Rivista di psichiatria
2026
Francesco Sepioni, Antonio Metastasio, Manuel Monti
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound subjective experiences that are reported by individuals who have been near death. These conscious experiences occur during critical states such as coma, cardiac arrest, or severe trauma. While the majority of NDEs are characterized by pleasant and often transformative elements like a sense of peace or connection to a higher consciousness, a significant...
Rivista di psichiatria
March 1, 2025
A. Sarni, Giovanni Martinotti, Giuseppe Maina et al.
The increasing prevalence of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) presents a significant challenge for both diagnosis and treatment, particularly due to the complex psychotic states they can induce. This paper explores the concept of lysergic psychoma, rooted in Bonhoeffer's exogenous psychosis model, and its relevance to modern substance-induced psychoses. Lysergic psychoma, characterized by...
Rivista di psichiatria
November 1, 2024
Valerio Ricci, Domenico de Berardis, Giovanni Martinotti et al.
2 citations
BACKGROUND: Cannabis is the most used recreational drug worldwide. Its use can increase the risk of developing psychotic disorders and exacerbate their course. However, little is known about the relationship between psychosis and withdrawal and the literature is still scarce. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, based on an analysis of 4 patients referred to our mental health department and...
Rivista di psichiatria
2022
Walter Paganin, Sabrina Signorini, Vincenzo Leccese et al.
5 citations
This paper aims to investigate the advances in recent years in the recognition and therapy of treatment-resistant depression starting from the concepts of: depressive disorder, resistance and pseudoresistance to drug treatment in depression, and appropriate treatments of treatment-resistant depression. An extensive research was carried out on scientific databases such as: PubMed, PsychInfo and...
Rivista di psichiatria
2014
Adele Quartini, Annalisa Anastasia, Francesco Saverio Bersani et al.
Sleep disturbances have long been considered as a cardinal symptom of endogenous depression and dreams in depressed patients usually differ from those of healthy people. The aim of the present study was to investigate dream subjective experiences and their modifications in relation to clinical response in a group of escitalopram-treated depressed patients. Twenty-seven female patients meeting...