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Overview

Franco Benazzi is affiliated with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Their research is concentrated primarily in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics, Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Reliability and Agreement in Measurement, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, and Congenital Heart Disease Studies.

Benazzi's recent publications include studies on fetal brain vascularisation and movement therapy reliability. Their listed papers are:

  • Test-retest and inter-rater reliability and construct validity of the 2-minute step test in individuals with Parkinson's disease, 2024, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
  • VP41.01: Assessment of fetal brain vascularisation in fetal growth restriction using 3D power angiography, 2020, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • VP33.06: Assessment of fetal brain vascularisation in fetal growth restriction using three-dimensional power angiography, 2021, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • EP05.19: Assessment of fetal brain vascularisation in fetal growth restriction using 3D power angiography, 2024, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Their frequent coauthors include A. Rossi, A Azzena, Marina Genari Murad Carolino Dos Santos, André Luis Uhdre, and Almir Vieira Dibai-Filho.

Benazzi's research is often published in venues such as:

  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

Best Publications

  • Toward a re-definition of subthreshold bipolarity: epidemiology and proposed criteria for bipolar-II, minor bipolar disorders and hypomania.

    Jules Angst;Alex Gamma;Franco Benazzi;Vladeta Ajdacic

  • The HCL-32: towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients

    Jules Angst;Rolf Adolfsson;Franco Benazzi;Alex Gamma

  • Agitated "unipolar" depression re-conceptualized as a depressive mixed state: implications for the antidepressant-suicide controversy.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi;Giulio Perugi;Zoltán Rihmer

  • Refining the evaluation of bipolar II: beyond the strict SCID-CV guidelines for hypomania.

    Franco Benazzi;Hagop S. Akiskal

  • A cross-sectional study of the prevalence of cognitive and physical symptoms during long-term antidepressant treatment

    Maurizio Fava;Lesley M. Graves;Franco Benazzi;Margaret J. Scalia

  • Prevalence of bipolar II disorder in outpatient depression : a 203-case study in private practice

    Franco Benazzi

  • Family history validation of the bipolar nature of depressive mixed states.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi

  • Bipolar disorder--focus on bipolar II disorder and mixed depression.

    Franco Benazzi;Franco Benazzi;Franco Benazzi

  • Delineating bipolar II mixed states in the Ravenna-San Diego collaborative study: the relative prevalence and diagnostic significance of hypomanic features during major depressive episodes.

    Franco Benazzi;Hagop S Akiskal

  • Atypical depression: a variant of bipolar II or a bridge between unipolar and bipolar II?

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi

  • Bipolar II disorder : epidemiology, diagnosis and management.

    Franco Benazzi;Franco Benazzi;Franco Benazzi

  • Borderline personality disorder and bipolar II disorder in private practice depressed outpatients.

    Franco Benazzi

  • Optimizing the detection of bipolar II disorder in outpatient private practice: toward a systematization of clinical diagnostic wisdom.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi

  • Toward a validation of a new definition of agitated depression as a bipolar mixed state (mixed depression).

    F. Benazzi;A. Koukopoulos;H.S. Akiskal

  • Irritable-hostile depression: further validation as a bipolar depressive mixed state

    Franco Benazzi;Hagop Akiskal

  • Diagnostic issues in bipolar disorder

    Jules Angst;Alex Gamma;Franco Benazzi;Vladeta Ajdacic

  • The dual factor structure of self-rated MDQ hypomania: energized-activity versus irritable-thought racing

    Franco Benazzi;Hagop S. Akiskal

  • Atypical depressive syndromes in varying definitions

    Jules Angst;Alex Gamma;Franco Benazzi;Brett Silverstein

  • The DSM-IV and ICD-10 categories of recurrent [major] depressive and bipolar II disorders: evidence that they lie on a dimensional spectrum.

    Hagop S. Akiskal;Franco Benazzi

  • Melancholia and atypical depression in the Zurich study: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, course, comorbidity and personality.

    J. Angst;A. Gamma;F. Benazzi;V. Ajdacic

  • Research report The close link between suicide attempts and mixed (bipolar) depression: Implications for suicide prevention

    Judit Balázs;Franco Benazzi;Zoltán Rihmer;Annamária Rihmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Hagop S. Akiskal
Hagop S. Akiskal University of California, San Diego
Ole Bernt Fasmer
Ole Bernt Fasmer University of Bergen
Jules Angst
Jules Angst University of Zurich
Giovanni A. Fava
Giovanni A. Fava University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Richard Balon
Richard Balon Wayne State University
Carsten Spitzer
Carsten Spitzer University of Rostock
Thomas Fuchs
Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen
Karina W. Davidson
Karina W. Davidson Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam

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