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| Giovanni Abbate-DagaSummaryAffiliation: University of Turin Country: Italy Publications
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Emotions in eating disorders: changes of anger control after an emotion-focused day hospital treatmentGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Eating Disorders Center, Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, University of Turin, Italy
Eur Eat Disord Rev 20:496-501. 2012..This study aimed to investigate anger features in ED patients before and after an intensive day hospital (DH) specifically focused on emotions...
Psychosomatic syndromes and anorexia nervosaGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Centre, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 13:14. 2013..The aim of this study was to use the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) to assess psychosomatic syndromes in AN and to evaluate if psychosomatic syndromes could identify subgroups of AN patients...- Effectiveness of cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) in anorexia nervosa: a case seriesGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Program, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 34:1009-15. 2012..CRT was also associated with improvement of reflexive skills and awareness. These preliminary findings are promising, but further work is necessary to find ways of enhancing the effects of this treatment... 
Amenorrhea in eating disorders: poor stability of symptom after a one-year treatmentG Abbate Daga
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Centre, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Eat Weight Disord 17:e78-85. 2012..To examine whether patients with Eating Disorders (ED) who restore menses differ from those who remain amenorrheic after treatment and to provide longitudinal data about this debated criterion of Anorexia Nervosa (AN)...- Cognitive flexibility in verbal and nonverbal domains and decision making in anorexia nervosa patients: a pilot studyGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Eating Disorders Center, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 11:162. 2011..This paper aimed to investigate cognitive rigidity and decision making impairments in patients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa Restrictive type (AN-R), assessing also verbal components... - Attachment insecurity, personality, and body dissatisfaction in eating disordersGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Centre, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:520-4. 2010..This study supports the hypothesis that attachment insecurity is directly correlated with BD, core element in predicting and perpetuating EDs, independently of personality. Implications for treatment are discussed... - Eating problems and personality traits. An Italian pilot study among 992 high school studentsGiovanni Abbate Daga
Psichiatria Universitaria CPR DCA, Ospedale San Giovanni Battista Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, University of Turin, Italy
Eur Eat Disord Rev 15:471-8. 2007..To evaluate the prevalence of eating problems and to investigate personality traits associated with disturbed eating behaviours among Italian high school students... - Anger, depression and personality dimensions in patients with migraine without auraGiovanni Abbate Daga
Psychiatry Section, Department of Neuroscience, Ospedale San Giovanni Battista, Psichiatria Universitaria CPR DCA, Turin, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 76:122-8. 2007..The aim of this study was to identify whether migraine patients and controls share distinctive personality traits... - An attempt to understand the paradox of anorexia nervosa without drive for thinnessGiovanni Abbate Daga
Department of Neurosciences, Section of Psychiatry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 149:215-21. 2007..Implications for treatment are discussed... - Clinical, psychopathological and personality correlates of interoceptive awareness in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesitySecondo Fassino
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Eating Disorders Center, Turin University, Turin, Italy
Psychopathology 37:168-74. 2004.... - The dynamic relationship of parental personality traits with the personality and psychopathology traits of anorectic and bulimic daughtersSecondo Fassino
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Turin University School of Medicine, Turin, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 50:232-9. 2009..This study explored the personality and psychopathology of women with EDs and correlated them with parental personality traits... - Personality development characteristics of women with anorexia nervosa, their healthy siblings and healthy controls: What prevents and what relates to psychopathology?Federico Amianto
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, Turin University, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 187:401-8. 2011..High need for approval was independently related to psychopathological traits in anorexic siblings. Implications for prevention and treatment are discussed... - Personality profile of HIV outpatients: preliminary results and remarks on clinical managementSecondo Fassino
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 73:361-5. 2004..The present study assessed the personality traits of a heterogeneous group of seropositive subjects compared with healthy controls to determine specific temperament and character traits of this population... - Personality trait interactions in parents of patients with borderline personality disorder: a controlled study using the Temperament and Character InventorySecondo Fassino
Neurosciences Department, Psychiatry Section, University of Torino School of Medicine, Health Territorial District 3, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 165:128-36. 2009..The relationship between personality traits of borderline offspring and those of their parents may be related to both genetic transmission and family dynamics. Ramifications for treatment are discussed... - Factors related to severity of vomiting behaviors in bulimia nervosaGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatric Institute, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Torino, Italy
Psychiatry Res 134:75-84. 2005..Patients with a high frequency of vomiting need specific therapeutic interventions to enhance the character dimension of Self-Directedness... - Factors associated with dropout from treatment for eating disorders: a comprehensive literature reviewSecondo Fassino
Eating Disorders Centre, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 9:67. 2009..Dropout (DO) is common in the treatment of eating disorders (EDs), but the reasons for this phenomenon remain unclear. This study is an extensive review of the literature regarding DO predictors in EDs... - Mood, eating attitudes, and anger in obese women with and without Binge Eating DisorderSecondo Fassino
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, Psychiatry Institute, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
J Psychosom Res 54:559-66. 2003..The aim of this study was to evaluate the anger levels and their management in obese patients... - Dropout from brief psychotherapy within a combination treatment in bulimia nervosa: role of personality and angerSecondo Fassino
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, Turin University, Turin, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 72:203-10. 2003..To explore the personality, psychopathology, and clinical features of bulimic patients who do not complete psychotherapy, within a combined treatment... - Citalopram versus fluoxetine for the treatment of patients with bulimia nervosa: a single-blind randomized controlled trialPaolo Leombruni
Department of Neurosciences, Section of Psychiatry-University of Turin, S. Giovanni Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy
Adv Ther 23:481-94. 2006..Both treatments showed some effect on outcome measures, but efficacy profiles did not overlap. Citalopram may be useful in depressed patients with bulimia, whereas fluoxetine is more specific for those with introjected anger and bulimia... - Psychological predictors of outcome in vertical banded gastroplasty: a 6 months prospective pilot studyPaolo Leombruni
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy
Obes Surg 17:941-8. 2007..The aim of this study was to assess whether psychological presurgical variables can predict outcome of vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) in the short term... - Do anorectic men share personality traits with opiate dependent men? A case-control studyGiovanni Abbate-Daga
Neurosciences Department, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, University of Torino, Via Cherasco 11, 10127 Torino, Italy
Addict Behav 32:170-4. 2007..The co-diagnosis of a substance use disorder in male ED patients is frequent. Nevertheless, knowledge about the mutual predisposing factors or personality analogies is currently scarce and hypotheses are controversial... - The temperament and character inventory in women with migraineFranco Mongini
Department of Clinical Pathophysiology, Headache and Facial Pain Unit, University of Turin, Corso Dogliotti 14, I 10126, Turin, Italy
J Headache Pain 6:247-9. 2005..Our results show that in migraine the higher HA score could be partly associated to comorbid depression while the high P dimension seems to be solely related to the presence of migraine... - Supervised team management, with or without structured psychotherapy, in heavy users of a mental health service with borderline personality disorder: a two-year follow-up preliminary randomized studyFederico Amianto
Neurosciences Department, Psychiatry Section, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 11:181. 2011..Effectiveness was evaluated 6 times along a two-year follow-up... - Anorectic family dynamics: temperament and character dataSecondo Fassino
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Torino University School of Medicine, Turin, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 43:114-20. 2002..The TCI was useful in discriminating between normal controls and anorectic subjects, their parents, and the whole anorectic family... - [Eating psychopathology and personality in eating disorders]Secondo Fassino
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Universita di Torino, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Torino
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 12:293-300. 2003..The combination of psychopathology and personality research may shed a light upon the determinants of eating pathology... - A 12 to 24 weeks pilot study of sertraline treatment in obese women binge eatersPaolo Leombruni
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Turin University, and Centre for Eating Disorders, Az Ospedaliera San Giovanni Battista di Torino, Italy
Hum Psychopharmacol 21:181-8. 2006..Further studies are needed to confirm the usefulness of sertraline in the treatment of patients with BED and also in binge eaters with a less severe eating psychopathology... - Temperament and character profile of eating disorders: a controlled study with the Temperament and Character InventorySecondo Fassino
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Int J Eat Disord 32:412-25. 2002..A way to face this problem is to examine the personality traits underlying these disorders... - Baseline personality functioning correlates with 6 month outcome in schizophreniaSecondo Fassino
Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, University of Turin, V Cherasco 11, CAP 10126 Turin, Italy
Eur Psychiatry 18:93-100. 2003..The aim was to evaluate the outcome and related psychostructural and clinical factors in schizophrenic patients after they underwent 6 months of residential multimodal treatment... - Temperament and character in couples with fertility disorders: a double-blind, controlled studySecondo Fassino
Outpatient Service for Fertility Disorders, St Anna Hospital, Turin, Italy
Fertil Steril 77:1233-40. 2002..To evaluate the personality features of infertile patients... - Novelty-seeking in Parkinson's disease after deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus: a case-control studySecondo Fassino
Dept of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Institute, University of Turin, Via Cherasco Number 11, 10126, Torino, Italy
Psychosomatics 51:62-7. 2010..The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in Parkinson's disease (PD) is about 50%... - Does anger mediate between personality and eating symptoms in bulimia nervosa?Federico Amianto
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, Service for Eating Disorders, Turin University, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 200:502-12. 2012..Relational skills may represent a relevant target for the treatment of BN... - Neuroendocrine effects of citalopram infusion in anorexia nervosaValeria Mondelli
Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:1139-48. 2006....