About me
Motivated by a special interest in mental health, I graduated in Medicine in 2011 and performed a clinical residency in Psychiatry at the University of Perugia (Italy). In 2014 I performed a research attachment at the South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, UK. In the last year of the specialty (2016) I collaborated with the Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona (Spain) and I got involved in a project that aims to understand the psychiatric correlates of self- or hetero-aggression in bipolar disorder and decided to further my PhD thesis on this topic. After completing my clinical residency, I worked in Italy as a psychiatrist and clinical investigator. In January 2018 I joined FIDMAG He
Featured publications
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Mixed Features in Depression: The Unmet Needs of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition
Authors:Reference: Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2020. -
Widespread white matter microstructural abnormalities in bipolar disorder: evidence from mega- and meta-analyses across 3033 individuals
Authors:Reference: Neuropsychopharmacology 2019. -
A 12-month prospective study on the time to hospitalization and clinical management of a cohort of bipolar type I and schizoaffective bipolar patients.
Authors:Reference: European Psychiatry 2019. -
The role of different patterns of psychomotor symptoms in major depressive episode: Pooled analysis of the BRIDGE and BRIDGE-II-MIX cohorts.
Authors:Reference: Bipolar Disorders 2019. -
Patterns of response to antidepressants in major depressive disorder: Drug resistance or worsening of depression are associated with a bipolar diathesis
Authors:Reference: European Neuropsychopharmacology 2019. -
Aggressiveness in depression: a neglected symptom possibly associated with bipolarity and mixed features.
Authors:Reference: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2017. -
The aggressor at the mirror: Psychiatric correlates of deliberate self-harm in male prison inmates
Authors:Reference: European Psychiatry 2017. -
Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorders: a descriptive comparison of psychopathological aspects in patients discharged from an Italian Inpatient Unit using PANSS and BPRS.
Authors:Reference: Psychiatria Danubina 2015. -
Mixed states: A new nosographic entity
Authors:Reference: Psychiatria Danubina 2014.