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Alessio Maria Monteleone is affiliated with the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and medicine, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. This work spans a range of subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, biological psychiatry, and sociology and political science.

The scientific contributions of Alessio Maria Monteleone center largely on eating disorders and related behaviors, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and mental health research topics. Additional topics addressed include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, tryptophan and brain disorders, the impact of technology on adolescents, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health.

Key recent papers by Alessio Maria Monteleone include:

  • Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • A systematic review of network analysis studies in eating disorders: Is time to broaden the core psychopathology to non specific symptoms, 2021, European Eating Disorders Review

Other highly cited works relevant to Monteleone's field include:

  • The impact of COVID-19 epidemic on eating disorders: A longitudinal observation of pre versus post psychopathological features in a sample of patients with eating disorders and a group of healthy controls, 2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder-specific systematic review, meta-analysis and multivariable meta-regression analysis, 2024, World Psychiatry
  • Risk factors for eating disorders: an umbrella review of published meta-analyses, 2020, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry

Monteleone has coauthored frequently with researchers such as Giammarco Cascino, Palmiero Monteleone, Eugenia Barone, Valdo Ricca, and Giovanni Castellini, indicating collaborative engagement across multiple studies.

The scientist's publication record includes multiple contributions to key journals like European Psychiatry, European Eating Disorders Review, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. This shows a consistent pattern of research dissemination in specialized academic venues.

Among published book contributions, Alessio Maria Monteleone authored a volume titled Mental Health Research and Practice (2024), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses

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  • Eating disorders: What age at onset?

    Umberto Volpe;Alfonso Tortorella;Mirko Manchia;Alessio M. Monteleone

  • The impact of COVID-19 epidemic on eating disorders: A longitudinal observation of pre versus post psychopathological features in a sample of patients with eating disorders and a group of healthy controls.

    Giovanni Castellini;Emanuele Cassioli;Eleonora Rossi;Matteo Innocenti

  • Hedonic eating is associated with increased peripheral levels of ghrelin and the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol in healthy humans: a pilot study.

    Palmiero Monteleone;Palmiero Monteleone;Fabiana Piscitelli;Pasquale Scognamiglio;Alessio Maria Monteleone

  • Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis

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  • Neuroendocrinology and brain imaging of reward in eating disorders: A possible key to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Giovanni Castellini;Umberto Volpe;Valdo Ricca

  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group

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  • Risk factors for eating disorders: an umbrella review of published meta-analyses

    Marco Solmi;Marco Solmi;Joaquim Radua;Joaquim Radua;Brendon Stubbs;Brendon Stubbs;Brendon Stubbs;Valdo Ricca

  • A systematic review of network analysis studies in eating disorders: Is time to broaden the core psychopathology to non specific symptoms.

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Giammarco Cascino

  • Different outcomes, psychopathological features, and comorbidities in patients with eating disorders reporting childhood abuse: A 3-year follow-up study.

    Giovanni Castellini;Lorenzo Lelli;Emanuele Cassioli;Eleonora Ciampi

  • Re-conceptualization of anorexia nervosa psychopathology: A network analysis study in adolescents with short duration of the illness

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Alberta Mereu;Giammarco Cascino;Michela Criscuolo

  • Childhood trauma and cortisol awakening response in symptomatic patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Palmiero Monteleone;Palmiero Monteleone;Ismene Serino;Pasquale Scognamiglio

  • Social Difficulties As Risk and Maintaining Factors in Anorexia Nervosa: A Mixed-Method Investigation.

    Valentina Cardi;Núria Mallorqui-Bague;Gaia Albano;Gaia Albano;Alessio Maria Monteleone

  • Associations Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Various Eating Disorders: A Swedish Nationwide Population Study Using Multiple Genetically Informative Approaches.

    Shuyang Yao;Ralf Kuja-Halkola;Joanna Martin;Yi Lu

  • The association between childhood maltreatment and eating disorder psychopathology: A mixed-model investigation

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Giammarco Cascino;Francesca Pellegrino;Valeria Ruzzi

  • The impact of COVID-19 lockdown and of the following "re-opening" period on specific and general psychopathology in people with Eating Disorders: the emergent role of internalizing symptoms.

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Francesca Marciello;Giammarco Cascino;Giovanni Abbate-Daga

  • Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies

    Melissa A. Munn-Chernoff;Emma C. Johnson;Yi Ling Chou;Jonathan R.I. Coleman

  • Central and peripheral peptides regulating eating behaviour and energy homeostasis in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: a literature review.

    Alfonso Tortorella;Francesca Brambilla;Michele Fabrazzo;Umberto Volpe

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Parental bonding, childhood maltreatment and eating disorder psychopathology: an investigation of their interactions.

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Valeria Ruzzi;Giuseppina Patriciello;Francesca Pellegrino

  • The Role of the Embodiment Disturbance in the Anorexia Nervosa Psychopathology: A Network Analysis Study.

    Giammarco Cascino;Giovanni Castellini;Giovanni Stanghellini;Valdo Ricca

  • Altered processing of rewarding and aversive basic taste stimuli in symptomatic women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: An fMRI study.

    Alessio Maria Monteleone;Palmiero Monteleone;Palmiero Monteleone;Fabrizio Esposito;Anna Prinster

Frequent Co-Authors

Valdo Ricca
Valdo Ricca University of Florence
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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