PUBLICATIONS QMT

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Peer-reviewed articles

• Marson, F., Zampieri, M., Verdone, L., Bacalini, M. G., Ravaioli, F., Morandi, L., ... & Reale, A. (2023). Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) is associated with DNA methylation changes at DNA repeats: A pilot study. Plos one, 18(10), e0293199.
• Verdone, L., Marson, F., Caserta, M., Zampieri, M., Reale, A., Bacalini, M. G., ... & Venditti, S. (2023). Quadrato motor training (QMT) influences IL-1β expression and creativity: Implications for inflammatory state reduction and cognitive enhancement.
• Pellegrino, M., Ben-Soussan, T. D., & Paoletti, P. (2023). A Scoping Review on Movement, Neurobiology and Functional Deficits in Dyslexia: Suggestions for a Three-Fold Integrated Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 3315.
• Marson, F., Fano, A. D., Pellegrino, M., Pesce, C., Glicksohn, J., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2021). Age-Related Differential Effects of School-Based Sitting and Movement Meditation on Creativity and Spatial Cognition: A Pilot Study. Children, 8(7), 583.
• Ben-Soussan T.D., et al., (in press). Divergent thinking and homolateral interlimb coordination among Mindful Movement practitioners. Journal of Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics.
• Ben-Soussan T.D., et al., (in press). Molecular and cognitive effects of Quadrato Motor Training in adult dyslexia: a longitudinal case study. Journal of Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics.
• Leshem, R., De Fano, A., & Ben-Soussan, T. D., (2020) The implications of motor and cognitive inhibition for hot and cool executive functions: The case of Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in Psychology
• Ben-Soussan TD, Marson F, Piervincenzi C, Glicksohn J, De Fano A, Amenduni F, Quattrocchi CC and Carducci F (2020) Correlates of Silence: Enhanced Microstructural Changes in the Uncinate Fasciculus. Front. Psychol. 11:543773. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.543773
• De Fano, A., Leshem, R., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2019). Creating an Internal Environment of Cognitive and Psycho-Emotional Well-Being through an External Movement-Based Environment: An Overview of Quadrato Motor Training. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(12), 2160.
• Leshem, R., Paoletti, P., Piervincenzi, C., Carducci, F., Mallio, C. A., Errante, Y., ... & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2019). Inward versus reward: white matter pathways in extraversion. Personality Neuroscience, 2.
• Caserta, M., Ben-Soussan, T. D., Vetriani, V., Venditti, S., & Verdone, L. (2019). Influence of Quadrato Motor Training on Salivary proNGF and proBDNF. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 58.
• Ben‐Soussan, T. D., Glicksohn, J., De Fano, A., Mauro, F., Marson, F., Modica, M., & Pesce, C. (2019). Embodied time: Time production in advanced Quadrato and Aikido practitioners. PsyCh journal.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., & Glicksohn, J. (2018). Gender-dependent changes in time production following Quadrato Motor Training in dyslexic and normal readers. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 12.
• Nissim, M., Ram‐Tsur, R., Glicksohn, J., Zion, M., Mevarech, Z., Harpaz, Y., & Dotan Ben‐Soussan, T. (2018). Effects of Aquatic Motor Intervention on Verbal Working Memory and Brain Activity—A Pilot Study. Mind, Brain, and Education, 12(2), 90-99.
• Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., Ben-Soussan, T. D., & Goldstein, A. (2017). Creativity is enhanced by long-term mindfulness training and is negatively correlated with trait default-mode-related low-gamma inter-hemispheric connectivity. Mindfulness, 8(3), 717-727.
• Ben-Soussan T.D., Berkovich-Ohana A., Glicksohn J., (2017). Attentional Effort, Mindfulness and Altered States of Consciousness experiences following Quadrato Motor Training. Mindfulness. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-015-0469-5.
• Lasaponara, S., Mauro, F., Carducci, F., Paoletti, P., Tombini, M., Quattrocchi, C. C., ... & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2017). Increased alpha band functional connectivity following the Quadrato Motor Training: a longitudinal study. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 282.
• Piervincenzi, C., Ben-Soussan, T. D., Mauro, F., Mallio, C. A., Errante, Y., Quattrocchi, C. C., & Carducci, F. (2017). White Matter Microstructural Changes Following Quadrato Motor Training: A Longitudinal Study. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 590.
• Lasaponara, S., Mauro, F., Ben-Soussan, T. D., Carducci, F., Tombini, M., Quattrocchi, C. C., Errante, Y., Mallio, C. A., Paoletti, P. (2016). Electrophysiological indexes of eyes open and closed resting states conditions following the Quadrato Motor Training. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 18(2), 99-108.
• Pesce, C., Croce, R., Ben-Soussan, T. D., Vazou, S., McCullick, B., Tomporowski, P. D., & Horvat, M. (2016). Variability of practice as an interface between motor and cognitive development. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-20.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Piervincenzi, C., Glicksohn, J., & Carducci, F. (2015). Embodied cognitive flexibility and neuroplasticity following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1021.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., Glicksohn, J., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2015). From cerebellar activation and connectivity to cognition: a review of the Quadrato Motor Training. BioMed research international, 2015.
• Ben‐Soussan, T. D., Piervincenzi, C., Venditti, S., Verdone, L., Caserta, M., & Carducci, F. (2015). Increased cerebellar volume and BDNF level following quadrato motor training. Synapse, 69(1), 1-6.
• Venditti, S., Verdone, L., Pesce, C., Tocci, N., Caserta, M., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2015). Creating well-being: increased creativity and proNGF decrease following Quadrato Motor Training. BioMed research international, 2015.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., Avirame, K., Glicksohn, J., Goldstein, A., Harpaz, Y., & Ben-Shachar, M. (2014). Changes in cerebellar activity and inter-hemispheric coherence accompany improved reading performance following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 8, 81.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2014). A suspended act: increased reflectivity and gender-dependent electrophysiological change following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 55.
• Nissim, M., Ram-Tsur, R., Zion, M., Mevarech, Z., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2014). Effects of aquatic motor activities on early childhood cognitive and motor development. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2(12), 24.
• Ben-Soussan, T. D., Glicksohn, J., Goldstein, A., Berkovich-Ohana, A., & Donchin, O. (2013). Into the square and out of the box: the effects of Quadrato Motor Training on creativity and alpha coherence. PloS one, 8(1), e55023.
• Ram-Tsur, R., Nissim, M., Zion, M., Ben-Soussan, T. D., & Mevarech, Z. (2013). Language Development: The effect of aquatic and on-land motor interventions. Creative Education, 4(09), 41.

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Book chapters

• Paoletti, P., Ben-Soussan, T. D., & Glicksohn, J. (2020). Inner navigation and theta activity: from movement to cognition and hypnosis according to the Sphere Model of Consciousness. In Hypnotherapy and hypnosis. IntechOpen.
• Marson, F., Paoletti, P., Lasaponara, S., Glicksohn, J., De Fano, A., Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2020) Cerebral Spectral Perturbation during Upper Limb Diagonal Movements. Advances in Neural Signal Processing
• Lasaponara, S., Glicksohn, J., Mauro, F., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2019). Contingent negative variation and P3 modulations following mindful movement training. Progress in Brain Research, N. Srinivasan (Ed.) Meditation (244), 101-114
• Marson, F., Paoletti, P., Ben-Soussan TD., (2018). The diagonal movement: electrophysiological effects and clinical implications. Global experts meeting on psychiatry and mental health, Italy, July 2018. Int J Ment Health Psychiatry 2018, Volume 4. DOI: 10.4172/2471-4372-C2-011
• Paoletti, P., Glicksohn, J., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2017). Inner design technology: improved affect by Quadrato Motor Training. In The Amygdala-Where Emotions Shape Perception, Learning and Memories. IntechOpen.
• Paoletti, P., Glicksohn, J., Berkovich-Ohana, A., & Ben-Soussan, T. (2017). Neurophenomenology of embodied symbols–the case of the square and the EGG. Proceedings of the Arbitariness of the Sign, University of Genova.
• Pesce, C., & Ben-Soussan, T. D. (2016). 'Cogito ergo sum' or 'ambulo ergo sum'? New perspectives in developmental exercise and cognition research. In T. McMorris (ed.), Exercise-Cognition Interaction: Neuroscience Perspectives. London: Elsevier
• Dotan Ben-Soussan, T., Glicksohn, J., Berkovich- Ohana, A., Donchin, O., Goldstein, A. (2011). Step in time: Changes in EEG coherence during a time estimation task following Quadrato Motor Training. In Algom, D. Zakay, E. Chajut, S. Shaki, Y. Mama, V. Shakuf (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 239-244).

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• Diamond, A., & Ling, D. S. (2019). Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive functions, including working memory. Cognitive and working memory training: Perspectives from psychology, neuroscience, and human development, 143.
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