Selected publications:
Di Bari, A., Demo, G., Patron, E. (2025) Unraveling the Relationship between Anxiety, Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction, and Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review. Clin Exp Rheumatol

Maffei, A., Scarpa, E., Patron, E., Sessa, P (2025) Social anxiety influences the stress-buffering potential of social presence: Evidence from cardiovascular and affective reactivity under stress. PONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325303

Ruggiero V., Dell’Acqua C., Cremonese E., Giraldo, M., Patron, E. (2025) Under the Surface:Low Cardiac Vagal Tone and Poor Interoception in Young Adults with Subclinical Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 375, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.01.057

Zanatta, E., Patron, E., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Pelizzaro, F., Russo, F.P., Gambato, M., Germani, G., Ferrarese, A., Zanetto, A., Battermann, F., Buccheri, F., Cavalli, C., Schiavo, R., Ghisi, M., Pasquato, S., Feltracco, P., Cillo, U., Burra *, P., Senzolo, M. (2024) Alcoholic aetiology, severity of liver disease, and post-transplant adherence are correlated with worse Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) in liver transplant candidates. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(13), 3807. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13133807

Baldini, A., Patron, E., Gentili, C., Scilingo, E. P., & Greco, A. (2024). Novel VR-based Biofeedback systems: a comparison between heart rate variability-and electrodermal activity-driven approaches. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 15(3), 1580-1589. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2024.3352424

Mura, F., Patron, E., Benvenuti, S. M., Gentili, C., Ponchia, A., Del Piccolo, F., & Palomba, D. The moderating role of depressive symptoms in the association between heart rate variability and cognitive performance in cardiac patients. (2023) Journal of Affective Disorders. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.022

Patron, E., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Ponchia, A., Del Piccolo, F., Gentili, C., Palomba, D. The impact of COVID-19-related quarantine on psychological outcomes in patients after cardiac intervention: a multicenter longitudinal study (2022) Translational Psychiatry, 12 (1), art. no. 235. DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-01984-0

Patron, E., Calcagnì, A., Thayer, J.F., Scrimin, S. The longitudinal negative impact of early stressful events on emotional and physical well-being: The buffering role of cardiac vagal development (2021) Developmental Psychobiology, 63 (5), pp. 1146-1155. DOI: 10.1002/dev.22066

Patron, E., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Ponchia, A., Gentili, C., Bianconi, S., Palomba, D. Depression anticipates patients at risk of poor exercise stress test performance after percutaneous coronary angioplasty: A short-term longitudinal study (2020) General Hospital Psychiatry, 67, pp. 10-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.08.009

Mennella, R., Patron, E., Palomba, D. Frontal alpha asymmetry neurofeedback for the reduction of negative affect and anxiety. (2017) Behaviour Research and Therapy, 92, pp. 32-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.02.002