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Marianna Mazza

5 papers in the library · 30 citations · publishing 2018-2024

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New pharmacotherapies to tackle the unmet needs in bipolar disorder: a focus on acute suicidality.

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy March 1, 2024 Georgios D Kotzalidis, Federica Fiaschè, Alessandro Alcibiade et al. 3 citations

Suicidal behavior is relatively frequent in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and constitutes their most frequent cause of death. Suicide rates remain high in patients with BD despite adherence to guidelines recommending lithium as first line, and/or antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychotherapy, psychosocial interventions, and electroconvulsive therapy. Hence the need to identify more...

MDMA-Based Psychotherapy in Treatment-Resistant Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Brief Narrative Overview of Current Evidence

Diseases November 3, 2023 Kainat Riaz, Sejal Suneel, Mohammad Hamza Bin Abdul Malik et al. 16 citations

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental health disorder that causes significant dysfunction in individuals. Currently, there are many approved pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy treatment options for PTSD, but unfortunately, half of the patients do not respond to traditional therapies. In this article, we review clinical trials and research on...

Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Impairment in Methoxetamine-Induced Psychosis: An 18F-FDG PET/CT Case Study

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs February 9, 2019 Lorenzo Moccia, A. Tofani, Marianna Mazza et al. 10 citations

Novel psychoactive substances (NPSs) have currently become a major public health concern because of relatively easy accessibility to these compounds and difficulty in identifying them with routine laboratory techniques. Here, we report the 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) case study of a 23-year-old man who developed a...

The Experience of Pleasure: A Perspective Between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience September 4, 2018 Lorenzo Moccia, Marianna Mazza, Marco Di Nicola et al.

Pleasure is more than a mere sensory event, but rather it can be conceptualized as a complex, multiform experience involving memory, motivation, homeostasis, and, sometimes, negative affects. According to Freud, affect is a perceptual modality that registers the internal drive state of the subject rather than the objective experience of the external world, and the quality of this perceptual...

MDMA-Based Psychotherapy in Treatment-Resistant Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Brief Overview of Current Evidence

Preprints.org Kainat Riaz, Sejal Suneel, Mohammad Hamza Bin Abdul Malik et al. 1 citation preprint

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental health disorder that causes significant dysfunction in individuals. Currently, there are many approved Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy treatment options for PTSD, but unfortunately, half of the patients do not respond to traditional therapies. In this article, we reviewed clinical trials and research on...