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Antonios Dakanalis

Antonios Dakanalis

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
6164
World Ranking
6780
National Ranking
130

Overview

Antonios Dakanalis is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of eating disorders and behaviors, COVID-19 and mental health, and brain-related biochemical processes such as those involving tryptophan.

Their research topics specifically include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Dakanalis has published 73 works in medicine and 64 in psychology, with a prominent focus on clinical psychology through 50 publications and psychiatry and mental health across 14 publications. Other areas of expertise include public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacology, and biological psychiatry.

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nutrients
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Medical Sciences
  • PubMed

Among the recent publications attributed to Antonios Dakanalis are:

  • "The Association of Emotional Eating with Overweight/Obesity, Depression, Anxiety/Stress, and Dietary Patterns: A Review of the Current Clinical Evidence," 2023, Nutrients

Dakanalis has collaborated repeatedly with a group of frequent co-authors, including Massimo Clerici, Fabrizia Colmegna, Enrico Capuzzi, Constantinos Giaginis, and Massimiliano Buoli.

The scientist's work covers several intersecting themes in medicine and psychology, with notable emphasis on the behavioral and mental health aspects of eating disorders, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental wellness, as well as molecular and pharmacological approaches to brain disorders.

Best Publications

  • Disentangling the Association Between Child Abuse and Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Manuela Caslini;Francesco Bartoli;Cristina Crocamo;Antonios Dakanalis

  • The Association of Emotional Eating with Overweight/Obesity, Depression, Anxiety/Stress, and Dietary Patterns: A Review of the Current Clinical Evidence

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  • Egocentric and allocentric spatial reference frames in aging: A systematic review.

    Desirée Colombo;Silvia Serino;Cosimo Tuena;Elisa Pedroli

  • The developmental effects of media-ideal internalization and self-objectification processes on adolescents’ negative body-feelings, dietary restraint, and binge eating

    Antonios Dakanalis;Giuseppe Carrà;Rachel Calogero;Roberta Fida

  • A Novel Technique for Improving Bodily Experience in a Non-operable Super-Super Obesity Case.

    Silvia Serino;Federica Scarpina;Anouk Keizer;Elisa Pedroli

  • Virtual Reality Body Swapping: A Tool for Modifying the Allocentric Memory of the Body

    Silvia Serino;Elisa Pedroli;Anouk Keizer;Stefano Triberti

  • The relationship of sex and sexual orientation to self-esteem, body shape satisfaction, and eating disorder symptomatology

    Chetra Yean;Erik M. Benau;Antonios Dakanalis;Julia M. Hormes;Julia M. Hormes

  • Italian version of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire. Psychometric proprieties and measurement invariance across sex, BMI-status and age

    Antonios Dakanalis;M. Assunta Zanetti;Massimo Clerici;Fabio Madeddu

  • A Randomised Controlled Comparison of Second-Level Treatment Approaches for Treatment-Resistant Adults with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder: Assessing the Benefits of Virtual Reality Cue Exposure Therapy

    Marta Ferrer-García;José Gutiérrez-Maldonado;Joana Pla-Sanjuanelo;Ferran Vilalta-Abella

  • Embodied medicine: Mens sana in corpore virtuale sano

    Giuseppe Riva;Silvia Serino;Daniele Di Lernia;Enea Francesco Pavone

  • Attachment insecurities, maladaptive perfectionism, and eating disorder symptoms: A latent mediated and moderated structural equation modeling analysis across diagnostic groups

    Antonios Dakanalis;Antonios Dakanalis;C. Alix Timko;M. Assunta Zanetti;Lucio Rinaldi

  • Male body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomatology: Moderating variables among men

    Antonios Dakanalis;Assunta M Zanetti;Giuseppe Riva;Fabrizia Colmegna

  • Risk and maintenance factors for young women's DSM-5 eating disorders.

    Antonios Dakanalis;Antonios Dakanalis;Massimo Clerici;Francesco Beghella Bartoli;Manuela Caslini

  • Body-image distortion in anorexia nervosa

    Antonios Dakanalis;Santino Gaudio;Santino Gaudio;Silvia Serino;Massimo Clerici

  • Mass media, body image and eating disturbances: The underlying mechanism through the lens of the objectification theory

    Antonios Dakanalis;Giuseppe Riva

  • Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Symptomatology: A Latent Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Moderating Variables in 18-to-28-Year-Old Males.

    Antonios Dakanalis;Laura Favagrossa;Massimo Clerici;Antonio Prunas

  • The neuropsychology of self-objectification

    Giuseppe Riva;Santino Gaudio;Antonios Dakanalis

  • Altered Processing and Integration of Multisensory Bodily Representations and Signals in Eating Disorders: A Possible Path Toward the Understanding of Their Underlying Causes

    Giuseppe Riva;Antonios Dakanalis

  • Comprehensive examination of the trans-diagnostic cognitive behavioral model of eating disorders in males

    Antonios Dakanalis;C. Alix Timko;Massimo Clerici;M. Assunta Zanetti

  • Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Italian Men: Objectifying Media and Sexual Orientation Differences

    Antonios Dakanalis;Valentina E. Di Mattei;Elena Pagani Bagliacca;Antonio Prunas

  • Identifying specific cues and contexts related to bingeing behavior for the development of effective virtual environments

    Joana Pla-Sanjuanelo;Marta Ferrer-García;José Gutiérrez-Maldonado;Giuseppe Riva

  • Mechanisms of influence of body checking on binge eating

    Antonios Dakanalis;Giuseppe Carrà;C. Alix Timko;Chiara Volpato

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Riva
Giuseppe Riva Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Massimo Clerici
Massimo Clerici University of Milano-Bicocca
Silvia Serino
Silvia Serino University of Milano-Bicocca
José Gutiérrez-Maldonado
José Gutiérrez-Maldonado University of Barcelona
C. Alix Timko
C. Alix Timko Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Pietro Cipresso
Pietro Cipresso Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Andrea Gaggioli
Andrea Gaggioli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Claudio Imperatori
Claudio Imperatori European University of Rome
Rachel M. Calogero
Rachel M. Calogero University of Western Ontario

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