Paolo Meneguzzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5224307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Meneguzzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Meneguzzo |
| SIGNATURE | MENEGUZZO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3323-6071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Body-Related Distress, Eating-Risk Indicators, and Minority Stress Correlates in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults: A Network Analysis
BACKGROUND: Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals experience elevated body-related distress and eating-related symptoms, often in the context of minority stress and variable social support. In this population, body uneasiness may reflect not only evaluative dissatisfaction but also disturbances in embodiment. However, the conditional associations linking body uneasiness, eating-related symptom indicators, internalized transphobia, and …
Context matters: Reconsidering resilience factors in dehumanization pathways to dysfunctional eating among transgender and gender diverse individuals
These exploratory findings suggest that psychosocial resources may both mitigate and inadvertently intensify vulnerability to body-related distress, depending on sociocultural and community contexts. These findings underscore the potential value of individualized clinical and community interventions that address the heterogeneous needs and lived experiences of TGD people
Transgender identity and psychiatric care in Italian prisons: A thematic analysis of systemic gaps and institutional challenges
These findings illustrate how rigid systems and ambiguous housing policies may reinforce minority stress and undermine psychiatric well-being. Protective units can inadvertently reproduce exclusion when gender identity and sexual orientation are conflated or when criteria for placement remain unclear. Correctional systems should adopt flexible gender-recognition procedures, implement trauma-informed practices, develop distinct housing policies, e…
Cognitive and emotional processing in brothers of individuals with anorexia nervosa: Exploring familial cognitive vulnerability
These findings suggest that domain-general inferential difficulties-particularly in causal reasoning-may be associated with familial vulnerability to anorexia nervosa in male siblings. Further research is needed to clarify the role of such cognitive traits in the broader context of risk and to inform early identification and intervention strategies
Between Flesh and Identity: Embodied Selves in Disembodied Systems
The questions “How many sexes are there?” and “How many genders are there?” seem, on the surface, deceptively simple. Yet in psychiatric and clinical work, they open a far-reaching inquiry—not just into biology and identity, but into how society constructs, regulates, and often invalidates human diversity. As a psychiatrist, working with transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals and with those suffering from deep alienation from their own …
Exploring weight bias and negative self-evaluation in patients with mood disorders: Insights from the BodyTalk Project
Despite the striking similarities in the assessment of participants' body weight, our investigation revealed an implicit WB among individuals grappling with MD. This bias potentially assumes a role in fostering self-directed negative evaluations, shedding light on a previously unexplored facet of the interplay between WB and mood disorders
Bridging trauma and eating disorders: The role of loneliness
Loneliness partially mediates childhood trauma and ED symptoms, highlighting the need to address loneliness in treatment to mitigate the impact of childhood trauma on ED severity. These findings suggest the possible role of social connection-focused interventions in ED care and contribute to understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of EDs. Future research should explore additional mediators and moderators to provide a more comprehe…
Connections between eating psychopathology, loneliness, and quality of life: Insights from a multi-center study
These findings highlight the importance of considering both HRQoL and loneliness in EDs, particularly among younger individuals. This approach aligns with the increasing focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the recovery process. Additionally, the data confirm a link between weight and loneliness, suggesting that this connection, especially the differences between underweight patients and those of other weights, deserves further inv…
Revealing motor insensitivity to food in Anorexia Nervosa as a potential mechanism contributing to calorie restriction: A mobile Approach Avoidance Task study
Easy to get, difficult to avoid: Behavioral tendencies toward high-calorie and low-calorie food during a mobile approach-avoidance task interact with body mass index and hunger in a community sample
In recent years, different studies highlighted the importance of assessing behavioral tendencies toward different food stimuli in healthy and pathological samples. However, heterogeneities in experimental approaches and small sample sizes make this literature rather inconsistent. In this study, we used a mobile approach-avoidance task to investigate the behavioral tendencies toward healthy and unhealthy foods compared to neutral objects in a larg…
Food induced distractibility in restrictive anorexia nervosa: Different motor patterns for different foods as revealed by a mouse tracker evaluation
An altered automatic processing of food stimuli may contribute to the maintenance of calorie restriction in patients with restrictive Anorexia Nervosa (AN-R). The present study aimed to assess whether task-irrelevant food distractors elicited a different interference effect in the motor actions of patients with AN-R compared to healthy controls (HC). 40 patients with acute AN-R and 40 HC performed an irrelevant distractor task in which they were …
Clinical and Cognitive Functioning Changes After Partial Hospitalization in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa
Introduction: Anorexia nervosa is usually associated with emotional and cognitive difficulties. Little knowledge is available about the changes in cognitive functioning in patients undergoing treatments. The aim of the present study was to longitudinally assess the impact of partial hospitalization on clinical and cognitive functioning in anorexia nervosa. Materials and Methods: 56 women with anorexia nervosa according to DSM-5 criteria and 58 he…
Subliminal versus supraliminal stimuli activate neural responses in anterior cingulate cortex, fusiform gyrus and insula: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies
Non-conscious processing of arousing stimuli may involve primary visual areas and may also recruit the insula, a brain area involved in eventual interoceptive awareness. The anterior cingulate is perhaps a key brain region for the integration of conscious and non-conscious processing. These preliminary data provide candidate brain regions for further study in to the neural correlates of conscious experience
Easy to get, difficult to avoid: Behavioral tendencies toward high-calorie and low-calorie food during a mobile approach-avoidance task interact with body mass index and hunger in a community sample
In recent years, different studies highlighted the importance of assessing behavioral tendencies toward different food stimuli in healthy and pathological samples. However, heterogeneities in experimental approaches and small sample sizes make this literature rather inconsistent. In this study, we used a mobile approach-avoidance task to investigate the behavioral tendencies toward healthy and unhealthy foods compared to neutral objects in a larg…
Revealing motor insensitivity to food in Anorexia Nervosa as a potential mechanism contributing to calorie restriction: A mobile Approach Avoidance Task study
Food induced distractibility in restrictive anorexia nervosa: Different motor patterns for different foods as revealed by a mouse tracker evaluation
An altered automatic processing of food stimuli may contribute to the maintenance of calorie restriction in patients with restrictive Anorexia Nervosa (AN-R). The present study aimed to assess whether task-irrelevant food distractors elicited a different interference effect in the motor actions of patients with AN-R compared to healthy controls (HC). 40 patients with acute AN-R and 40 HC performed an irrelevant distractor task in which they were …
Subliminal versus supraliminal stimuli activate neural responses in anterior cingulate cortex, fusiform gyrus and insula: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies
Non-conscious processing of arousing stimuli may involve primary visual areas and may also recruit the insula, a brain area involved in eventual interoceptive awareness. The anterior cingulate is perhaps a key brain region for the integration of conscious and non-conscious processing. These preliminary data provide candidate brain regions for further study in to the neural correlates of conscious experience
Clinical and Cognitive Functioning Changes After Partial Hospitalization in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa
Introduction: Anorexia nervosa is usually associated with emotional and cognitive difficulties. Little knowledge is available about the changes in cognitive functioning in patients undergoing treatments. The aim of the present study was to longitudinally assess the impact of partial hospitalization on clinical and cognitive functioning in anorexia nervosa. Materials and Methods: 56 women with anorexia nervosa according to DSM-5 criteria and 58 he…
Easy to get, difficult to avoid: Behavioral tendencies toward high-calorie and low-calorie food during a mobile approach-avoidance task interact with body mass index and hunger in a community sample
In recent years, different studies highlighted the importance of assessing behavioral tendencies toward different food stimuli in healthy and pathological samples. However, heterogeneities in experimental approaches and small sample sizes make this literature rather inconsistent. In this study, we used a mobile approach-avoidance task to investigate the behavioral tendencies toward healthy and unhealthy foods compared to neutral objects in a larg…
Food induced distractibility in restrictive anorexia nervosa: Different motor patterns for different foods as revealed by a mouse tracker evaluation
An altered automatic processing of food stimuli may contribute to the maintenance of calorie restriction in patients with restrictive Anorexia Nervosa (AN-R). The present study aimed to assess whether task-irrelevant food distractors elicited a different interference effect in the motor actions of patients with AN-R compared to healthy controls (HC). 40 patients with acute AN-R and 40 HC performed an irrelevant distractor task in which they were …
Exploring weight bias and negative self-evaluation in patients with mood disorders: Insights from the BodyTalk Project
Despite the striking similarities in the assessment of participants' body weight, our investigation revealed an implicit WB among individuals grappling with MD. This bias potentially assumes a role in fostering self-directed negative evaluations, shedding light on a previously unexplored facet of the interplay between WB and mood disorders
Bridging trauma and eating disorders: The role of loneliness
Loneliness partially mediates childhood trauma and ED symptoms, highlighting the need to address loneliness in treatment to mitigate the impact of childhood trauma on ED severity. These findings suggest the possible role of social connection-focused interventions in ED care and contribute to understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of EDs. Future research should explore additional mediators and moderators to provide a more comprehe…
Connections between eating psychopathology, loneliness, and quality of life: Insights from a multi-center study
These findings highlight the importance of considering both HRQoL and loneliness in EDs, particularly among younger individuals. This approach aligns with the increasing focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the recovery process. Additionally, the data confirm a link between weight and loneliness, suggesting that this connection, especially the differences between underweight patients and those of other weights, deserves further inv…
Revealing motor insensitivity to food in Anorexia Nervosa as a potential mechanism contributing to calorie restriction: A mobile Approach Avoidance Task study
Cognitive and emotional processing in brothers of individuals with anorexia nervosa: Exploring familial cognitive vulnerability
These findings suggest that domain-general inferential difficulties-particularly in causal reasoning-may be associated with familial vulnerability to anorexia nervosa in male siblings. Further research is needed to clarify the role of such cognitive traits in the broader context of risk and to inform early identification and intervention strategies
Between Flesh and Identity: Embodied Selves in Disembodied Systems
The questions “How many sexes are there?” and “How many genders are there?” seem, on the surface, deceptively simple. Yet in psychiatric and clinical work, they open a far-reaching inquiry—not just into biology and identity, but into how society constructs, regulates, and often invalidates human diversity. As a psychiatrist, working with transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals and with those suffering from deep alienation from their own …
Body-Related Distress, Eating-Risk Indicators, and Minority Stress Correlates in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults: A Network Analysis
BACKGROUND: Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals experience elevated body-related distress and eating-related symptoms, often in the context of minority stress and variable social support. In this population, body uneasiness may reflect not only evaluative dissatisfaction but also disturbances in embodiment. However, the conditional associations linking body uneasiness, eating-related symptom indicators, internalized transphobia, and …
Context matters: Reconsidering resilience factors in dehumanization pathways to dysfunctional eating among transgender and gender diverse individuals
These exploratory findings suggest that psychosocial resources may both mitigate and inadvertently intensify vulnerability to body-related distress, depending on sociocultural and community contexts. These findings underscore the potential value of individualized clinical and community interventions that address the heterogeneous needs and lived experiences of TGD people
Transgender identity and psychiatric care in Italian prisons: A thematic analysis of systemic gaps and institutional challenges
These findings illustrate how rigid systems and ambiguous housing policies may reinforce minority stress and undermine psychiatric well-being. Protective units can inadvertently reproduce exclusion when gender identity and sexual orientation are conflated or when criteria for placement remain unclear. Correctional systems should adopt flexible gender-recognition procedures, implement trauma-informed practices, develop distinct housing policies, e…
Eating Disorders and Behaviors (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Eating disorders (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Anorexia nervosa (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)