- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Sleep and related disorders
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
University of Bari Aldo Moro
2020-2025
Sleep disorders represent an important comorbidity in individuals with ADHD. While the links between ADHD and sleep disturbances have been extensively investigated, research on management of is relatively limited, albeit expanding.
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a transdiagnostic behavior often found in patients with eating disorders (EDs). Both conditions plateau adolescence and share psychopathological traits. Our study focuses on body image concerns, complex construct associated both NSSI ED, as shared risk factor between the two. This included 73 participants aged 14-24 recruited from Eating Disorders Day Hospital, University Hospital of Bari, Italy, divided into two groups: those an ED (ED + NSSI) without...
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant public health issue that particularly affects female adolescents usually emerging during puberty, with subsequent reduction and even remission in the phenomenon later life. The dysregulation of hormonal stress response, cortisol dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), whose levels increase markedly pubertal adrenarche, has been associated development maintenance wide range emotional disorders. Our study aims to investigate whether different...
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) is the self-inflicted destruction of body tissues without suicidal intent with a prevalence 1.5% to 6.7% in youth population. At present, it not clear which emotional and behavioral components are specifically associated it. Therefore, we studied NSSI clinical sample using Ottawa Self-injury Inventory Barratt Impulsiveness Scale 11. The Mann–Whitney test was used compare numerical responses provided tests. We found 54 patients NSSI, mean age 17 years. Scores...
Adolescents with gender dysphoria (GD) often have internalizing symptoms, but the relationship affective bodily investment and emotion dysregulation is actually under-investigated. The aims of this study are: (1) comparison Self-Administrated Psychiatric Scales for Children Adolescents' (SAFA), Body Investment Scale's (BIS), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (DERS) scores between GD adolescents (n = 30) cisgenders 30), (2) finding correlations body regulation sample, (3) evaluating link...
Psychiatric disorders are associated with cardiometabolic diseases, partly due to adverse drug effects individual risk variabilities. Risperidone and sertraline widely used for youths. Although they may be exposed anthropometric changes, few data about this population exist. We evaluated the correlation between several blood parameters body changes in a very small group of drug-naïve adolescents who had started risperidone or sertraline. examined weight, waist circumference (WC), WC/height...
Starting in 2015, the Residencies for Execution of Security Measures (REMS) became place treatment and care dangerous offenders who were acquitted due to a mental disorder Italy. Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) personality (PD) are most common psychiatric among REMS patients. This study aimed identify describe potential clinical, therapeutic, criminal-related differences patients with SSD PD. A sample 528 extracted from previous observational retrospective underwent secondary...