Mannarino, Giulio Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4056-4244
Cartei, Alessandro
Ceccofiglio, Alice
Giannolo, Anna
Polidori, Gianluca
Rubbieri, Gaia
Fabbri, Elisa
Fioretti, Barbara
Vilucchi, Cristina
Testa, Giuseppe Dario
Rivasi, Giulia
Ungar, Andrea
Funding for this research was provided by:
EU (National Recovery)
EU (Resilience Plan)
EU (Investment PE8 – Project Age-It: “Ageing Well in an Age-ing Society”.)
Article History
Received: 28 January 2026
Revised: 10 May 2026
Accepted: 2 June 2026
First Online: 16 June 2026
Declarations
:
: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
: The study was conducted in compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki for Human Research. The study was approved by the Local Research Ethics Committee (protocol reference number: ref. 16011_oss).
: Written informed consent was obtained from each participant or their legal representative prior to study inclusion.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Fig. and Supplementary Fig. 1.