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Rationale and design of an independent randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of aripiprazole or haloperidol in combination with clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophreniaMichela Nose
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Italy
Trials 10:31. 2009....
Neuropsychiatric symptoms underlying caregiver stress and insight in Alzheimer's diseasePaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 30:57-63. 2010..The aims of our study were to explore the validity of this approach on caregiver burden, lack of insight and cognitive impairment and to examine the impact of neuropsychiatric profiles on these variables...
Neuropsychological correlates of reality distortion in schizophrenic patientsPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 145:49-60. 2006....
Risperidone, olanzapine and quetiapine in the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease: preliminary findings from a naturalistic, retrospective studyPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:622-9. 2007..No significant differences emerged among treatments. The preliminary results also suggest that baseline cognitive function might influence treatment response...
Correlations of attitudes toward antipsychotic drugs with insight and objective psychopathology in schizophreniaPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 49:170-6. 2008..The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationships between attitudes toward antipsychotics, insight, and other clinical variables in stable schizophrenia...
Relative contribution of antipsychotics, negative symptoms and executive functions to social functioning in stable schizophreniaPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Psychiatry, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 33:373-9. 2009..Furthermore, social functioning appears a complex outcome multiply determined with no single predictor variable explaining a sufficient amount of variance...
Outcome and length of stay in psychiatric hospitalization, the experience of the University Clinic of TurinPaola Rocca
Psychiatric Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126, Turin, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45:603-10. 2010..Given the current tendency to shorten psychiatric hospitalization and change its organization, an issue could be raised regarding its outcomes...
Quality of life and psychopathology during the course of schizophreniaPaola Rocca
Psychiatric Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 50:542-8. 2009..This study evaluated a population of outpatients with stable schizophrenia to analyze if relationships between patterns of symptomatology and quality of life (QOL) change during the time course of illness...
Relative contributions of psychotic symptoms and insight to quality of life in stable schizophreniaPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 177:71-6. 2010..Different dimensions of insight could be related to different aspects of outcome, and this would need to be reflected in rehabilitation programs...
Managing the aggressive and violent patient in the psychiatric emergencyPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Psychiatry, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 30:586-98. 2006..Based on rather limited evidence, a wide variety of medications for the pharmacological treatment of acute aggression has been recommended: typical and atypical antipsychotics and benzodiazepines...
Depressive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: different effects on clinical featuresPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Psychiatry, University of Turin, 10126 Torino, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 46:304-10. 2005..We also analyzed whether depressive and negative symptoms presented different patterns of predictors...
Citalopram versus sertraline in late-life nonmajor clinically significant depression: a 1-year follow-up clinical trialPaola Rocca
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco, 11 10126 Turin, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 66:360-9. 2005....
A comparison of paroxetine versus paroxetine plus amisulpride in the treatment of dysthymic disorder: efficacy and psychosocial outcomesPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, Italy
Psychiatry Res 112:145-52. 2002..Both treatments appeared to be effective in our sample of dysthymic subjects. Combined treatment with paroxetine and amisulpride resulted in a better outcome in terms of social functioning...
Predictors of psychiatric disorders in liver transplantation candidates: logistic regression modelsPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Italy
Liver Transpl 9:721-6. 2003..Severity of liver disease emerges as the most important variable in predicting severity of psychiatric disorders in these patients...
Decrease of the D4 dopamine receptor messenger RNA expression in lymphocytes from patients with major depressionPaola Rocc
Psychiatric Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 26:1155-60. 2002..A tempting approach to examine alterations of dopaminergic system in major depression is to examine the expression of dopamine receptors in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)...
Oral risperidone, olanzapine and quetiapine versus haloperidol in psychotic agitationVincenzo Villari
Emergency Department, Psychiatric Emergency Service, S Giovanni Hospital, Corso Bramante 88, 10126 Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 32:405-13. 2008..GENERAL METHODS: We recruited 101 patients with acute psychosis who were admitted at the Mental Health Department 1 South of Turin, Psychiatric Emergency Service of San Giovanni Battista Hospital, from June 2004 to June 2005...
Relationships of age at onset with clinical features and cognitive functions in a sample of schizophrenia patientsSilvio Bellino
Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 65:908-14. 2004....
Cognitive function and competitive employment in schizophrenia: relative contribution of insight and psychopathologyMichela Giugiario
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:553-61. 2012....
Predictors of compulsory admission in schizophrenia-spectrum patients: excitement, insight, emotion perceptionCristiana Montemagni
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 35:137-45. 2011....
Naturalistic, retrospective comparison between second-generation antipsychotics and depot neuroleptics in patients affected by schizophreniaLivio Marchiaro
Department of Mental Health Turin 1 South, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1423-31. 2005..0112). CONCLUSION: These findings confirm at least equal long-term effectiveness of depot neuroleptics and SGAs, but a possible advantage for SGAs in decreased use of anticholinergic drugs...
A comparison of paroxetine and amisulpride in the treatment of dysthymic disorderPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Torino, Italy
J Affect Disord 70:313-7. 2002..The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary data on the effects of paroxetine and amisulpride on depressive dimensions, analyzed by factor analysis, in dysthymic patients...
Compulsory admissions of emergency psychiatric inpatients in Turin: the role of diagnosisCristiana Montemagni
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 39:288-94. 2012..Finally, the study was carried out at a single facility. Much of the increased CA likelihood in diagnostic categories might be attributable to specific symptom patterns, not to patients' severity of illness or diagnosis per se...
Donepezil in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: long-term efficacy and safetyPaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 26:369-73. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Donepezil improved cognition and global functioning and was well tolerated especially considered the long duration of the observation period...
Nonlinear analysis of electroencephalogram at rest and during cognitive tasks in patients with schizophreniaElisa Carlino
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, and National Institute of Neuroscience, Turin, Italy
J Psychiatry Neurosci 37:259-66. 2012..g., resting state and mathematical task) and normal and pathologic brain activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate nonlinear EEG activity in patients with schizophrenia...
Treatment of borderline personality disorder with risperidonePaola Rocca
Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
J Clin Psychiatry 63:241-4. 2002..Our purpose was to assess the efficacy of risperidone in BPD, focusing on its effects on impulsive-aggressive behavior...
Prosody recognition and audiovisual emotion matching in schizophrenia: The contribution of cognition and psychopathologyFilomena Castagna
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Section, University of Turin, Via Cherasco, 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
Psychiatry Res 205:192-8. 2013..These emotion recognition deficits, rather than being associated purely with emotion perception disturbances in schizophrenia, are affected by core symptoms of the illness...
Receptor-mediated radionuclide therapy with 90Y-DOTATOC in association with amino acid infusion: a phase I studyLisa Bodei
Division of Nuclear Medicine, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30:207-16. 2003..The way forward with this treatment would seem to be to identify more effective renal protective agents, in order to be able to increase the cumulative injectable activity and hence tumour dose...
