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Angela Favaro

Angela Favaro

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Psychology

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63
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15695
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Overview

Angela Favaro is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy, focusing their research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The researcher's main topics of interest center around Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, COVID-19 and Mental Health, the Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Mental Health Research Topics, and Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies.

Favaro has contributed to several recent publications, notable among them are:

  • "COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders," 2020, published in European Eating Disorders Review
  • "Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease," 2020, published in Nature Genetics
  • "Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses," 2022, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Factors Associated With Loneliness: An Umbrella Review Of Observational Studies," 2020, published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder-specific systematic review, meta-analysis and multivariable meta-regression analysis," 2024, published in World Psychiatry

Favaro frequently publishes in journals specializing in eating disorders and mental health, including:

  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Appetite

Favaro collaborates often, with co-authors who have worked extensively alongside them. These include Paolo Meneguzzo, Enrico Collantoni, Elena Tenconi, Valentina Meregalli, and Marco Solmi.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, incidence and mortality from cardiovascular disease in patients with pooled and specific severe mental illness: a large-scale meta-analysis of 3,211,768 patients and 113,383,368 controls.

    Christoph U. Correll;Marco Solmi;Nicola Veronese;Beatrice Bortolato

  • 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

  • Significant Locus and Metabolic Genetic Correlations Revealed in Genome-Wide Association Study of Anorexia Nervosa.

    Laramie Duncan;Zeynep Yilmaz;Helena Gaspar;Raymond Walters

  • 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

  • The spectrum of eating disorders in young women: a prevalence study in a general population sample.

    Angela Favaro;Silvia Ferrara;Paolo Santonastaso

  • COVID-19 and implications for eating disorders.

    Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Fernando Fernández‐Aranda;Miquel Casas;Miquel Casas;Laurence Claes;Laurence Claes;Danielle Clark Bryan

  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease.

    J Bryois;N G Skene;T F Hansen;T F Hansen;Kogelman Lja.

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • Time Trends in Age at Onset of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

    Angela Favaro;Lorenza Caregaro;Elena Tenconi;Romina Bosello

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

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  • Eating disorders: the big issue

    Ulrike Schmidt;Roger Adan;Ilka Böhm;Iain C Campbell

  • Set-shifting abilities, central coherence, and handedness in anorexia nervosa patients, their unaffected siblings and healthy controls: Exploring putative endophenotypes

    Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso;Daniela Degortes;Romina Bosello

  • Suicidality in eating disorders: clinical and psychological correlates

    A. Favaro;P. Santonastaso

  • Perinatal factors and the risk of developing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Self-injurious behavior in anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Impulsive and Compulsive Self-Injurious Behavior in Bulimia Nervosa: Prevalence and Psychological Correlates

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Inflammatory cytokines and anorexia nervosa: A meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

    Marco Solmi;Nicola Veronese;Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Olanzapine therapy in anorexia nervosa: psychobiological effects.

    Francesca Brambilla;Cristina Segura Garcia;Secondo Fassino;Giovanni Abbate Daga

  • Association of Antidepressant Use With Adverse Health Outcomes: A Systematic Umbrella Review

    Elena Dragioti;Elena Dragioti;Marco Solmi;Marco Solmi;Angela Favaro;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli

  • Disruption of visuospatial and somatosensory functional connectivity in anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso;Renzo Manara;Romina Bosello

  • Factors Associated With Loneliness: An Umbrella Review Of Observational Studies

    Marco Solmi;Nicola Veronese;Daiana Galvano;Angela Favaro

  • Full and partial syndromes in eating disorders: A 1-year prospective study of risk factors among female students.

    Paolo Santonastaso;Silvia Friederici;Angela Favaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Santonastaso
Paolo Santonastaso University of Padua
Elena Tenconi
Elena Tenconi University of Padua
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo

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