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Gilberto Di Petta

5 papers in the library · 32 citations · publishing 2023-2025

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Psychedelics and ketamine/esketamine in depressive disorders: biological mechanisms and associated neuroimaging and clinical changes.

Transl Psychiatry October 31, 2025 Giacomo D’andrea, Stefania Chiappini, Laura Ciavoni et al. 3 citations

Psychedelics and ketamine/esketamine in depressive disorders: biological mechanisms and associated neuroimaging and clinical changes.

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) as a risk factor for psychosis: A systematic review of the literature

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews October 19, 2025 Alessio Mosca, Gianluca Mancusi, Stefania Chiappini et al. 6 citations

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are increasingly used by young individuals for their psychoactive effects and have been frequently associated with the emergence of psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, it remains unclear whether NPS use directly increases the risk of psychosis onset or whether individuals with a predisposition to psychosis are more likely to...

The Resurgence of Exogenous Psychosis: A Phenomenological Examination of Substance-Induced Psychopathology.

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease September 1, 2024 Valerio Ricci, Giuseppe Maina, Gilberto Di Petta et al.

The psychopathological manifestations associated with substance use, including induced psychotic experiences, are increasingly relevant but not well-understood within the medical community. Novel psychoactive substances and potentiated old compounds like cannabis and cocaine have emerged as a global concern, especially among adolescents and young adults. Transition rates from substance-induced...

Disembodiment and Affective Resonances in Esketamine Treatment of Depersonalized Depression Subtype: Two Case Studies.

Psychopathology 2024 Pietro Sarasso, Martina Billeci, Irene Ronga et al. 18 citations

Dissociative experiences are considered undesirable ketamine's adverse events. However, they might be crucial for ketamine's antidepressant effects, at least in some depression subtypes. Current understandings of ketamine's therapeutic potentials converge on the so-called "relaxed prior hypothesis," suggesting that glutamatergic blockage up-weights bottom-up surprising somatosensory/affective...

Phenomenology of psychiatric emergencies.

Frontiers in Psychology 2023 Stefano Goretti, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Gilberto Di Petta 5 citations

Psychiatric urgency is defined as a situation of serious mental suffering and behavioral alteration, which promptly requires adequate treatment; we talk about emergency when the condition can be life-threating. Even if until now neglected by phenomenological psychopathology, the emergency issue faces a clinical management challenge in which the phenomenological method becomes fundamental. The...