Michele Raja

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Country: Italy

Publications

  1. ncbi Thought disorder in Asperger syndrome and schizophrenia: issues in the differential diagnosis. A series of case reports
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome, Italy
    World J Biol Psychiatry 10:944-52. 2009
  2. ncbi Clozapine safety, 35 years later
    Michele Raja
    Centro Studi e Ricerche Gaetano Perusini, Rome, Italy
    Curr Drug Saf 6:164-84. 2011
  3. ncbi The impact of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder on the suicidal risk of patients with mood disorders
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Roma, Italia
    Psychopathology 40:184-90. 2007
  4. ncbi Suicide attempts: differences between unipolar and bipolar patients and among groups with different lethality risk
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Via Prisciano 26, 00136 Rome, Italy
    J Affect Disord 82:437-42. 2004
  5. ncbi Treatment of psychotic disorders with aripiprazole in the emergency psychiatric setting
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Psychiatr Danub 20:323-8. 2008
  6. ncbi Psychopharmacological treatment before suicide attempt among patients admitted to a psychiatric intensive care unit
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    J Affect Disord 113:37-44. 2009
  7. ncbi Are antidepressants warranted in the treatment of patients who present suicidal behavior?
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Hum Psychopharmacol 23:661-8. 2008
  8. ncbi Competence to consent to sexual activity in bipolar disorder and schizophrenic spectrum disorders
    Gabriele Mandarelli
    Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, University of Rome Sapienza, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189, Rome, Italy
    Arch Sex Behav 41:507-15. 2012
  9. ncbi Autistic spectrum disorders and schizophrenia in the adult psychiatric setting: diagnosis and comorbidity
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Via Prisciano 26, Rome, Italy
    Psychiatr Danub 22:514-21. 2010
  10. ncbi Sexual behavior and sexual problems among patients with severe chronic psychoses
    Michele Raja
    Service of Psychiatry, Santo Spirito Hospital, Mental Health Department ASL RM E, Via Prisciano, 26, 00136 Rome, Italy
    Eur Psychiatry 18:70-6. 2003

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Publications23

  1. ncbi Thought disorder in Asperger syndrome and schizophrenia: issues in the differential diagnosis. A series of case reports
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome, Italy
    World J Biol Psychiatry 10:944-52. 2009
    ..Recognizing and emphasizing the diagnosis of AS is not only important for clinicians to tailor the therapeutic strategy to the features of patients, but also for the patients and their relatives...
  2. ncbi Clozapine safety, 35 years later
    Michele Raja
    Centro Studi e Ricerche Gaetano Perusini, Rome, Italy
    Curr Drug Saf 6:164-84. 2011
    ..The neuropsychiatric side effects of clozapine are not discussed in this review...
  3. ncbi The impact of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder on the suicidal risk of patients with mood disorders
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Roma, Italia
    Psychopathology 40:184-90. 2007
    ..Personality disorders may modify the phenomenology of axis I psychiatric disorders, generating atypical clinical features, uncommon behavior or unusual patient attitudes...
  4. ncbi Suicide attempts: differences between unipolar and bipolar patients and among groups with different lethality risk
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Via Prisciano 26, 00136 Rome, Italy
    J Affect Disord 82:437-42. 2004
    ..The present naturalistic study aimed to distinguish between suicide attempts (SAs) of bipolar and unipolar patients, and among SAs characterized by different lethality risk...
  5. ncbi Treatment of psychotic disorders with aripiprazole in the emergency psychiatric setting
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Psychiatr Danub 20:323-8. 2008
    ..To assess the effectiveness of aripiprazole in the treatment of patients with psychotic symptoms in the emergency psychiatric setting...
  6. ncbi Psychopharmacological treatment before suicide attempt among patients admitted to a psychiatric intensive care unit
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    J Affect Disord 113:37-44. 2009
    ..It is difficult to assess the effectiveness of treatments in lowering suicide incidence...
  7. ncbi Are antidepressants warranted in the treatment of patients who present suicidal behavior?
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Hum Psychopharmacol 23:661-8. 2008
    ....
  8. ncbi Competence to consent to sexual activity in bipolar disorder and schizophrenic spectrum disorders
    Gabriele Mandarelli
    Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, University of Rome Sapienza, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189, Rome, Italy
    Arch Sex Behav 41:507-15. 2012
    ..quot; Our study suggests that patients with severe psychiatric disorders, especially those with cognitive dysfunction, might be at risk of incapacity to give valid sexual consent...
  9. ncbi Autistic spectrum disorders and schizophrenia in the adult psychiatric setting: diagnosis and comorbidity
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Via Prisciano 26, Rome, Italy
    Psychiatr Danub 22:514-21. 2010
    ....
  10. ncbi Sexual behavior and sexual problems among patients with severe chronic psychoses
    Michele Raja
    Service of Psychiatry, Santo Spirito Hospital, Mental Health Department ASL RM E, Via Prisciano, 26, 00136 Rome, Italy
    Eur Psychiatry 18:70-6. 2003
    ..Patients' compliance with contraceptive measures was poor...
  11. ncbi Improvement or worsening of psychotic symptoms after treatment with low doses of aripiprazole
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome, Italy
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 10:107-10. 2007
    ..Conversely, the effectiveness on negative symptoms seem consistent both in patients with or without antipsychotic response. A low dose may be indicated at the beginning of treatment to assess the kind of response...
  12. ncbi Oxcarbazepine vs. valproate in the treatment of mood and schizoaffective disorders
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome, Italy
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 6:409-14. 2003
    ..The assessment of global psychopathology and functioning, of positive and mood symptoms suggested similar efficacy of OXC and VPA. Unexpectedly, OXC appeared more efficacious in the treatment of negative symptoms...
  13. ncbi Impulsive and compulsive behaviors during dopamine replacement treatment in Parkinson's Disease and other disorders
    Michele Raja
    Centro Studi e Ricerche Gaetano Perusini, Rome, Italy
    Curr Drug Saf 7:63-75. 2012
    ..Psychological, spiritual, and ethical support (familial or individual) can help...
  14. ncbi Comparison of three antipsychotics in the emergency psychiatric setting
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Via Prisciano 26, Rome, Italy
    Hum Psychopharmacol 18:447-52. 2003
    ..Due to the methodological limitations of the study, these results must be considered preliminary and need confirmation...
  15. ncbi Lithium and kidney, 60 years later
    Michele Raja
    Centro Studi e Ricerche Gaetano Perusini, Rome, Italy
    Curr Drug Saf 6:291-303. 2011
    ..The aim of the paper is reviewing the renal safety profile of lithium and the suggested strategies in the management of the lithium associated renal side effects...
  16. ncbi Clinical management of obsessive-compulsive-bipolar comorbidity: a case series
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome, Italy
    Bipolar Disord 6:264-70. 2004
    ..To assess the clinical characteristics and the optimal treatment of obsessive compulsive symptoms in patients with familial background, current or past symptoms consistent with a bipolar spectrum diagnosis...
  17. ncbi Transient mania with hypersexuality after surgery for high frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease
    Luigi Michele Romito
    Istituto di Neurologia, , Roma, Italy
    Mov Disord 17:1371-4. 2002
    ..We describe 2 men who developed mania and hypersexuality a few days after the implant that lasted for some months and then gradually disappeared spontaneously...
  18. ncbi Diabetes is not a risk factor for tardive dyskinesia: a retrospective observational study
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Hum Psychopharmacol 17:61-3. 2002
    ..006; fd = 1; p = 0.937). These results suggest that diabetes is unlikely to play a major role in the pathogenesis of TD...
  19. ncbi AUTISM Spectrum Disorders and Suicidality
    Michele Raja
    Scuola di Specializzazione in Psichiatria, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Via Prisciano 26, 00136 Rome, Italy
    Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 7:97-105. 2011
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  20. ncbi Comorbidity of Asperger's syndrome and Bipolar disorder
    Michele Raja
    Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura, Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
    Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:26. 2008
    ..The aim of the paper is to show and discuss some troublesome and complex problems of the management of patients with AS and comorbid Bipolar Disorder (BD)...
  21. ncbi Post-traumatic stress disorder among people exposed to the Ventotene street disaster in Rome
    Michele Raja
    Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 4:5. 2008
    ..with child mourning or separation, previous stress, or familiarity for psychiatric disorders? 4) Does the exposition to trauma increase substance abuse or somatization? 5) Can episodic trauma cause long-lasting psychiatric morbidity?..
  22. ncbi Oxcarbazepine, risperidone and atenolol overdose with benign outcome
    Michele Raja
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 6:309-10. 2003
  23. ncbi Valproate-induced hyperammonaemia
    Michele Raja
    J Clin Psychopharmacol 22:631-3. 2002