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Affective temperaments in heroin addictionIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa Italy
J Affect Disord 117:186-92. 2009..Much of the literature has described personality disorder constructs for heroin addicts. Building on previous work we examine the relevance of affective temperament measures in these patients...
Clinical presentations of substance abuse in bipolar heroin addicts at time of treatment entryIcro Maremmani
Vincent P, Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Neurosciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, EU, Italy
Ann Gen Psychiatry 11:23. 2012..abstract:..
Differential substance abuse patterns distribute according to gender in heroin addictsIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Italy
J Psychoactive Drugs 42:89-95. 2010..This latter pattern seems to result in an increased risk for fatal accidental overdoses. The use of these longer-acting agents in women may be influenced by psychosocial and hormonal factors...- Long-term outcomes of treatment-resistant heroin addicts with and without DSM-IV axis I psychiatric comorbidity (dual diagnosis)Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Italy
Eur Addict Res 14:134-42. 2008..The aim of this study was to compare the long-term outcomes of treatment-resistant heroin addicts with and without DSM-IV axis I psychiatric comorbidity (dual diagnosis)... - Use of street methadone in italian heroin addicts presenting for opioid agonist treatmentIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Via Roma, 67 56100 Pisa, Italy
J Addict Dis 28:382-8. 2009..This should be accounted for when deciding on take-home policies and issues of potential methadone diversion... - Subtyping patients with heroin addiction at treatment entry: factor derived from the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SCL-90)Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ann Gen Psychiatry 9:15. 2010..CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the hypothesis that mood, anxiety and impulse-control dysregulation are the core of the clinical phenomenology of addiction and should be incorporated into its nosology... - Mood stabilizers in the treatment of substance use disordersIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
CNS Spectr 15:95-109. 2010..Valproate appears to be a potentially fruitful medication to study in these dual diagnosis patients due to preliminary evidence demonstrating its anticraving efficacy... - TEMPS-A[p] temperament profile related to professional choice: A study in 1548 applicants to become a cadet officer in the Italian air forceIcro Maremmani
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, 67 56100 Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 124:314-8. 2010..Thus, depressive traits seem to increase sensitivity to suffering, cyclothymic traits appear relevant to creativity, and hyperthymic traits have been implicated in territoriality and leadership and more generally in active pursuits... - Buprenorphine-based regimens and methadone for the medical management of opioid dependence: selecting the appropriate drug for treatmentIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Am J Addict 19:557-68. 2010..Although methadone remains an essential maintenance therapy option, buprenorphine-based regimens increase access to care and provide safer, more appropriate treatment than methadone for some patients... - Discriminant and convergent validity of TEMPS-A[P] correlation with MMPI and the emotional-affective state following a stressful situationIcro Maremmani
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 129:27-33. 2011.... - Substance use and quality of life over 12 months among buprenorphine maintenance-treated and methadone maintenance-treated heroin-addicted patientsIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Research Team, Department of Psychiatry NPB, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
J Subst Abuse Treat 33:91-8. 2007..This study suggests the long-term efficacy of methadone treatment and buprenorphine treatment on symptoms of opioid addiction and quality of life... - Temperamental traits of women applying for a type of job that has been characterized historically by male identity: the military career as case studyIcro Maremmani
Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 130:275-9. 2011..In this study we inquire into the question whether gender differences in temperament have continued unchanged in a field, such as the military career, that has been historically characterized by a male identity... - Dual diagnosis and chronology of illness in treatment-seeking Italian patients dependent on heroinAngelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy
J Addict Dis 30:123-35. 2011..When treating patients with a dual diagnosis, clinicians should ensure that the same attention is given to the treatment of drug dependence as it is to the treatment of comorbid psychiatric conditions... - Do methadone and buprenorphine have the same impact on psychopathological symptoms of heroin addicts?Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Vincent P, Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ann Gen Psychiatry 10:17. 2011..In the present report we compared the effects of buprenorphine and methadone on the psychopathological symptoms of 213 patients (106 on buprenorphine and 107 on methadone) in a follow-up study lasting 12 months... - Are "social drugs" (tobacco, coffee and chocolate) related to the bipolar spectrum?Icro Maremmani
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa and G De Lisio Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 133:227-33. 2011..These substances, notably caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and chocolate, can be labeled 'social drugs'... - Alcohol and cocaine use and abuse among opioid addicts engaged in a methadone maintenance treatment programIcro Maremmani
Department of Psychiatry NPB, University of Pisa, Pisa, 56100, Italy
J Addict Dis 26:61-70. 2007..Cessation of illicit opioid abuse and retention in treatment are positively correlated with decrease in alcohol and cocaine abuse and the absence of the psychosocial complications associated with such abuse... - Cocaine abuse and the bipolar spectrum in 1090 heroin addicts: clinical observations and a proposed pathophysiologic modelIcro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Team, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 106:55-61. 2008..This topic required further examination among heroin abusers because cocaine abuse is commonly comorbid with heroin abuse... - Discriminative hypomania checklist-32 factors in unipolar and bipolar major depressive patientsGiulio Perugi
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Psychopathology 45:390-8. 2012..The Hypomania Checklist-32 (HCL-32) has therefore been developed and tested internationally to facilitate BD recognition... - Toward a unitary perspective on the bipolar spectrum and substance abuse: opiate addiction as a paradigmIcro Maremmani
Santa Chiara University Hospital, Psychiatric Unit 1, University of Pisa, Italy, EU
J Affect Disord 93:1-12. 2006..We therefore submit that the present conceptualization of the link between bipolar spectrum and addictive disorders has not only heuristic and scientific values, but also an important message for the clinician... - Is the bipolar spectrum the psychopathological substrate of suicidality in heroin addicts?Icro Maremmani
Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Psychopathology 40:269-77. 2007..To describe the prevalence and the risk factors of suicidal ideation in a cohort of Italian opioid addicts presenting for treatment... - Negative dimension in psychiatry. Amotivational syndrome as a paradigm of negative symptoms in substance abuseLuca Rovai
Department of Psychiatry NFB, University of Pisa, Italy
Riv Psichiatr 48:1-9. 2013.... - Correlations between awareness of illness (insight) and history of addiction in heroin-addicted patientsAngelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa Pisa, Italy
Front Psychiatry 3:61. 2012..Methodologies to improve the insight of patients should, therefore, be targeted more directly on patients early in their history of heroin dependence, because the risk of lack of insight is greatest during this period... - QTc interval prolongation in patients on long-term methadone maintenance therapyIcro Maremmani
PISA SIA Study and Intervention on Addictions Group Santa Chiara, University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NFB, University of Pisa, Italy
Eur Addict Res 11:44-9. 2005.... - Discriminant and convergent validity of TEMPS-A[P]. Correlation with Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ32) during a stressful situationLuca Rovai
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Via Roma, 67 56100 Pisa, EU, Italy
J Affect Disord 146:142-5. 2013..The Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Questionnaire (TEMPS) has, in its self and rater-wise evaluation form, been designed to evaluate temperamental characteristics in clinical and non-clinical populations... - Symptomatological features of patients with and without Ecstasy use during their first psychotic episodeFabio Rugani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Neurosciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Int J Environ Res Public Health 9:2283-92. 2012..Despite this desired and frequently realized outcome, Ecstasy use has often resulted in the genesis of psychotic symptoms and aggressive behaviors, particularly after chronic and/or intensive use... - Long-term γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and disulfiram combination therapy in GHB treatment-resistant chronic alcoholicsAngelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Via Roma, 67 56100 Pisa, Italy
Int J Environ Res Public Health 8:2816-27. 2011..The results of this study seem to indicate a higher efficacy of the GHB-disulfiram association compared with GHB alone. Randomized controlled trials are now needed to verify this hypothesis... - Clonazepam as agonist substitution treatment for benzodiazepine dependence: a case reportAngelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Santa Chiara University Hospital, University of Pisa, Via Roma, 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy Association for the Application of Neuroscientific Knowledge to Social Aims AU CNS, Lucca, 55045 Pietrasanta, Italy
Case Rep Psychiatry 2013:367594. 2013.... - TEMPS-A[P] temperament profile related to professional choice. Differences between applicants to become a cadet officer in the Italian Air Force or NavyLuca Rovai
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 145:106-10. 2013..Temperament appears to be a factor involved in professional attitudes. The most impressive findings are those on the importance of cyclothymia in art and of hyperthymia in leadership... - Alcohol abuse in social phobic patients: is there a bipolar connection?Giulio Perugi
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy
J Affect Disord 68:33-9. 2002.... - Can ropinirole modulate reinforcing subjective effects of cocaine in humans?Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani
Vincent P Dole Dual Diagnosis Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, NPB, University of Pisa Pisa, Italy
Front Psychiatry 2:50. 2011..Ropinirole does diminish the subjective intensity of an expected cocaine rush, so interfering with the dynamics of reward, while supporting its possible use in the treatment of cocaine dependence... - Prevalence and diagnostic distribution of medically unexplained painful somatic symptoms across 571 major depressed outpatientsMichele Fornaro
Department of Neurosciences, Section of Psychiatry, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 7:217-21. 2011..To assess the prevalence and distribution of medically unexplained painful somatic symptoms (PSSs) versus nonpainful somatic symptoms (NPSSs) in patients diagnosed with major depressive episode (MDE)... - Is unipolar mania a distinct subtype?Giulio Perugi
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 48:213-7. 2007..Literature on this topic is still scarce, although this was a matter of debate since several decades... - Diagnostic and symptomatological features in chronic psychotic patients according to cannabis use statusIcro Maremmani
Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Italy
J Psychoactive Drugs 36:235-41. 2004..These data indicate that chronic, psychosis, whether associated with past or with current use of cannabis, is frequently associated with bipolar spectrum disorders and tends to display less blunted affect and more clastic behavior... - Lifetime mood symptoms and adult separation anxiety in patients with complicated grief and/or post-traumatic stress disorder: a preliminary reportLiliana Dell'Osso
Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Psychiatry Res 198:436-40. 2012..No significant differences were reported in the WSAS scores. Our results support differences between CG and PTSD that are important for the consideration of including CG as a new disorder in the DSM-V... - [Psycho(patho)logy of "addiction." Interpretative hypothesis]Icro Maremmani
PISA SIA Study and Intervention on Addictions Group, Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Neurobiologia, Farmacologia e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi, Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa
Ann Ist Super Sanita 38:241-57. 2002..Our integrated model especially accounts for the issue of mood disorders as the a weightsome psychic substrate for the development of a substance-resorting attitude... - Affective temperament traits measured by TEMPS-I and emotional-behavioral problems in clinically-well children, adolescents, and young adultsSalvatore Signoretta
Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Carrara, Italy
J Affect Disord 85:169-80. 2005..The cyclothymic disposition turned out to be the most 'morbid', and associated with both internalizing and externalizing disturbances... - Comparison between heroin and heroin-cocaine polyabusers: a psychopathological studyAdolfo Bandettini di Poggio
Department of Human Morphology and Applied Biology, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1074:438-45. 2006..Results show a direct relationship between cocaine abuse and a higher rate of psychiatric disorders, but a negative correlation with the severity of self-rated psychopathology...