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Gene-environment interaction and behavioral disorders: a developmental perspective based on endophenotypesMarco Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, 20127 Milan, Italy
Novartis Found Symp 293:31-41; discussion 41-7, 68-70. 2008..Nonetheless, we suggest that some endophenotypes can be helpful in investigating several instances of gene-environment interactions and be employed as additional tools to reduce the risk for spurious results in this controversial area...- An investigation of the co-occurrence of panic and somatization disorders through temperamental variablesM Battaglia
Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Psychosom Med 60:726-9. 1998..The relation of temperamental dimensions to somatization and panic disorders in women was investigated... 
A genetically informed study of the association between childhood separation anxiety, sensitivity to CO(2), panic disorder, and the effect of childhood parental lossMarco Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan 20127, Italy
Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:64-71. 2009..Childhood separation anxiety disorder can predate panic disorder, which usually begins in early adulthood. Both disorders are associated with heightened sensitivity to inhaled CO(2) and can be influenced by childhood parental loss...- A twin study of the common vulnerability between heightened sensitivity to hypercapnia and panic disorderMarco Battaglia
The Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:586-93. 2008..Environmental factors provide a modest--or no--contribution to the covariation of CO(2)-provoked anxiety with naturally occurring panic... - A genetic study of the acute anxious response to carbon dioxide stimulation in manMarco Battaglia
The Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University at the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, 20127 Milan, Italy
J Psychiatr Res 41:906-17. 2007..42 to 0.57. Genetic and idiosyncratic environmental factors explain most of individual differences in reactivity to hypercapnia. Within-family similarities for this trait are largely explained by genetic determinants... - Effect of the catechol-O-methyltransferase val(158)met genotype on children's early phases of facial stimuli processingM Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University at the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Genes Brain Behav 6:364-74. 2007..Different waveforms generated by face processing may have at least partially independent genetic architectures and yield different implications toward the understanding of individual differences in cognition and emotions... - Anxiety and panic: from human studies to animal research and backMarco Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 29:169-79. 2005..Finally, we review how animal models of human panic based on unconditioned provocation of alarm reactions by the same respiratory panicogens that are employed in man are viable and promising... - Influence of the serotonin transporter promoter gene and shyness on children's cerebral responses to facial expressionsMarco Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University at the Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:85-94. 2005..Childhood shyness can predate social anxiety disorder and may be associated with biased discrimination of facial expressions of emotions... - Modulation by muscarinic antagonists of the response to carbon dioxide challenge in panic disorderM Battaglia
Department of Psychology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:114-9. 2001..This study investigated whether the exaggerated response to carbon dioxide in panic disorder (PD) can be modulated by antagonists of muscarinic cholinergic receptors... - A psychometric-genetic study of schizotypal disorderM Battaglia
Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, Milan, Italy
Schizophr Res 37:53-64. 1999.... - Beyond the usual suspects: a cholinergic route for panic attacksMarco Battaglia
Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele Hospital, 20 via Stamira d Ancona, 20127 Milan, Italy
Mol Psychiatry 7:239-46. 2002.... - Children's discrimination of expressions of emotions: relationship with indices of social anxiety and shynessMarco Battaglia
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:358-65. 2004..To conduct an exploratory investigation of possible relationships between individual levels of social anxiety and the ability to classify emotional expressions in a group of schoolchildren observing pictures of children of similar age... - A general population twin study of the CBCL/6-18 DSM-oriented scalesChiara A M Spatola
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute, San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:619-27. 2007..To explore the contributions of genetic and environmental influences to individual variation and covariation of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) DSM-oriented scales (DOS) originally proposed by Achenbach and associates in 2001... - The co-occurrence between internalizing and externalizing behaviors. A general population twin studyPaola Pesenti-Gritti
Dept of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, 20 via Stamira d Ancona, 20127 Milan, Italy
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 17:82-92. 2008.... - Taxonic structure of schizotypal personality disorder: a multiple-instrument, multi-sample study based on mixture modelsAndrea Fossati
Faculty of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, via Stamira D Ancona, 20, 20127 Milan, Italy
Psychiatry Res 137:71-85. 2005..Similar findings were observed in Study 3, in which the SIDP-R was administered to 225 non-clinical subjects. The results show that the typology of DSM III-R and -IV SPD diagnosis is consistent with the latent structure of SPD features... - Genetic and environmental influences on anxiety dimensions in Italian twins evaluated with the SCARED questionnaireAnna Ogliari
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute, San Raffaele University at the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
J Anxiety Disord 20:760-77. 2006..The DSM-IV anxiety dimensions identified by the SCARED have a psychometric structure that can be replicated in the Italian culture, and are influenced at different extents by genetic and nonshared environmental determinants... - The relationships between adverse events, early antecedents, and carbon dioxide reactivity as an intermediate phenotype of panic disorder: a general population studyAnna Ogliari
Department of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 79:48-55. 2010.... - The role of genes and environment in shaping co-occurrence of DSM-IV defined anxiety dimensions among Italian twins aged 8-17Anna Ogliari
The Academic Centre for the Study of Behavioural Plasticity, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
J Anxiety Disord 24:433-9. 2010.... - Genetic and environmental influences upon the CBCL/6-18 DSM-oriented scales: similarities and differences across three different computational approaches and two age rangesChiara A M Spatola
The Academic Centre for the Study of Behavioural Plasticity, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, 20 via Stamira d Ancona, Milan, Italy
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 19:647-58. 2010..Analysing the same set of data with different analytic approaches leads to better-balanced views on the aetiology of psychopathological behaviours in the developmental years... - Reliability and validity of the Italian version of the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised in an outpatient sampleAndrea Fossati
School of Psychology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, 20127 Milan, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 48:380-7. 2007..The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) in an outpatient sample... - Clumsiness and psychopathology: causation or shared etiology? A twin study with the CBCL 6-18 questionnaire in a general school-age population sampleSara Moruzzi
The Academic Centre for the Study of Behavioural Plasticity, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Hum Mov Sci 29:326-38. 2010..Twin bivariate analyses showed that the co-occurrence of motor problems and Anxiety/ADH Problems is best explained by genetic factors shared between Clumsiness and the behavioral problems phenotypes... - Socioeconomic status mediates the genetic contribution of the dopamine receptor D4 and serotonin transporter linked promoter region repeat polymorphisms to externalization in preadolescenceMaria Nobile
Child Psychiatry Department, Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, Bosisio Parini 23842 LC, Italy
Dev Psychopathol 19:1147-60. 2007.... - A family-based association study does not support DYX1C1 on 15q21.3 as a candidate gene in developmental dyslexiaCecilia Marino
Department of Child Psychiatry, Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, via Don L Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini, Italy
Eur J Hum Genet 13:491-9. 2005..While D1X1C1 is a good candidate gene for DD, we were unable to replicate the original findings between DYX1C1 gene and DD, perhaps due to genetic heterogeneity... - A case-control and family-based association study of the 5-HTTLPR in pediatric-onset depressive disordersMaria Nobile
Child Psychiatry Unit, Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute, Bosisio, Parini, Italy
Biol Psychiatry 56:292-5. 2004.... - Impulsivity in depressed children and adolescents: a comparison between behavioral and neuropsychological dataMaria G Cataldo
Child Psychiatry Unit, Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini LC, Italy
Psychiatry Res 136:123-33. 2005..Symptom severity (Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression) and subjective mood state (Children's Depression Inventory) were also taken into account... - An assessment of transmission disequilibrium between quantitative measures of childhood problem behaviors and DRD2/Taql and DRD4/48bp-repeat polymorphismsCecilia Marino
The Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute, Department of Child Psychiatry, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy
Behav Genet 34:495-502. 2004..44). Although preliminary, these findings are consistent with previous data that suggest a role of the same polymorphism in influencing individual sensitivity to reward and response to social cues and reinforcements in man and animal...