Sara Palermo is an MSc in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Experimental Neuroscience. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Turin (Italy). She is a researcher of the “Center for the Study of Movement Disorders” and the “Placebo Responses Mapping Group” at the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the “Neuropsychology of cognitive impairment and central nervous system degenerative diseases Group” at the Department of Psychology, all at the University of Turin. Moreover, she collaborates as a scientific consultant at the Neuroradiology Department of IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan.