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| Stefano PallantiSummaryAffiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione Country: Italy Publications
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A qualitative analysis of nonresponse: management of treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorderStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 65:6-10. 2004..More results are needed before the effectiveness of the nonpharmacologic treatments for OCD can be determined...
European consensus statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD: The European Network Adult ADHDSandra J J Kooij
PsyQ, psycho medische programma s, Department Adult ADHD, Carel Reinierszkade 197, Den Haag, The Netherlands
BMC Psychiatry 10:67. 2010..The evidence on persistence poses several difficulties for adult psychiatry considering the lack of expertise for diagnostic assessment, limited treatment options and patient facilities across Europe...
The Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire and the Internet Addiction Scale in the assessment of multiple addictions in a high-school population: prevalence and related disabilityStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Neuroscience, Florence University of Medicine, Florence, Italy
CNS Spectr 11:966-74. 2006....
Lithium and valproate treatment of pathological gambling: a randomized single-blind studyStefano Pallanti
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 63:559-64. 2002..The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lithium and valproate in nonbipolar pathological gamblers...
Serotonin dysfunction in pathological gamblers: increased prolactin response to oral m-CPP versus placeboStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Neuroscience, Florence University of Medicine, Florence, Italy
CNS Spectr 11:956-64. 2006..Moreover, the relationship between neuroendocrine outcome and clinical severity has been assessed...
Motor cortex excitability correlates with novelty seeking in social anxiety: a transcranial magnetic stimulation investigationStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50137 Florence, Italy
J Neurol 257:1362-8. 2010..Furthermore, these data suggest that "trait variables" (i.e., NS) are more closely related to neurophysiological measures than SAD symptoms, which represent "state variables" linked to social performance...
Positron emission tomography imaging of risperidone augmentation in serotonin reuptake inhibitor-refractory patientsMonte S Buchsbaum
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Neuropsychobiology 53:157-68. 2006..Our results are consistent with a frontostriatal circuit change related to both dopaminergic and serotonergic systems and with the presence of psychopharmacological subtypes within OCD...
FDG-PET study in pathological gamblers. 1. Lithium increases orbitofrontal, dorsolateral and cingulate metabolismEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Neuropsychobiology 58:37-47. 2008..Although mood stabilizers and serotonin reuptake inhibitors have shown some efficacy in the treatment of this condition, there is little known about how these pharmacological interventions work...
Basal Ganglia activity in pathological gambling: a fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography studyStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Neuropsychobiology 62:132-8. 2010..We extended our studies to include functional alterations of the striatum and thalamus in a cohort of patients with PG before and after treatment with lithium...
Ondansetron augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary, single-blind, prospective studyStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
CNS Drugs 23:1047-55. 2009..Trial registration number (ClinicalTrials.gov): NCT00796497...
Risperidone augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: a double-blind, placebo-controlled studyEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 6:397-401. 2003..Risperidone may be an effective and well-tolerated augmentation strategy in treatment-resistant OCD subjects, but larger sample size studies are required to demonstrate this...
Pharmacological treatments of pathological gamblingEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1230, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY, USA
J Gambl Stud 21:99-110. 2005..This review focuses on recent research examining the treatment of pathological gambling and highlights methodological challenges for future studies...
Does sustained-release lithium reduce impulsive gambling and affective instability versus placebo in pathological gamblers with bipolar spectrum disorders?Eric Hollander
Compulsive, Impulsive, and Anxiety Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:137-45. 2005..To the authors' knowledge, this is the first placebo-controlled treatment study in pathological gamblers with bipolar spectrum disorders; it compares sustained-release lithium carbonate to placebo...
Reliability and validity of the pathological gambling adaptation of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (PG-YBOCS)Stefano Pallanti
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Gambl Stud 21:431-43. 2005..PG-YBOCS thus appears to be a reliable and valid measure of pathological gambling severity, and can be regarded as an important tool for clinicians and researchers treating pathological gamblers...
Response acceleration with mirtazapine augmentation of citalopram in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients without comorbid depression: a pilot studyStefano Pallanti
Institute for Neurosciences, Florence, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 65:1394-9. 2004..The present study was undertaken to determine whether the mirtazapine-citalopram combination could induce an earlier and/or greater effect on the 5-HT system in OCD subjects than citalopram alone...
Serotonin function in pathological gambling: blunted growth hormone response to sumatriptanStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Psychopharmacol 24:1802-9. 2010..These results, together with those obtained in our previous serotoninergic challenge study, document the presence of a serotonergic dysfunction in pathological gamblers similar to that reported in alcoholics...
Bipolar disorder and comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A distinct clinical phenotype? Clinical characteristics and temperamental traitsSilvia Bernardi
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 10029, USA
World J Biol Psychiatry 11:656-66. 2010..We further hypothesize that maladaptive temperament will be associated with the severity of both illnesses...
Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of topiramate augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorderHeather A Berlin
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Pl, New York, NY, 10029 USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:716-21. 2011..Topiramate inhibits glutamatergic conduction...
Treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: methodological issues, operational definitions and therapeutic linesStefano Pallanti
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 30:400-12. 2006..The authors reviewed also the more recent therapeutic pharmacological and psychological lines for the treatment of refractoriness in OCD...
Nefazodone treatment of pathological gambling: a prospective open-label controlled trialStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 63:1034-9. 2002..Side effects (dry mouth and sedation) of moderate severity occurred in 4 subjects. CONCLUSION: These preliminary results suggest that nefazodone may be effective in reducing symptoms of pathological gambling and is well tolerated...
rTMS age-dependent response in treatment-resistant depressed subjects: a mini-reviewStefano Pallanti
1University of Florence, Florence, Italy
CNS Spectr 17:24-30. 2012..The aim of our study was to retest the effectiveness and safety of low-frequency rTMS in a 3 weeks active treatment in a group of resistant-depressed patients, and to investigate the role of age in the response to stimulation treatment...
Internet addiction: a descriptive clinical study focusing on comorbidities and dissociative symptomsSilvia Bernardi
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Manhattan, NY, USA
Compr Psychiatry 50:510-6. 2009..The detachment has been suggested as a reason for the attractiveness of the Internet; thus, we assessed dissociative symptoms and their association with IAD disability...
Imaging monetary reward in pathological gamblersEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, Box 1230, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
World J Biol Psychiatry 6:113-20. 2005....
Social anxiety in outpatients with schizophrenia: a relevant cause of disabilityStefano Pallanti
Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Italy
Am J Psychiatry 161:53-8. 2004....
Treatment non-response in OCD: methodological issues and operational definitionsStefano Pallanti
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 5:181-91. 2002..Better characterization of which patients respond and do not respond to various treatments will enable more accurate clustering of patients, and help facilitate multi-site data collection for future research trials...
The relationship between impulse-control disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder: a current understanding and future research directionsMarc Nicholas Potenza
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Room S 104, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Psychiatry Res 170:22-31. 2009..Available data indicate substantial differences between ICDs and OCD that suggest independent categorizations. Existing research gaps are identified and avenues for future research suggested...
Psychoneuroimmunodermatology of atopic dermatitis: from empiric data to the evolutionary hypothesisStefano Pallanti
Institute of Neuroscience, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dermatol Clin 23:695-701. 2005..quot; The Darwinian framework and the mental scenario are examined. These processes may be akin to the generation of antibodies by the immune system...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder spectrum as a scientific "metaphor"Stefano Pallanti
Strategic Center of Excellence of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
CNS Spectr 13:6-15. 2008..By increasing research in this field, the OCD spectrum may evolve from a fragmented level of conceptualization as a "metaphor" to one that is more comprehensive and structured...
Fronto-thalamo-striatal gray and white matter volumes and anisotropy of their connections in bipolar spectrum illnessesM Mehmet Haznedar
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 6574, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:733-42. 2005....
Diagnosis and treatment of pathologic gamblingErica D Sood
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 5:9-15. 2003..This review focuses on recent research examining the neurobiology and treatment of PG...
Complex repetitive behavior: punding after bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's diseaseStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 16:376-80. 2010..Those findings suggest that punding might be induced by STN DBS, and its rate of occurrence in DBS population seems to be more common than previously suspected...
Obsessive compulsive disorder comorbidity in DBAStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:6. 2008....
Brain plasticity and brain stimulation in neuropsychiatry: toward individualized medicineStefano Pallanti
Strategic Center of Excellence of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
CNS Spectr 13:287-92. 2008
Neurobiology of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of anxiety: a critical reviewStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 24:163-73. 2009..The neurobiological correlates suggest possible efficacy for the treatment of social anxiety that still has to be investigated...
Refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: state-of-the-art treatmentEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, Compulsive, Impulsive, and Anxiety Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 63:20-9. 2002..The authors synthesize state-of-the-art treatment and give practical advice for clinicians...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity: clinical assessment and therapeutic implicationsStefano Pallanti
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
Front Psychiatry 2:70. 2011....
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders: diagnostic and dimensional issuesEric Hollander
Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
CNS Spectr 12:5-13. 2007..Advantages and disadvantages of establishing OCSDs and its implications for diagnosis, treatment, and research are discussed...
Citalopram intravenous infusion in resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: an open trialStefano Pallanti
Istituto di Neuroscienze, and University of Florence, School of Medicine, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 63:796-801. 2002..The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalopram is effective for OCD when administered orally. We investigated whether intravenous citalopram would rapidly benefit OCD patients unresponsive to orally administered SRIs...
Sustained response versus relapse: the pharmacotherapeutic goal for obsessive-compulsive disorderNaomi A Fineberg
Postgraduate School of Medicine, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 22:313-22. 2007..Viewed collectively, these results suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are effective long-term treatments and relapse prevention represents the treatment target for obsessive-compulsive disorder...
Kleptomania: clinical features and comorbidity in an Italian sampleSilvio Presta
Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Neurobiologia, Farmacologia e Biotecnologie, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 43:7-12. 2002..Family history also showed a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders. Our study indicates clear connections between kleptomania and different psychiatric disorders, the exact nature of which has yet to be clarified...
Transcultural observations of obsessive-compulsive disorderStefano Pallanti
Am J Psychiatry 165:169-70. 2008
