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GABAergic neuroactive steroids: a new frontier in bipolar disorders?Mauro Giovanni Carta
Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari and Center for Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics University Hospital of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Behav Brain Funct 8:61. 2012..Further exploration of action of neuroactive steroids is likely to open new frontiers in the investigation of the etiology and treatment of mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorders...
Association of chronic hepatitis C with recurrent brief depressionMauro G Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy Electronic address
J Affect Disord 141:361-6. 2012..However, the association of RBD with chronic hepatitis C (CHC), a disease with an increased incidence of major depressive disorders, is unknown...- Decreases in depression over 20years in a mining area of Sardinia: Due to selective migration?Mauro Giovanni Carta
Centro di Psichiatria di Consultazione e Psicosomatica, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Cagliari, University of Cagliari, Italy Electronic address
J Affect Disord 141:255-60. 2012..The objective of the study was to determine if community surveys, conducted 3 times over a period of 20years in a small district of Sardinia (Italy), confirm the increase in depressive disorders reported in the recent literature... - Bipolar disorders and Wilson's diseaseMauro Giovanni Carta
University of Cagliari, Italy, Cagliari, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 12:52. 2012..The aim of this study was to determine the risk for Bipolar Disorder (BD) in Wilson's disease (WD) and to measure the impaired Quality of Life (QL) in BD with WD using standardized psychiatric diagnostic tools and a case control design... - A pattern of cerebral perfusion anomalies between major depressive disorder and Hashimoto thyroiditisMaria Carolina Hardoy
Department of Psychiatry, Reald University, Vlore, Albania
BMC Psychiatry 11:148. 2011.... 
Psychosocial wellbeing and psychiatric care in the European Communities: analysis of macro indicatorsMauro G Carta
Psychiatric Unit, Dept of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:883-92. 2004..This paper reports the findings of an analytical comparison of several macro indicators collected routinely from institutional sources in Europe...- Depressive episodes in Sardinian emigrants to Argentina: why are females at risk?Mauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Dept of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:452-6. 2006..To compare the frequency of ICD-10 depressive episodes in a community sample of Sardinian immigrants in Argentina and a community sample of Sardinian residents in Sardinia, Italy... - Adjustment Disorder: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatmentMauro Giovanni Carta
Centro per la Ricerca e la Terapia in Salute Mentale, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 5:15. 2009.... 
Quetiapine as add-on treatment for bipolar I disorder: efficacy in preventing relapse of depressive episodesMaria Carolina Hardoy
Center for Epidemiology and Clinical Practice in Mental Health ASL 7 Iglesias, Italy and Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:17. 2007..To assess the long-term response to add-on quetiapine therapy in patients with bipolar I disorder who were not adequately responding to standard medications...- Association of chronic hepatitis C with major depressive disorders: irrespective of interferon-alpha therapyMauro G Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:22. 2007..This study was aimed at elucidating whether CHC is associated with specific anxiety or mood disorders independently of confounding factors... - Add-on quetiapine in the treatment of major depressive disorder in elderly patients with cerebrovascular damageMauro Giovanni Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:28. 2007..Recent reports have suggested that the atypical antipsychotic, quetiapine may have antidepressant properties and, in mice, may prevents memory impairment and hippocampus neurodegeneration induced by global cerebral ischemia... - Improving physical quality of life with group physical activity in the adjunctive treatment of major depressive disorderMauro Giovanni Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy and University Center for Research and Clinical Practice in Mental Health, University of Cagliari Cagliari and ASL 7 Iglesias Iglesias, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:1. 2008.... - Social Phobia in an Italian region: do Italian studies show lower frequencies than community surveys conducted in other European countries?Mauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 4:31. 2004..5% to 16.0%. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of SP in Sardinia (Italy) in order to verify the evidence of a lower frequency of SP in Italy observed in previous studies (from 1.0% to 3.1%)... - [Tardive dyskinesia: review of the literature]M G Carta
Divisione di Psichiatria, Dipartimento di igiene e sanità pubblica, Universita di Cagliari, Italia
Clin Ter 155:127-33. 2004..TD is considered an important issue for public health for its invalidating characteristics. An extensive review of the literature on studies concerning efficacious treatments for TD has been carried out... - Chemokines and pro-inflammatory cytokines in Down's syndrome: an early marker for Alzheimer-type dementia?Mauro G Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 71:233-6. 2002..The study aims at verifying whether pro-inflammatory cytokines in DS are correlated with age, affective symptoms and intellectual decline to a different degree than in subjects with non-DS learning disabilities... - Association between panic disorder, major depressive disorder and celiac disease: a possible role of thyroid autoimmunityMauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari, Italy
J Psychosom Res 53:789-93. 2002..To evaluate the association between celiac disease and specific anxiety and depressive disorders and to identify potential common pathogenetic links, with particular regard to thyroid function and autoimmunity... - Sub-threshold depression and antidepressants use in a community sample: searching anxiety and finding bipolar disorderMauro G Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 11:164. 2011..To determine the use of antidepressants (ADs) in people with sub-threshold depression (SD); the lifetime prevalence of mania and hypomania in SD and the link between ADs use, bipolarity and anxiety disorders in SD... - The clinical use of gabapentin in bipolar spectrum disordersMauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari, Italy
J Affect Disord 75:83-91. 2003..Accordingly, an extensive review on this subject has been carried out... - Is recurrent brief depression an expression of mood spectrum disorders in young people? Results of a large community sampleMauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127, Cagliari, Italy
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 253:149-53. 2003..Further epidemiological and clinical studies of RBD are warranted in order to develop specific treatments and prevention strategies... - Could health care costs for depression be decreased if the disorder were correctly diagnosed and treated?M G Carta
Psychiatric Unit, Dept of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127, Cagliari, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 38:490-2. 2003.... - Recurrent brief depression in celiac diseaseMauro Giovanni Carta
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 1309127, Cagliari, Italy
J Psychosom Res 55:573-4. 2003 - [Psychotropic drug use in a sample of general population in the Sardinia region]Mauro Giovanni Carta
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Psichiatria, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09123 Cagliari
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 12:287-92. 2003..To present the results of an epidemiologic research about psychotropic drug use in Sardinia... - Impairment in visual and spatial perception in schizophrenia and delusional disorderMaria Carolina Hardoy
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
Psychiatry Res 127:163-6. 2004..Significantly better performance was seen in the normal subjects than in the schizophrenic and delusional patients. Delusional patients, in turn, showed better performance than the schizophrenic patients... - The link between thyroid autoimmunity (antithyroid peroxidase autoantibodies) with anxiety and mood disorders in the community: a field of interest for public health in the futureMauro Giovanni Carta
Department of Public Health, Division of Psychiatry, University of Cagliari, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 4:25. 2004.... - Are structured interviews truly able to detect and diagnose Bipolar II disorders in epidemiological studies? The king is still nude!Mauro Giovanni Carta
Centro per la Terapia e la Ricerca in Salute Mentale, Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Universita di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:28. 2008..Further research studies are needed on larger "negative" (to the CIDI) samples before the field will be persuaded that CIDI really does what it is supposed to do... - The lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorders and the use of antidepressant drugs in bipolar depression in ItalyMauro Giovanni Carta
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
J Affect Disord 136:775-80. 2012..The prevalence of bipolar spectrum disorders in the community is under debate and the prescription of antidepressant drugs (ADs) in bipolar depression appears to be an underestimated problem... - Quality of life and urban / rural living: preliminary results of a community survey in ItalyMauro Giovanni Carta
University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 8:169-74. 2012..The purpose of this population-based study is to examine the association between subjective quality of life and rural/urban residence in six Italian regions, including age and gender into the analysis... - Efficacy of physical activity in the adjunctive treatment of major depressive disorders: preliminary resultsAlessandra Pilu
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Porcell 4, 09100 Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:8. 2007..The aim of the present study was to confirm the efficacy of the adjunctive physical activity in the treatment of major depressive disorders, with a long term follow up (8 months)... - Gabapentin in antipsychotic-induced tardive dyskinesia: results of 1-year follow-upMaria Carolina Hardoy
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127, Cagliari, Italy
J Affect Disord 75:125-30. 2003.... - Exposure to aircraft noise and risk of psychiatric disorders: the Elmas survey--aircraft noise and psychiatric disordersMaria Carolina Hardoy
Division of Psychiatry, Dept. of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 40:24-6. 2005.... - Increased neuroactive steroid concentrations in women with bipolar disorder or major depressive disorderMaria Carolina Hardoy
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari 09100, Italy
J Clin Psychopharmacol 26:379-84. 2006..These differences did not seem to be attributable simply to drug treatment or to comorbidity with other psychiatric conditions in the patients... - The link between neurosteroids and syndromic/syndromal components of the mood spectrum disorders in women during the premenstrual phaseMaria Carolina Hardoy
Department of Public Health, Centre for Research and Clinical Practice in Mental Health, Iglesisas, University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:3. 2008.... - Strategy to Accelerate or Augment the Antidepressant Response and for An Early Onset of SSRI Activity. Adjunctive Amisulpride to Fluvoxamine in Major Depressive DisorderMaria Carolina Hardoy
Department of Public Health, Centre for Research and Clinical Practice in Mental Health, Iglesias, University of Cagliari, Italy
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 6:1-3. 2010..The purpose of this study was to investigate our preliminary observations... - [Disability in schizophrenia. Intrinsic factors and prediction of psychosocial outcome. An analysis of literature]Bernardo Carpiniello
, Sezione di Psichiatria, , Via Liguria 13, 09127 Cagliari
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 11:45-58. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Disability shows a largely autonomous course respect to symptoms and has to be considered an independent parameter of outcome. Few intrinsic factors show a predictive role also in the long term... - Clinical and psychosocial outcome of patients affected by panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: results from a naturalistic follow-up studyBernardo Carpiniello
Department of Public Health Section of Psychiatry, University of Cagliari, Via Liguria, 13 09127, Cagliari, Italy
Eur Psychiatry 17:394-8. 2002....