Publications by authors named "P La Rocca"
The present study aimed to investigate the causal relationships among cognitive impairment, psychopathology, and real-life functioning in a large sample of people with schizophrenia, using a data-driven causal discovery procedure based on partial ancestral graphs (PAGs). This method may provide additional insights for the identification of potential therapeutic targets to promote recovery in people with chronic schizophrenia. State-of-the-art instruments were used to assess the study variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSchizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar (BD) and major depression disorder (MDD) are severe psychiatric disorders that are challenging to treat, often leading to treatment resistance (TR). It is crucial to develop effective methods to identify and treat patients at risk of TR at an early stage in a personalized manner, considering their biological basis, their clinical and psychosocial characteristics. Effective translation of theoretical knowledge into clinical practice is essential for achieving this goal.
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- Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is linked to issues like emotional instability, impulsivity, and disrupted relationships, influenced by factors such as autonomic nervous system dysregulation and metabolic changes.
- Research indicates that altered heart rate variability and HPA axis dysregulation, often due to early trauma, increase chronic inflammation and cardiovascular risk among individuals with BPD.
- A review of 189 studies revealed key insights but had limitations, such as focusing on only one database and excluding non-English articles, suggesting a need for further research on this topic.
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- Many people with schizophrenia do worse than average on memory and thinking tests, even if they seem fine to others.
- Problems with thinking can happen before someone shows signs of schizophrenia and can still be present even when they’re feeling better.
- A group of experts looked at the latest research about how to help people with these thinking problems and made suggestions to improve mental health care.
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- The Letter reports the most accurate measurement so far of the matter-antimatter imbalance during Pb-Pb collisions at a high energy level of 5.02 TeV.
- It utilizes the Statistical Hadronization framework to determine precise values for the electric charge and baryon chemical potentials, μ_{Q} and μ_{B}.
- The analysis of antiparticle-to-particle yield ratios shows that the collisions create a system that is generally baryon-free and electrically neutral at midrapidity.