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Overview

Giovanni A. Fava is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their academic contributions span multiple fields within medicine and psychology, with a primary focus on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, pharmacology, clinical psychology, and general health professions.

Their research covers a range of main topics, including the treatment of major depression, mental health research topics, schizophrenia research and treatment, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional focus areas include psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, health, psychology, and well-being, along with electroconvulsive therapy studies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Giovanni A. Fava include:

  • Allostatic Load and Its Impact on Health: A Systematic Review, 2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • The Clinical Characterization of the Adult Patient with Depression Aimed at Personalization of Management, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • The Hamilton Rating Scales for Depression: A Critical Review of Clinimetric Properties of Different Versions, 2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Clinimetric Criteria for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, 2021, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • The Pursuit of Euthymia, 2020, World Psychiatry

Giovanni A. Fava has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jenny Guidi, Nicoletta Sonino, Fiammetta Cosci, Charles-Siegfried Peretti, and Chiara Rafanelli.

Their work has been published in multiple academic venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Other common publication venues include Ärztliche Psychotherapie, The American Journal of Medicine, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, and World Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis and Complications of Cushing’s Syndrome: A Consensus Statement

    G. Arnaldi;A. Angeli;A. B. Atkinson;X. Bertagna

  • Allostatic Load and Its Impact on Health: A Systematic Review

    Jenny Guidi;Marcella Lucente;Nicoletta Sonino;Giovanni A. Fava

  • Prevention of Recurrent Depression With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Preliminary Findings

    Giovanni A. Fava;Chiara Rafanelli;Silvana Grandi;Sandra Conti

  • The Safety, Tolerability and Risks Associated with the Use of Newer Generation Antidepressant Drugs: A Critical Review of the Literature.

    André F. Carvalho;Manu S. Sharma;André R. Brunoni;Eduard Vieta

  • Well-being therapy. A novel psychotherapeutic approach for residual symptoms of affective disorders.

    Giovanni A. Fava;C. Rafanelli;M. Cazzaro;S. Conti

  • Six-year outcome of cognitive behavior therapy for prevention of recurrent depression.

    Giovanni A. Fava;Chiara Ruini;Chiara Rafanelli;Livio Finos

  • Well-Being Therapy: Conceptual and Technical Issues

    Giovanni A. Fava

  • Life events and depression: A replication

    G.A. Fava;G.A. Fava;G.A. Fava;F. Munari;F. Munari;F. Munari;L. Pavan;L. Pavan;L. Pavan;R. Kellner;R. Kellner;R. Kellner

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychosomatic Research

    Giovanni A. Fava;Harald J. Freyberger;Per Bech;George Christodoulou

  • Withdrawal Symptoms after Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Discontinuation: A Systematic Review.

    Giovanni A. Fava;Alessia Gatti;Carlotta Belaise;Jenny Guidi

  • Well-being therapy of generalized anxiety disorder.

    Giovanni A. Fava;Chiara Ruini;Chiara Rafanelli;Livio Finos

  • Increasing Psychological Well-Being and Resilience by Psychotherapeutic Methods

    Giovanni A. Fava;Giovanni A. Fava;Elena Tomba

  • Development and characteristics of a well-being enhancing psychotherapeutic strategy: well-being therapy

    Giovanni A. Fava;Chiara Ruini

  • The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

    Mario Maj;Dan J. Stein;Gordon Parker;Mark Zimmerman

  • Cognitive behavioral treatment of residual symptoms in primary major depressive disorder.

    Giovanni A. Fava;Silvana Grandi;Maria Zielezny;Renzo Canestrari

  • Subclinical symptoms in mood disorders: pathophysiological and therapeutic implications.

    Giovanni A. Fava

  • Risk factors and long-term outcome in pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease

    Nicoletta Sonino;Maria Zielezny;Giovanni A. Fava;Francesco Fallo

  • Six-Year Outcome for Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Residual Symptoms in Major Depression

    Giovanni A. Fava;Chiara Rafanelli;Silvana Grandi;Renzo Canestrari

  • Psychiatric disorders associated with Cushing's syndrome. Epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment.

    Nicoletta Sonino;Giovanni A. Fava

  • Current Psychosomatic Practice

    Giovanni A Fava;Fiammetta Cosci;Nicoletta Sonino

  • School intervention for promoting psychological well-being in adolescence.

    Chiara Ruini;Fedra Ottolini;Elena Tomba;Carlotta Belaise

  • Staging: a neglected dimension in psychiatric classification

    G. A. Fava;R. Kellner

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvana Grandi
Silvana Grandi University of Bologna
Chiara Rafanelli
Chiara Rafanelli University of Bologna
Chiara Ruini
Chiara Ruini University of Bologna
Elena Tomba
Elena Tomba University of Bologna
Jenny Guidi
Jenny Guidi University of Bologna
Fiammetta Cosci
Fiammetta Cosci University of Florence
Robert Kellner
Robert Kellner University of New Mexico
Per Bech
Per Bech University of Copenhagen
Piero Porcelli
Piero Porcelli University of Chieti-Pescara
Maurizio Fava
Maurizio Fava Harvard University

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