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Benedetta Vai is affiliated with IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines including medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Within these areas, their work contributes notably to subfields such as clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research topics include:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benedetta Vai are:

  • Francesco Benedetti
  • Sara Poletti
  • Federico Calesella
  • Irene Bollettini
  • L. Fortaner-Uyà

The scientist publishes regularly in the following venues:

  • Neuroscience Applied
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Selected recent papers by Benedetta Vai include:

  • Mental disorders and risk of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • All roads lead to the default-mode network-global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Long-term consequences of COVID-19 on cognitive functioning up to 6 months after discharge: role of depression and impact on quality of life, 2021, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Brain correlates of depression, post-traumatic distress, and inflammatory biomarkers in COVID-19 survivors: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study, 2021, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Best Publications

  • Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors.

    Mario Gennaro Mazza;Rebecca De Lorenzo;Caterina Conte;Sara Poletti

  • Mental disorders and risk of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Benedetta Vai;Mario Gennaro Mazza;Claudia Delli Colli;Marianne Foiselle

  • All roads lead to the default-mode network—global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder

    Andrea Scalabrini;Benedetta Vai;Sara Poletti;Stefano Damiani

  • Long-term consequences of COVID-19 on cognitive functioning up to 6 months after discharge: role of depression and impact on quality of life.

    Sara Poletti;Mariagrazia Palladini;Mario Gennaro Mazza;Rebecca De Lorenzo

  • Brain correlates of depression, post-traumatic distress, and inflammatory biomarkers in COVID-19 survivors: A multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Francesco Benedetti;Mariagrazia Palladini;Marco Paolini;Elisa Melloni

  • A peripheral inflammatory signature discriminates bipolar from unipolar depression: A machine learning approach

    Sara Poletti;Benedetta Vai;Mario Gennaro Mazza;Raffaella Zanardi

  • Cognitive performances associate with measures of white matter integrity in bipolar disorder.

    Sara Poletti;Irene Bollettini;Elena Mazza;Clara Locatelli

  • One-year mental health outcomes in a cohort of COVID-19 survivors

    Mario Gennaro Mazza;Mariagrazia Palladini;Rebecca De Lorenzo;Beatrice Bravi

  • Fronto-limbic disconnection in bipolar disorder

    D. Radaelli;G. Sferrazza Papa;B. Vai;S. Poletti

  • Predicting differential diagnosis between bipolar and unipolar depression with multiple kernel learning on multimodal structural neuroimaging.

    Benedetta Vai;Lorenzo Parenti;Irene Bollettini;Cristina Cara

  • Fronto-limbic effective connectivity as possible predictor of antidepressant response to SSRI administration

    Benedetta Vai;Benedetta Vai;Chiara Bulgarelli;Beata R. Godlewska;Philip J. Cowen

  • The functional connectome in obsessive-compulsive disorder: resting-state mega-analysis and machine learning classification for the ENIGMA-OCD consortium

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  • Risk Perception and Media in Shaping Protective Behaviors: Insights From the Early Phase of COVID-19 Italian Outbreak.

    Benedetta Vai;Silvia Cazzetta;Davide Ghiglino;Lorenzo Parenti

  • Severe mental illness and European COVID-19 vaccination strategies.

    Livia J De Picker;Marisa Casanova Dias;Michael E Benros;Benedetta Vai

  • A Homer 1 gene variant influences brain structure and function, lithium effects on white matter, and antidepressant response in bipolar disorder: A multimodal genetic imaging study.

    Francesco Benedetti;Sara Poletti;Clara Locatelli;Elena Mazza

  • Higher baseline interleukin-1β and TNF-α hamper antidepressant response in major depressive disorder.

    Francesco Benedetti;Sara Poletti;Benedetta Vai;Mario Gennaro Mazza

  • Markers of neuroinflammation influence measures of cortical thickness in bipolar depression.

    Sara Poletti;Giovanni Leone;Thomas A. Hoogenboezem;Davide Ghiglino

  • Selective association of cytokine levels and kynurenine/tryptophan ratio with alterations in white matter microstructure in bipolar but not in unipolar depression

    Stefano Comai;Elisa Melloni;Cristina Lorenzi;Irene Bollettini

  • Adverse childhood experiences influence the detrimental effect of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on cortico-limbic grey matter volumes.

    Sara Poletti;Benedetta Vai;Enrico Smeraldi;Roberto Cavallaro

  • Clock genes associate with white matter integrity in depressed bipolar patients.

    Irene Bollettini;Elisa Maria Teresa Melloni;Veronica Aggio;Sara Poletti

  • Abnormal cortico-limbic connectivity during emotional processing correlates with symptom severity in schizophrenia

    B. Vai;B. Vai;G. Sferrazza Papa;S. Poletti;D. Radaelli

  • Corticolimbic connectivity as a possible biomarker for bipolar disorder.

    Benedetta Vai;Irene Bollettini;Francesco Benedetti

  • Disruption of white matter integrity marks poor antidepressant response in bipolar disorder.

    Irene Bollettini;Sara Poletti;Clara Locatelli;Benedetta Vai

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sara Poletti
Sara Poletti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Cristina Colombo
Cristina Colombo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Irene Bollettini
Irene Bollettini San Raffaele Hospital
Raffaella Zanardi
Raffaella Zanardi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Igor Branchi
Igor Branchi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Cesare Maffei
Cesare Maffei Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan

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