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Elena Tenconi

Elena Tenconi

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
5315
World Ranking
10478
National Ranking
240

Overview

Elena Tenconi is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research spans several areas within psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry. The primary fields of study associated with their work include psychology with 84 publications and medicine with 38 publications. The subfields of study particularly relevant to their research are clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, public health, environmental and occupational health, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in Elena Tenconi's research consist of eating disorders and behaviors, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, child nutrition and feeding issues, autism spectrum disorder research, obesity and health practices, obesity alongside physical activity and diet, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

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

Among recent papers, key publications are:

  • Factors Associated With Real-Life Functioning in Persons With Schizophrenia in a 4-Year Follow-up Study of the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • The role of sexual orientation in the relationships between body perception, body weight dissatisfaction, physical comparison, and eating psychopathology in the cisgender population, 2020, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • The predictive value of the early maladaptive schemas in social situations in anorexia nervosa, 2020, European Eating Disorders Review
  • Cortical Complexity in Anorexia Nervosa: A Fractal Dimension Analysis, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Elena Tenconi has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. Frequent coauthors include Paolo Meneguzzo, Angela Favaro, Enrico Collantoni, Valentina Meregalli, and Valentina Cardi.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

    Angela Favaro;Lorenza Caregaro;Elena Tenconi;Romina Bosello

  • 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

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

    Angela Favaro;Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso

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

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso;Renzo Manara;Romina Bosello

  • Factors Associated With Real-Life Functioning in Persons With Schizophrenia in a 4-Year Follow-up Study of the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses.

    Armida Mucci;Silvana Galderisi;Dino Gibertoni;Alessandro Rossi

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in heart transplantation recipients: the relationship with outcome and adherence to medical treatment

    Angela Favaro;Gino Gerosa;Alida L.P. Caforio;Biancarosa Volpe

  • The interplay among psychopathology, personal resources, context-related factors and real-life functioning in schizophrenia: stability in relationships after 4 years and differences in network structure between recovered and non-recovered patients.

    S. Galderisi;P. Rucci;A. Mucci;A. Rossi

  • Network analysis of specific psychopathology and psychiatric symptoms in patients with eating disorders.

    Marco Solmi;Enrico Collantoni;Paolo Meneguzzo;Daniela Degortes

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    V. Boraska;C. S. Franklin;J. A. B. Floyd;L. M. Thornton

  • The relationship between temperament and impulsive behaviors in eating disordered subjects.

    Angela Favaro;Tatiana Zanetti;Elena Tenconi;Daniela Degortes

  • 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

  • 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

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype modifies executive functioning and prefrontal functional connectivity in women with anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Maurizio Clementi;Renzo Manara;Romina Bosello

  • Typical and atypical restrictive anorexia nervosa: weight history, body image, psychiatric symptoms, and response to outpatient treatment.

    Paolo Santonastaso;Romina Bosello;Paolo Schiavone;Elena Tenconi

  • The interaction between perinatal factors and childhood abuse in the risk of developing anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Disorganization and real-world functioning in schizophrenia: Results from the multicenter study of the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses.

    P. Rocca;S. Galderisi;A. Rossi;A. Bertolino

  • Premorbid academic and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia and its associations with negative symptoms and cognition.

    P Bucci;S Galderisi;A Mucci;A Rossi

  • Network analysis of specific psychopathology and psychiatric symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa

    Marco Solmi;Enrico Collantoni;Paolo Meneguzzo;Elena Tenconi

  • The complex relationship between self-reported 'personal recovery' and clinical recovery in schizophrenia.

    Alessandro Rossi;Mario Amore;Silvana Galderisi;Paola Rocca

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Favaro
Angela Favaro University of Padua
Paolo Santonastaso
Paolo Santonastaso University of Padua
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raquel Rabionet
Raquel Rabionet University of Barcelona
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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