipolar Disorder through Heartbeat Nonlinear Dynamics

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  9. A Novel Algorithm for Movement Artifact Removal in ECG Signals Acquired from Wearable Systems Applied to Horses

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2015, PLOS

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  10. Recognizing Emotions Induced by Affective Sounds through Heart Rate Variability

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  11. Brain dynamics during emotion elicitation in healthy subjects: An EEG study

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  12. Predicting mood changes in bipolar disorder through heartbeat nonlinear dynamics: A preliminary study

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  13. Instantaneous bispectral analysis of heartbeat dynamics for the assessment of major depression

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  14. Changes in instantaneous complex dynamics during exercise in Chronic Mountain Sickness

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  15. Lower instantaneous entropy of heartbeat dynamics during seizures in untreated temporal lobe epilepsy

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  16. Electroencephalographic spectral correlates of caress-like affective haptic stimuli

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  17. On the tridimensional estimation of the gaze point by a stereoscopic wearable eye tracker

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  18. Arousal recognition system based on heartbeat dynamics during auditory elicitation

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  19. Electrodermal activity analysis during affective haptic elicitation

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  20. Removing movement artifacts from equine ECG recordings acquired with textile electrodes

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  21. Instantaneous transfer entropy for the study of cardio-respiratory dynamics

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  22. Gender-specific velocity recognition of caress-like stimuli through nonlinear analysis of Heart Rate Variability

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  23. How the Autonomic Nervous System and Driving Style Change With Incremental Stressing Conditions During Simulated Driving

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza, Francesco Bucchi

  24. Characterizing psychological dimensions in non-pathological subjects through autonomic nervous system dynamics

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, March 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  25. Nonlinear digital signal processing in mental health: characterization of major depression using instantaneous entropy measures of heartbeat dynamics

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, March 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  26. Complexity Index From a Personalized Wearable Monitoring System for Assessing Remission in Mental Health

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  27. Characterization of Depressive States in Bipolar Patients Using Wearable Textile Technology and Instantaneous Heart Rate Variability Assessment

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  28. Autonomic effects of cognitive reappraisal and acceptance in social anxiety: Evidence for common and distinct pathways for parasympathetic reactivity

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  29. Instantaneous monitoring of heart beat dynamics during anesthesia and sedation

    Article • Journal of Computational Surgery, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  30. Electrodermal Activity in Bipolar Patients during Affective Elicitation

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  31. Wearable Monitoring for Mood Recognition in Bipolar Disorder Based on History-Dependent Long-Term Heart Rate Variability Analysis

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  32. Estimation of Instantaneous Complex Dynamics through Lyapunov Exponents: A Study on Heartbeat Dynamics

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2014, PLOS

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  33. Tracking instantaneous entropy in heartbeat dynamics through inhomogeneous point-process nonlinear models

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  34. Assessment of gait nonlinear dynamics by inhomogeneous point-process models

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  35. Temporal trends of neuro-autonomic complexity during severe episodes of bipolar disorders

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  36. Electrodermal activity processing: A convex optimization approach

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  37. Maximal-radius multiscale entropy of cardiovascular variability: A promising biomarker of pathological mood states in bipolar disorders

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  38. Decoding underlying brain activities in time and frequency domains through complex independent component analysis of EEG signals

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  39. Revealing Real-Time Emotional Responses: a Personalized Assessment based on Heartbeat Dynamics

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  40. Inhomogeneous point-process entropy: An instantaneous measure of complexity in discrete systems

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  41. Assessing instantaneous QT variability dynamics within a point-process nonlinear framework

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  42. Defining an instantaneous complexity measure for heartbeat dynamics: The inhomogeneous point-process entropy

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  43. Complexity modulation in heart rate variability during pathological mental states of bipolar disorders

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  44. A pattern recognition approach based on electrodermal response for pathological mood identification in bipolar disorders

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  45. Advanced Technology Meets Mental Health: How smartphones, textile electronics, and signal processing can serve mental health monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment.

    Article • IEEE Pulse, May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  46. Measuring Complexity of Heart Rate Variability in Naïve Yoga Practitioners with Insomnia and PTSD

    Article • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, May 2014, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  47. Characterization of behavioral activation in non-pathological subjects through Heart Rate Variability monovariate and multivariate multiscale entropy analysis

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  48. Autonomic Nervous System Dynamics for Mood and Emotional-State Recognition

    Article • January 2014

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  49. A nonlinear heartbeat dynamics model approach for personalized emotion recognition

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  50. Instantaneous nonlinear assessment of complex cardiovascular dynamics by laguerre-volterra point process models

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  51. Point-Process Nonlinear Models With Laguerre and Volterra Expansions: Instantaneous Assessment of Heartbeat Dynamics

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  52. Improving emotion recognition systems by embedding cardiorespiratory coupling

    Article • Physiological Measurement, March 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  53. Mood recognition in bipolar patients through the PSYCHE platform: Preliminary evaluations and perspectives

    Article • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  54. Eye gaze patterns in emotional pictures

    Article • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  55. A novel EDA glove based on textile-integrated electrodes for affective computing

    Article • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  56. Dominant Lyapunov exponent and approximate entropy in heart rate variability during emotional visual elicitation

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroengineering, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  57. Gait and Anthropometric Profile Biometrics: A Step Forward

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  58. Daytime naps improve motor imagery learning

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  59. Eye tracking and pupil size variation as response to affective stimuli: a preliminary study

    Article • January 2011, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  60. Motor imagery effectiveness for mirror reversed movements

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gaetano Valenza

  61. An Artificial Neural Network approach for Haptic Discrimination in Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Gaetano Valenza