Maria Chiara Liverani

Docteure en Neurosciences, 

Maître Assistante, Chargée de cours suppléante

THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

• Impact de la prématurité sur le développement et la plasticité cérébrale des enfants et des adolescents, ainsi que sur leur comportement et fonctionnement cognitif;
• Développement d’outils d’intervention pour réduire les séquelles en lien avec une naissance prématurée comme la pratique de la pleine conscience ou des entrainements socio-émotionnels;           
• Impact des émotions sur les performances en mathématiques des enfants en âge scolaire;

CONTACT

Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation (FPSE)
Laboratoire du développement Sensorimoteur, Affectif et Social (SMAS)
Université de Genève
Uni Mail, 40 Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve – 1211 Genève 4, Suisse
Bureau 4152
Tél. :  +41 22 379 90 24 
E-mail : Maria.Liverani(at)unige.ch
 

Autre affiliation: Child Developement Laboratory - Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

 
Publication list

Published articles (* shared co-first authorship)

Liverani, M. C., Kalogirou, E., Rivier, C., & Gentaz, E. (2023). Effects of two types of numerical problems on the emotions experienced in adults and in 9-year-old children. Plos one, 18(11), e0289027. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289027

Liverani, M. C., Loukas, S., Gui, L., Pittet, M. P., Pereira, M., Truttmann, A. C., ... & Borradori‐Tolsa, C. (2023). Behavioral outcome of very preterm children at 5 years of age: Prognostic utility of brain tissue volumes at term‐equivalent‐age, perinatal, and environmental factors. Brain and Behavior, 13(2), e2818. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2818

Siffredi, V., Liverani, M. C., Van De Ville, D., Freitas, L. G., Tolsa, C. B., Hüppi, P. S., & Leuchter, R. H. V. (2023). Corpus callosum structural characteristics in very preterm children and adolescents: developmental trajectory and relationship to cognitive functioning. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101211

Siffredi, V., Liverani, M. C., Borradori-Tolsa, C., Leuchter, R. H. V., Thiran, J. P., Hüppi, P. S., & Fischi-Gómez, E. (2023). Cortical alterations after very preterm birth and the association with socio-emotional abilities from childhood to early adolescence. Cerebral Cortex, bhad187. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad187

Siffredi, V., Liverani, M. C., Freitas, L. G., Tadros, D., Farouj, Y., Borradori Tolsa, C., ... & Ha-Vinh Leuchter, R. (2023). Large-scale brain network dynamics in very preterm children and relationship with socio-emotional outcomes: an exploratory study. Pediatric Research, 93(7), 2072-2080. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-02342-y

Liverani, M. C., Kalogirou, E., De Blaireville, A. D., Cavadini, T., Tomasetto, C., & Gentaz, E. (2022). Étude des liens entre le « math self-concept», les émotions anticipées, la mémoire de travail et les habiletés numériques chez les élèves de 4-5 ans dans le canton de Genève. ANAE, 34(180), 607-617.

Siffredi, V.*, Liverani, M. C.*, Hüppi, P. S., Freitas, L. G., De Albuquerque, J., Gimbert, F., ... & Borradori Tolsa, C. (2021). The effect of a mindfulness-based intervention on executive, behavioural and socio-emotional competencies in very preterm young adolescents. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98608-2

Siffredi, V.*, Liverani, M. C.*, Magnus-Smith, M., Meskaldji, D., Stuckelberger-Grobety, F., Freitas, L., ... & Leuchter, R. H. V. (2021). Improving executive, behavioural and socio-emotional competences in very preterm young adolescents through a mindfulness-based intervention: study protocol and feasibility. Early Human Development, 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105435

Liverani, M. C., Freitas, L., Siffredi, V., Borradori Tolsa, C., Ha-Vinh Leuchter, R., Schnider, A., Van De Ville, D., Hüppi, P. S. (2021). Altered orbitofrontal activation in preterm-born young adolescents during performance of a reality filtering task. Neuroimage: Clinical, 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102668

Siffredi, V., Liverani, M.C., Hà-Vinh Leuchter, R. (2021). Les bénéfices des interventions basées sur la pleine conscience pour les troubles neuro-développementaux et socio-émotionnels : une revue de la littérature. Approche neuropsychologique des apprentissages chez l’enfant (ANAE), 174.

Liverani, M. C., Freitas, L., Siffredi, V., Mikneviciute, G., Martuzzi, R., Meskaldji, D., Borradori Tolsa, C., Ha-Vinh Leuchter, R., Schnider, A., Van De Ville, D., Hüppi, P. S. (2020). Get real: orbitofrontal cortex mediates the ability to sense reality in early adolescents. Brain and Behavior, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1552

Hà-Vinh Leuchter, R., Siffredi, V., Magnus Smith, M., Liverani, M. C., Merglen, A., Borradori Tolsa, C. (2020). Interventions basées sur la pleine conscience pour les enfants et les adolescents, Rev Med Suisse, 16, 2297 – 300. https://www.revmed.ch/revue-medicale-suisse/2020/revue-medicale-suisse-716/interventions-basees-sur-la-pleine-conscience-pour-les-enfants-et-les-adolescents

Liverani, M. C., Manuel, A.L., Nahum, L., Guardabassi, V., Tomasetto, C., Schnider, A. (2017). Children’s sense of reality: The development of orbitofrontal reality filtering. Child Neuropsychology, 23(4), 408-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2015.1120861

Liverani, M. C., Manuel, A.L., Guggisberg, A.G., Nahum, L., Schnider, A. (2016). No influence of positive emotion on Orbitofrontal reality filtering: relevance for confabulation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 98. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00098

Liverani, M. C., Manuel, A.L., Bouzerda-Wahlen, A., Genetti, M., Guggisberg, A.G., Nahum, L., Schnider, A. (2015). Memory in time:Electrophysiological comparison between reality filtering andtemporal order judgment. Neuroscience, 289, 279-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.064

Bouzerda-Wahlen, A., Nahum, L., Liverani, M. C., Guggisberg, A.G., Schnider, A. (2015). An electrophysiological dissociation betweenorbitofrontal reality filtering and context source monitoring. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(1), 164-174. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00686

Nahum, L., Pignat, J.M., Bouzerda-Wahlen, A., Gabriel, D., Liverani, M. C., Lazeyras, F., Ptak, R., Richiardi, J., Haller, S., Thorens, G., Zullino, D.F., Guggisberg, A.G., Schnider, A. (2014). Neural Correlate of Anterograde Amnesia in Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome. Brain Topography, 28(5), 760-770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-014-0391-5
 

Peer-reviewed monograph

Liverani, M. C., Orbitofrontal reality filtering specified: relation to temporal order memory, role of emotion and development. April 2016. PhD thesis. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:84443
 

Contributions to books

Liverani, M. C., Siffredi, V., Hüppi, P. S. (2022). Développement cérébrale en imagerie chez l’enfant typique. In P. Fournet & E. Gentaz (Ed.). Le développement neurocognitif de la naissance à l’adolescence (pp 28-40). Elsevier Health Sciences, Pedia collection.
 

Submitted articles

Liverani M. C.*, Siffredi, V.*, De Albuquerque J., Merglen, A., Hà-Vinh Leuchter, R., Hüppi, P. S., Borradori Tolsa, C., Gentaz, E. Vis-à-vis training” to improve emotional and executive competences in very preterm children: A randomised controlled trial. Paediatric Research, under review.

Siffredi, V., Escobar, L., Pereira Camejo, M., Liverani, M. C., Fischi E., Gui, L., Borradori Tolsa, C. B., Hüppi, P. S., & Leuchter, R. H. V. Amygdala volumes and associations with socio emotional competencies in preterm youth: cross-sectional and longitudinal data. Pediatric research, under review.  

Siffredi, V., Liverani, M.C., Fernandez, N., Freitas, L., Borradori Tolsa, C., Van De Ville, D., Hüppi, P.S., Ha-Vinh Leuchter, R. The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on neurobehavioural functioning and its association with large-scale brain networks in preterm young adolescents. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, under review.