Assoz. Prof. Giorgia Silani, Privatdoz. PhD
T: +43-1-4277-47223
Sommersemester 2024
200090 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Theory and practice in clinical and social neuroscience
540006 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Health: mechanisms, prevention, and intervention
Wintersemester 2023
200151 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Theory and practice in clinical and social neuroscience
200166 SE Anwendungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Clinical Neuropsychology: intervention
540006 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Health: mechanisms, prevention, and intervention
Sommersemester 2023
200090 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Theory and practice in clinical and social neuroscience
200103 SE Anwendungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Clinical Neuropsychology: Assessment
540002 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Health: mechanisms, prevention, and intervention




Silani, G., & Broadbeck, C. (2014). Gender and Social Emotions: A Review of the Neuroscientific Literature on Empathy and its Link to Psychopathy, Antisocial Behavior and Alexithymia. in I. Latu, M. Schmid Mast , & S. Kaiser (Hrsg.), Gender and Emotion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective (S. 69-92). [3] Peter Lang.

Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2014). Insights into collective emotions from the social neuroscience of empathy. in C. von Scheve , & M. Salmella (Hrsg.), Collective Emotions: perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology (S. 63-77). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659180.003.0005




Silani, G., Zucconi, A., & Lamm, C. (2013). Carl Rogers meets the neurosciences: insights from social neuroscience for client-centered therapy. in J. H. D. Cornelius-White, R. Motschnig-Pitrik, & M. Lux (Hrsg.), Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory (S. 63-78). Springer.



Zucconi, A., & Silani, G. (2011). L’ecologia relazionale in psicoterapia: insight dalle neuroscienze per la psicoterapia centrata sul cliente di Carl Rogers. in P. Petrini , & A. Zucconi (Hrsg.), Psicoterapie e Neuroscienze Alpes Italia.



Singer, T., Snozzi, R., Bird, G., Petrovic, P., Silani, G., Heinrichs, M., & Dolan, R. J. (2008). Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain. Emotion, 8(6), 781-791. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014195


Silani, G., Bird, G., Brindley, R., Singer, T., Frith, C., & Frith, U. (2008). Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 3(2), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910701577020


Silani, G., Frith, U., Demonet, J. F., Fazio, F., Perani, D., Price, C., Frith, C. D., & Paulesu, E. (2005). Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: A voxel based morphometry study. Brain: a journal of neurology, 128(10), 2453-2461. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh579

The impact of stress and opioid administration on liking and wanting of affective touch.

Claudia Massaccesi (Vortragende*r) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Age-related differences in automatic imitation inhibition: an fMRI study.

Ekaterina Pronizius (Vortragende*r), Federica Riva (Autor*in), Melanie Lenger (Autor*in), Martin Kronbichler (Autor*in), Giorgia Silani (Autor*in) & Claus Lamm (Autor*in)

21 Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition.

Claudia Massaccesi (Vortragende*r), Sebastian Korb (Autor*in), Matthaeus Willeit (Autor*in), Boris B. Quednow (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Diurnal Dynamics of Stress and Mood in the Risk Groups during Covid-19 Lockdown - A Large Binational Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Anja Feneberg (Autor*in), Paul Forbes (Autor*in), Giulio Piperno (Autor*in), Ekaterina Pronizius (Vortragende*r), Nadine Skoluda (Autor*in), Ana Stijovic (Autor*in), Claus Lamm (Autor*in), Urs Markus Nater (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

20 Sep. 202122 Sep. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Enhanced motivation and hedonic reactions to social touch under stress following morphine administration

Claudia Massaccesi (Vortragende*r), Matthaeus Willeit (Autor*in), Boris B. Quednow (Autor*in), Urs Markus Nater (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

Juni 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

März 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding empathy from a clinical perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Okt. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Vortragende*r)

März 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: An rTMS/fMRI study.

Henryk Bukowski (Vortragende*r), Martin Tik (Vortragende*r), Giorgia Silani (Vortragende*r), Christian Ruff (Vortragende*r), Christian Windischberger (Vortragende*r) & Claus Lamm (Vortragende*r)

21 Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The influence of age on emotional egocentrism.

Federica Riva (Vortragende*r), Melanie Tschernegg (Autor*in), Martin Kronbichler (Autor*in), Claus Lamm (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

20 Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science




Neurochemical modulation of facial mimicry

Sebastian Korb (Vortragende*r), Claudia Massaccesi (Autor*in), Matthaeus Willeit (Autor*in), Raffaella Rumiati (Autor*in), Christoph Eisenegger (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Vortragende*r)

Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Emotional egocentricity bias during social pain in Autism-Spectrum-Disorder (ASD): Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Helena Hartmann (Invited speaker), Hannah Hitz (Autor*in), Philipp Stepnicka (Autor*in), Lukas Lengersdorff (Autor*in) & Giorgia Silani (Autor*in)

7 Okt. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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