Silvana De Pirro
Visiting Research Fellow (Psychology)

Selected publications

Article

De Pirro, Silvana, Lush, Peter, Parkinson, Jim, Duka, Theodora, Critchley, Hugo D and Badiani, Aldo (2019) Effect of alcohol on the sense of agency in healthy humans. Addiction Biology. ISSN 1355-6215

Badiani, Aldo, Caprioli, Daniele and De Pirro, Silvana (2019) Opposite environmental gating of the experienced utility (‘liking’) and decision utility (‘wanting’) of heroin versus cocaine in animals and humans: implications for computational neuroscience. Psychopharmacology. ISSN 0033-3158

De Pirro, Silvana, Galati, Gaspare, Pizzamiglio, Luigi and Badiani, Aldo (2018) The affective and neural correlates of heroin vs. cocaine use in addiction are influenced by environmental setting but in opposite directions. Journal of Neuroscience, 38 (22). pp. 5182-5195. ISSN 0270-6474

Badiani, Aldo, Boden, Joseph M, De Pirro, Silvana, Fergusson, David M, Horwood, L John and Harold, Gordon (2015) Tobacco smoking and cannabis use in a longitudinal birth cohort: evidence of reciprocal causal relationships. Drug and alcohol dependence, 150. pp. 69-76. ISSN 1879-0046

Conference Proceedings

Cornelio Martinez, Patricia Ivette, De Pirro, Silvana, Vi, Chi Thanh and Subramanian, Sriram (2017) Agency in mid-air interfaces. Published in: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Denver, Colorado, USA; 06-11 May 2017. 2426-2439. Association for Computing Machinery, New York. ISBN 9781450346559

Thesis

De Pirro, Silvana (2017) Substance-specific modulation of the affective and neurobiological effects of heroin and cocaine in human addicts. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.