Talks

Conference talks (national and international)

• 2025 – Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) – Sezione Sperimentale, Torino, Italy.
  1) Sambuco et al. Individual differences in salience attribution: Neural correlates of sign- and goal-tracking in humans. Talk.
  2) Sambuco et al. Individual reward styles predict brain and behavioral responses to dopaminergic challenges. Mini-talk.

• 2024 – Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive (SIPF), Verona, Italy.
  Sambuco et al. Neuroimaging phenotypes of sign- and goal-tracking in humans are associated with D2 antagonist response. Oral presentation.

• 2024 – Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive (SIPF), Cesena, Italy.
  Sambuco. The impact of narrative threat imagery on brain function: A transdiagnostic approach to emotional reactivity. Talk.

• 2023 – Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), New Orleans, USA.
  1) Sambuco. Aversive imagery in internalizing disorders: A transdiagnostic analysis of functional brain activity and connectivity. Talk.
  2) Sambuco. Amygdala structure and function in trauma-related psychopathology. Talk.
  3) Sambuco. Affective modulation of the LPP and subjective emotional arousal: A comparison between adolescents and young adults. Talk.

• 2023 – Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) – Sezione Sperimentale, Lucca, Italy.
  1) Sambuco. Challenges in finding pleasant stimuli with similar neuroaffective responses between adolescents and young adults. Talk (Blitz-poster session).
  2) Sambuco. Discussant (invited) for the junior symposium “Mapping emotions from the brain to the guts”.

Invited talks

• 2025 – A translational neurocognitive model of sign- and goal-tracking.
  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, July 2025.
  Invited by Mitul M. Mehta, Professor of Neuroimaging & Psychopharmacology and Director of the Centre for Innovative Therapeutics.

• 2024 – Identifying Sign- and Goal-Tracking Phenotypes in Human Reward Processing: Neural Correlates of Incentive Salience.
  Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, October 2024.
  Invited by Luca Cecchetti, Associate Professor.

• 2021 – Trauma severity across the internalizing disorder spectrum: Brain function and structure.
  MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, January 2021.
  Invited by Francesco Versace, Professor.

• 2021 – Vulnerability to psychiatric symptoms in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of temperament.
  Center for OCD, Anxiety, and Related Disorders (COARD), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, February 2021.
  Invited by Carol Mathews, Chair and Professor, Department of Psychiatry.

• 2020 – The replicability crisis in affective neuroscience.
  Center for OCD, Anxiety, and Related Disorders (COARD), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, January 2020.
  Invited by Carol Mathews, Chair and Professor, Department of Psychiatry.