Paula Celeste Salamone

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN); Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

Dr. Paula C. Salamone is a Latin American clinical psychologist and neuroscientist based in Sweden. Her research investigates how brain-body communication shapes emotional and social functioning, with a particular focus on interoception and affective touch. Using multimodal approaches that combine behavioral tasks, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and pharmacological models, her work has provided new insights into how bodily signals are integrated across cortical, spinal, and peripheral pathways. By bridging basic neuroscience with clinical populations, her research aims to identify mechanistic targets and interventions to improve emotional regulation and socio-affective processing.

Rita Pasion

HEI-LAB (Brain.Edge – Clinical and Translational Neurosciences), Lusófona University – Porto Campus

Rita Pasion’s research is inspired by a paradigm shift toward the view that it is unlikely a single biomarker will be identified for each mental disorder. Following emerging frameworks such as HiTOP and RDoC, her work seeks to identify multimodal neurobiological constructs – integrating EEG-based measures of brain activity – that operate as transdiagnostic mechanisms explaining vulnerability to multiple forms of psychopathology.

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