M Casacchia

University of L'Aquila

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Rita Roncone

University of L'Aquila

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Alessandro Rossi

University of L'Aquila

R. Pollice

University of L'Aquila

Paolo Stratta

Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale Abruzzo

Monica Mazza

University of L'Aquila

G. Meco

University of Padua

A. Agnoli

University of Milano-Bicocca

Vittorio Di Michele

Azienda USL di Pescara

Valeria Bianchini

University of L'Aquila

Laura Giusti

University of L'Aquila

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Advisory Board Company (United States)

Sapienza University of Rome

University of Verona

Consulintel (Spain)

Ferrari (Italy)

University of Milan

Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico

San Salvatore Hospital

University of Cagliari

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The treatment of acute psychotic episode: Discrepancy between routine practice and evidence. The project SIEP-DIRECT'S (Il trattamento dell'episodio psicotico acuto: Discrepanze fra pratiche di routine ed evidenze. Il Progetto SIEP-DIRECT'S)

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale (2008)

Antonio Lora Giuseppe Corlito Marco Miceli Walter Di Munzio Antonio Lasalvia

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EPS volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (2006)

Paolo Brambilla Michele Tansella M Casacchia T Losavio Roma Magliano

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10.1017/s1121189x00002074

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Disturbances of humour in postpartum: our experience.

PubMed (2002)

A D'Alfonso P Iovenitti M Casacchia G Carta

The study was conducted on 64 women who were to give birth. The average age ranged from 31-44 years and the instruments for evaluation consisted of: 1) Individual and psychological questionnaires; 2) Italian version of the Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36); 3) Sheehan Disability Scale; 4) Zung self-rating depression scale. Of the women included in the study 27.7% found their humour worsened during their last pregnancy, while 19.15% said that their humour worsened after the birth. In these patients we frequently found obstetric and/or puerperal pathologies. There was also a strong correlation with the premenstrual syndrome and with hyperemesis in the first trimester. On the contrary, there was no correlation with familiarity and socio-demographic characteristics. The data allow us to conclude that any pregnant woman can develop medium or strong symptoms of depression thus calling for great attention to be paid to the psychological dynamics of birth.

Depression

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Predictors of academic performance during the covid-19 outbreak: impact of distance education on mental health, social cognition and memory abilities in an Italian university student sample

BMC Psychology (2021)

Laura Giusti Silvia Mammarella Anna Salza Sasha Del Vecchio Donatella Ussorio

Abstract Background This study aimed to investigate the impact of distance education (DE) on mental health, social cognition, and memory abilities in a sample of university students during the national COVID-19 lockdown in Italy and to identify the predictors of academic performance. Methods Two hundred and three students (76.4% women, mean age 24.3, SD ± 4.9) responded to an anonymous online cross-sectional survey between July 15 and September 30, 2020, on DE experience and cognitive and social-cognitive variables. A short version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II, ten images from the Eyes Task, and five memory vignette stimuli were included in the survey. Descriptive, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results Half of the student sample reported significant impairment in concentration and learning abilities during DE. Regarding psychological health, 19.7%, 27.1%, and 23.6% of the sample reported mild, moderate, and severe depressive symptoms, respectively. Correlation analyses showed a statistically significant negative association between depression and the overall subjective evaluation of DE (r = − 0.359; p < 0.000). Changes in one’s study context and habits, i.e., studying alone at one’s parents’ home instead of studying with colleagues or alone in a university “social place” (e.g., the university library), seemed to increase the likelihood of poor academic performance by almost 3 times (O.R. 3.918; p = 0.032). This predictor was no longer statistically significant in the subsequent step when the individual impairment predictors were entered. Learning concentration impairment during DE (O.R. 8.350; p = 0.014), anxiety about COVID-19 contagion for oneself or others (O.R. 3.363; p = 0.022), female gender (O.R. 3.141; p = 0.045), and depressive symptomatology (O.R. 1.093; p = 0.047) were ultimately determined to be the strongest predictors of poor academic performance, whereas the appreciation of DE represented a protective variable (O.R. 0.610; p < 0.000). Conclusions The study showed a negative impact of DE on the mental health of students presenting depressive symptoms and impairment in concentration and learning, the latter identified as the strongest predictors of poor academic performances. The study confirms the emerging need to monitor the impact of DE, which occurred during the 2019/2020 academic year and will continue in the coming months, to refine educational offerings and meet students' psychological needs by implementing psychological interventions based on the modifiable variables that seem to compromise students’ psychological well-being and academic outcomes.

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Working memory and remediation of Wisconsin card sorting test performance in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research (1996)

Paolo Stratta Fabrizio Mancini Paolo Mattei E. Daneluzzo A. Nardone

Schizotypal personality disorder

10.1016/0920-9964(96)85652-0

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[Physiological and psychopathological aspects of eating behavior].

PubMed (1993)

D. Spaziani Isidori Mv S Floridi M Casacchia

Eating behaviour variations are often observed in medical practice. Sometimes they are physiological manifestations, rarely they are paraphysiological, many times they amount to pathological behaviour. Their heterogeneity could account for treatment problems met by the family doctor. Our study was aimed to increase the family doctor's attention to the eating behaviour of their patients. Greater awareness in family doctors of problems in their patients' eating behaviour may be apt to lead to an improvement in dietary habits and consequently to greater psychologic and physical wellbeing of the patients.

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In memoriam Pierluigi Morosini, 1941–2008

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (2008)

M Casacchia

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10.1017/s1121189x00000166

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[Therapeutic problems of the so-called impregnation syndrome due to neuroleptics].

PubMed (1975)

M Casacchia Antonio Carolei A Zamponi G Argenta

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Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: a preliminary study

Springer eBooks (1987)