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Lucia Valmaggia is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily intersects the fields of psychology and medicine, with a specialized focus on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, general health professions, and social psychology.

The scientist's scholarly output includes significant contributions to topics such as schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, digital mental health interventions, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health treatment and access, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Valmaggia's recent papers illustrate a focus on mental health and innovative clinical tools:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health, 2024, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Virtual reality as a clinical tool in mental health research and practice, 2020, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
  • Virtual reality relaxation for the general population: a systematic review, 2021, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Development of Proteomic Prediction Models for Transition to Psychotic Disorder in the Clinical High-Risk State and Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Worldwide implementation of clinical services for the prevention of psychosis: The IEPA early intervention in mental health survey, 2020, Early Intervention in Psychiatry

The venues where Valmaggia has most frequently published include:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several notable co-authors, including:

  • Philip McGuire
  • Matthew J. Kempton
  • Mark van der Gaag
  • Lieuwe de Haan
  • Stephan Ruhrmann

Best Publications

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • Predicting Psychosis: Meta-analysis of Transition Outcomes in Individuals at High Clinical Risk

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Ilaria Bonoldi;Alison R. Yung;Stefan Borgwardt

  • Elevated Striatal Dopamine Function Linked to Prodromal Signs of Schizophrenia

    Oliver D Howes;Andrew J Montgomery;Marie-Claude Asselin;Robin M Murray

  • Comorbid Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in 509 Individuals With an At-Risk Mental State: Impact on Psychopathology and Transition to Psychosis

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Barnaby Nelson;Lucia Valmaggia;Alison R. Yung

  • The five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale - II: A ten-fold cross-validation of a revised model

    Mark van der Gaag;Tonko Hoffman;Mila Remijsen;Ron Hijman

  • Virtual reality in the psychological treatment for mental health problems: An systematic review of recent evidence.

    Lucia R. Valmaggia;Leila Latif;Matthew J. Kempton;Maria Rus-Calafell

  • Dopamine synthesis capacity before onset of psychosis: a prospective [18F]-DOPA PET imaging study.

    Oliver D. Howes;Subrata K. Bose;Federico Turkheimer;Isabel Valli

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health

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  • Deconstructing vulnerability for psychosis: Meta-analysis of environmental risk factors for psychosis in subjects at ultra high-risk

    P. Fusar-Poli;M. Tantardini;S. De Simone;V. Ramella-Cravaro

  • Stress Sensitivity, Aberrant Salience, and Threat Anticipation in Early Psychosis: An Experience Sampling Study

    Ulrich Reininghaus;Ulrich Reininghaus;Matthew J. Kempton;Lucia Valmaggia;Tom K. J. Craig

  • The effects of individually tailored formulation-based cognitive behavioural therapy in auditory hallucinations and delusions: a meta-analysis.

    Mark van der Gaag;Lucia R. Valmaggia;Lucia R. Valmaggia;Filip Smit

  • Virtual reality in the assessment and treatment of psychosis: a systematic review of its utility, acceptability and effectiveness

    Mar Rus-Calafell;P. Garety;E. Sason;T. J. K. Craig

  • Progressive increase in striatal dopamine synthesis capacity as patients develop psychosis: a PET study.

    O Howes;S Bose;F Turkheimer;I Valli

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • Virtual reality as a clinical tool in mental health research and practice .

    Imogen H Bell;Jennifer Nicholas;Mario Alvarez-Jimenez;Andrew Thompson

  • Delusion formation and reasoning biases in those at clinical high risk for psychosis.

    M R Broome;L C Johns;I Valli;J B Woolley

  • Superior temporal lobe dysfunction and frontotemporal dysconnectivity in subjects at risk of psychosis and in first-episode psychosis

    Nicolas Crossley;Andrea Mechelli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Matthew Broome

  • Alterations in White Matter Evident Before the Onset of Psychosis

    Francesco Carletti;James B. Woolley;Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Rocio Perez-Iglesias

  • Outreach and support in South London (OASIS), 2001–2011: Ten years of early diagnosis and treatment for young individuals at high clinical risk for psychosis

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Majella Byrne;Majella Byrne;Steven Badger;Steven Badger;Lucia Valmaggia;Lucia Valmaggia

  • Outreach and support in south London (OASIS): implementation of a clinical service for prodromal psychosis and the at risk mental state.

    Matthew R. Broome;James B. Woolley;Louise C. Johns;Lucia R. Valmaggia

  • Disorganization/Cognitive and Negative Symptom Dimensions in the At-Risk Mental State Predict Subsequent Transition to Psychosis

    Arsime Demjaha;Lucia Valmaggia;Daniel Stahl;Majella Byrne

  • The five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale I: confirmatory factor analysis fails to confirm 25 published five-factor solutions.

    Mark van der Gaag;Anke Cuijpers;Tonko Hoffman;Mila Remijsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Louise Johns
Louise Johns University of Oxford
Philippa Garety
Philippa Garety King's College London
Mark van der Gaag
Mark van der Gaag Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Ulrich Reininghaus
Ulrich Reininghaus Heidelberg University
Marie-Odile Krebs
Marie-Odile Krebs Université Paris Cité
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Neus Barrantes-Vidal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London

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