Rossella Oliva
PhD candidate
Visiting Guest Researcher
Stephanstraße 1A
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Rossella graduated at the University of Padua in 2013 with a Master Degree in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She is currently attending a 3‑year PhD program in Psychology at the University of Padua and she joined the O’Brain Lab in September 2017 as guest researcher. Her project’s aim is to investigate the neural correlates of impulsivity in binge eating. In order to achieve this goal, she uses behavioural paradigms as well as functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
2017— | visiting PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Decision-making in obesity: neurobiology, behavior and plasticity group (Annete Horstmann, PhD), Leipzig, Germany |
2015— | PhD student, Neuroscience of Movement (NeMo) Laboratory, Department of General Psychology (Chiara Begliomini, PhD), University of Padua, Italy |
2012 | Master Practitioner, National Center for Eating Disorders (NcfED), London, UK |
2011–2013 | Master’s Degree, Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, University of Padua, Italy |
2008–2011 | Bachelor’s Degree, Psychobiology, University of Padua, Italy |
Publications
Aug 2015. Euro Global Summit & Medicare Expo on Weight Loss 2015. Frankfurt, Germany. Binge Eating Disorder and Food Addiction
Nov 2013. Symposium on Perception and Cognition. University of Trieste, Italy Metacognition and Brain Morphometry in Recovered Anorexia Nervosa individuals: Preliminary Results from a Voxel Based Morphometry Study. Oliva R., Baiano M., Salvo P., Cereser L., Castiello U., Stramare R., Miotto D., Begliomini C.
July 2014. VII SIO (Italian Society of Obesity) National Congress. University of Milan, Italy YALE FOOD ADDICTION SCALE (YF&AS.A.IT): a measure to assess Food Addiction on a clinical sample of adults with Eating Disorders and Obesity. Tarrini G., Oliva R., Oliva L., Zanetti C., Melchionda N.
Oct 2014. ECNP Congress of Applied and Translational Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany Metacognition in individuals with a lifetime history of anorexia nervosa: a voxel based morphometry study. Oliva R., Baiano M., Salvo P., Cereser L., Castiello U., Stramare R., Miotto D., Begliomini C.
Feb 2017. Cognitive Science Arena. Brixen, Italy Metacognition in individuals with a lifetime history of anorexia nervosa: a voxel based morphometry study. Oliva R., Baiano M., Salvo P., Cereser L., Castiello U., Stramare R., Miotto D., Begliomini C.