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Irene Bollettini

Irene Bollettini

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Overview

Irene Bollettini is a researcher affiliated with San Raffaele Hospital in Italy. Their work spans multiple disciplines, primarily Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics frequently addressed by Irene Bollettini include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Mental Health Research Topics, and Tryptophan and Brain Disorders.

They have contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • Anxiety and depression in COVID-19 survivors: Role of inflammatory and clinical predictors (2020), published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups (2020), published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • One-year mental health outcomes in a cohort of COVID-19 survivors (2021), published in Journal of Psychiatric Research

Their most frequent coauthors are:

  • Francesco Benedetti
  • Sara Poletti
  • Benedetta Vai
  • Federico Calesella
  • B. Bravi

The main venues where Irene Bollettini has published include Neuroscience Applied, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Molecular Psychiatry, European Psychiatry, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Irene Bollettini's research integrates clinical and neuroimaging approaches, with a notable emphasis on psychiatric disorders and mental health outcomes. Their contributions span investigations of brain structure and function, particularly using advanced neuroimaging techniques to understand disorders such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and autism spectrum disorder. Additionally, their work includes research on the mental health aftermath of COVID-19, examining the biological and clinical predictors of anxiety and depression in survivors.

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

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Stephanie H. Ameis

  • Cortical Abnormalities Associated With Pediatric and Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Pino Alonso

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Lithium and GSK3-β Promoter Gene Variants Influence White Matter Microstructure in Bipolar Disorder

    Francesco Benedetti;Irene Bollettini;Ignazio Barberi;Daniele Radaelli

  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups

    Premika S W Boedhoe;Daan van Rooij;Martine Hoogman;Jos W R Twisk

  • Inflammatory cytokines influence measures of white matter integrity in Bipolar Disorder

    Francesco Benedetti;Sara Poletti;Thomas A. Hoogenboezem;Elena Mazza

  • What we learn about bipolar disorder from large‐scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA bipolar disorder working group

    Christopher R K Ching;Derrek P Hibar;Tiril P Gurholt;Tiril P Gurholt;Abraham Nunes

  • Mapping Cortical and Subcortical Asymmetry in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Consortium

    Xiang-Zhen Kong;Premika S W Boedhoe;Yoshinari Abe;Pino Alonso

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

    Sara Poletti;Irene Bollettini;Elena Mazza;Clara Locatelli

  • An Empirical Comparison of Meta- and Mega-Analysis With Data From the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group

    Premika S. W. Boedhoe;Martijn W. Heymans;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe

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

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

  • Adverse childhood experiences influence white matter microstructure in patients with bipolar disorder

    F. Benedetti;I. Bollettini;D. Radaelli;S. Poletti

  • An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive–compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration

    Odile A van den Heuvel;Odile A van den Heuvel;Premika S W Boedhoe;Sara Bertolin;Willem B Bruin

  • Brain structural covariance networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a graph analysis from the ENIGMA Consortium.

    Je-Yeon Yun;Je-Yeon Yun;Premika S W Boedhoe;Chris Vriend;Neda Jahanshad

  • White matter microstructure in bipolar disorder is influenced by the serotonin transporter gene polymorphism 5‐HTTLPR

    F. Benedetti;I. Bollettini;S. Poletti;C. Locatelli

  • The thalamus and its subnuclei—a gateway to obsessive-compulsive disorder

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

    Benedetta Vai;Lorenzo Parenti;Irene Bollettini;Cristina Cara

  • 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

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

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

  • Kynurenine pathway and white matter microstructure in bipolar disorder

    Sara Poletti;Aye Mu Myint;Gregor Schüetze;Irene Bollettini

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sara Poletti
Sara Poletti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Benedetta Vai
Benedetta Vai IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Cristina Colombo
Cristina Colombo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Luisa Lázaro
Luisa Lázaro University of Barcelona
Fabrizio Piras
Fabrizio Piras Fondazione Santa Lucia
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute

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