Carlo Adolfo Porro

Carlo Adolfo Porro is a Professor at the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neuroscience Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research focuses on neural mechanisms of pain, empathy processing, and palliative care integration in oncology and hematology. He employs fMRI and neuroimaging to investigate pain perception, emotional recognition, and placebo analgesia.

• Key Research Areas
  • Neurobiology of pain and empathy
  • Clinical applications in palliative care
  • Temporal perception and motor cognition
  • Placebo mechanisms in neurorehabilitation
• Methodological Expertise
  • Functional MRI analysis
  • Psycholinguistic pain models
  • Placebo-controlled clinical meta-analyses
  • Motor ideation-execution paradigms
• Collaborative Networks
  • Italian Consensus Conference on Pain in Neurorehabilitation
  • International palliative care research groups
  • Neuroimaging consortia

His recent work examines deceptive pain expressions, metaphorical language in palliative care, and neural substrates of semantic pain. Publications span from 2016 to 2025, with emphasis on clinical neuroscience and patient-centered care models. Porro's team explores neural network interactions, emotional recognition circuits, and contextual factors in pain processing.