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Carlo Faravelli

Carlo Faravelli

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
21666
World Ranking
1527
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Carlo Faravelli is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of psychology and medicine, particularly focusing on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. Their work also intersects with oncology and sociology and political science.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Some of their recent scholarly papers include:

  • The lifetime prevalence and impact of generalized anxiety disorders in an epidemiologic Italian National Survey carried out by clinicians by means of semi-structured interviews (2021, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Stressful life events and psychosis: Gender differences (2021, Stress and Health)
  • The Burden of Comorbidity Between Bipolar Spectrum and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in an Italian Community Survey (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • The Burden of Agoraphobia in Worsening Quality of Life in a Community Survey in Italy (2021, Psychiatry Investigation)
  • Childhood adversity, symptoms, and cortisol in first episode psychosis: a cross-sectional, secondary, observational analysis of a subsample of FEP patients (2022, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry)

Faravelli has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Giulia Fioravanti
  • Antonio Preti
  • Maria Francesca Moro
  • Ferdinando Romano
  • Matteo Balestrieri

Their work has been published in multiple venues, with repeated publications in:

  • PubMed
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Stress and Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Psychiatry Investigation

Overall, the contributions of Carlo Faravelli address a range of psychological and medical topics, often emphasizing mental health, its development in childhood and adolescence, and the relationship between mental health and conditions such as cancer and trauma.

Best Publications

  • The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    H.U. Wittchen;F. Jacobi;J. Rehm;J. Rehm;Anders Gustavsson

  • Cross-national epidemiology of major depression and bipolar disorder

    M. M. Weissman;R. C. Bland;G. J. Canino;C. Faravelli

  • Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    Anders Gustavsson;Mikael Svensson;Frank Jacobi;Christer Allgulander

  • The Cross-national Epidemiology of Panic Disorder

    M M Weissman;R C Bland;G J Canino;C Faravelli

  • Epidemiology of somatoform disorders: a community survey in Florence.

    C. Faravelli;S. Salvatori;F. Galassi;L. Aiazzi

  • Gender differences in depression and anxiety: the role of age.

    Carlo Faravelli;Maria Alessandra Scarpato;Giovanni Castellini;Carolina Lo Sauro

  • Diagnostic crossover and outcome predictors in eating disorders according to DSM-IV and DSM-V proposed criteria: a 6-year follow-up study.

    Giovanni Castellini;Carolina Lo Sauro;Edoardo Mannucci;Claudia Ravaldi

  • Depression and anxiety in perinatal period: prevalence and risk factors in an Italian sample

    L. Giardinelli;A. Innocenti;L. Benni;M. C. Stefanini

  • The epidemiology of panic disorder and agoraphobia in Europe

    R.D. Goodwin;C. Faravelli;S. Rosi;F. Cosci

  • Recent life events and panic disorder.

    Carlo Faravelli;Stefano Pallanti

  • Stress, Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Eating Disorders

    Carolina Lo Sauro;Claudia Ravaldi;Pier Luigi Cabras;Carlo Faravelli

  • Correlations between binge eating and emotional eating in a sample of overweight subjects.

    Valdo Ricca;Giovanni Castellini;Carolina Lo Sauro;Claudia Ravaldi

  • Psychopathology after rape.

    Carlo Faravelli;Alice Giugni;Stefano Salvatori;Valdo Ricca

  • The Role of Life Events and HPA Axis in Anxiety Disorders: A Review

    Carlo Faravelli;Carolina Lo Sauro;Lorenzo Lelli;Francesco Pietrini

  • Depressive relapses and incomplete recovery from index episode.

    Carlo Faravelli;Alessandra Ambonetti;Stefano Pallanti;Adolfo Pazzagli

  • Life events preceding the onset of panic disorder

    Carlo Faravelli

  • Brain Perfusion Abnormalities in Drug-Naive, Lactate-Sensitive Panic Patients: A SPECT Study

    Maria Teresa R. De Cristofaro;Antonella Sessarego;Alberto Pupi;Francesco Biondi

  • Epidemiology of anxiety disorders in Florence.

    C. Faravelli;B. Guerrini Degl'Innocenti;L. Biardinelli

  • Childhood stressful events, HPA axis and anxiety disorders

    Carlo Faravelli;Carolina Lo Sauro;Lucia Godini;Lorenzo Lelli

  • A European perspective on social anxiety disorder.

    Y. Lecrubier;H.U. Wittchen;C. Faravelli;J. Bobes

  • Psychopathological and clinical features of outpatients with an eating disorder not otherwise specified.

    Valdo Ricca;E. Mannucci;B. Mezzani;M. Di Bernardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Valdo Ricca
Valdo Ricca University of Florence
Fiammetta Cosci
Fiammetta Cosci University of Florence
Giulia Fioravanti
Giulia Fioravanti University of Florence
Matteo Balestrieri
Matteo Balestrieri University of Udine
Stefano Pallanti
Stefano Pallanti Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Liliana Dell'Osso
Liliana Dell'Osso University of Pisa
Mauro Giovanni Carta
Mauro Giovanni Carta University of Cagliari
Giovanni A. Fava
Giovanni A. Fava University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Frank Jacobi
Frank Jacobi Psychologische Hochschule Berlin

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