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Overview

Luigi Grassi is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy, focusing primarily on research within medicine and psychology. Their work extensively covers psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's publications emphasize several main research topics, including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Palliative care and end-of-life issues
  • Childhood cancer survivors' quality of life
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Mental health research topics
  • Family support in illness

Among recent papers authored by Luigi Grassi are:

  • "Anxiety and depression in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline," 2023, published in ESMO Open
  • "Psychiatric and psychosocial implications in cancer care: the agenda of psycho-oncology," 2020, published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • "Violence Against Physicians in the Workplace: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Intervention," 2022, published in Current Psychiatry Reports
  • "Cancer and severe mental illness: Bi-directional problems and potential solutions," 2020, published in Psycho-Oncology
  • "Quality of life, level of functioning, and its relationship with mental and physical disorders in the elderly: results from the MentDis_ICF65+ study," 2020, published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Luigi Grassi collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Martino Belvederi Murri, Rosangela Caruso, Luigi Zerbinati, Federica Folesani, and Maria Giulia Nanni.

Their work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Psycho-Oncology
  • Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

The scientist has also contributed to academic book publishing, with titles including The Complex Role of Patient Trust in Oncology, published by Springer International Publishing in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorder in oncological, haematological, and palliative-care settings: a meta-analysis of 94 interview-based studies

    Alex J Mitchell;Alex J Mitchell;Melissa Chan;Henna Bhatti;Marie Halton

  • The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease

    William J. Astle;Heather Elding;Heather Elding;Tao Jiang;Dave Allen

  • Lineage-Specific Genome Architecture Links Enhancers and Non-coding Disease Variants to Target Gene Promoters

    Biola M Javierre;Oliver S Burren;Steven P Wilder;Roman Kreuzhuber

  • The expanding role of primary care in cancer control

    Greg Rubin;Annette Berendsen;S Michael Crawford;Rachel Dommett

  • Depression in HIV Infected Patients: a Review

    Maria Giulia Nanni;Maria Giulia Nanni;Rosangela Caruso;Rosangela Caruso;Alex J. Mitchell;Elena Meggiolaro

  • Validation of the Distress Thermometer worldwide: state of the science

    Kristine A. Donovan;Luigi Grassi;Heather L. McGinty;Paul B. Jacobsen

  • Detection of Atherosclerotic Inflammation by 68Ga-DOTATATE PET Compared to [18F]FDG PET Imaging

    Jason M. Tarkin;Francis R. Joshi;Nicholas R. Evans;Mohammed M. Chowdhury

  • Prevalence of mental disorders in elderly people: the European MentDis_ICF65+ study

    Sylke Andreas;Holger Schulz;Jana Volkert;Maria Dehoust

  • Psychiatric morbidity and burnout in the medical profession: an Italian study of general practitioners and hospital physicians.

    Luigi Grassi;Katia Magnani

  • Management of Delirium in Palliative Care: a Review

    Luigi Grassi;Luigi Grassi;Augusto Caraceni;Alex J. Mitchell;Maria Giulia Nanni;Maria Giulia Nanni

  • Physicians' attitudes to and problems with truth-telling to cancer patients.

    L. Grassi;T. Giraldi;E. G. Messina;K. Magnani

  • Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life in Home-Care-Assisted Cancer Patients

    Luigi Grassi;Monica Indelli;Marina Marzola;Antonio Maestri

  • The burden of psychosocial morbidity related to cancer: patient and family issues.

    Rosangela Caruso;Maria Giulia Nanni;Michelle B. Riba;Silvana Sabato

  • Advancing psychosocial care in cancer patients.

    Luigi Grassi;David Spiegel;Michelle Riba

  • Prescribing patterns of antidepressants in Europe: results from the Factors Influencing Depression Endpoints Research (FINDER) study.

    Michael Bauer;Brigitta U. Monz;Angel L. Montejo;Deborah Quail

  • Use of distress and depression thermometers to measure psychosocial morbidity among southern European cancer patients

    Francisco Gil;Luigi Grassi;Luzia Travado;Michele Tomamichel

  • Depressive spectrum disorders in cancer: prevalence, risk factors and screening for depression: a critical review.

    Rosangela Caruso;Maria Giulia Nanni;M. Riba;Silvana Sabato

  • Assessing demoralization and depression in the setting of medical disease.

    Lara Mangelli;Giovanni A. Fava;Silvana Grandi;Luigi Grassi

  • Characteristics of violent behaviour in acute psychiatric in-patients: a 5-year Italian study

    Luigi Grassi;Luana Peron;Claudio Marangoni;Pierluigi Zanchi

  • Anxiety Disorders in Old Age: Psychiatric Comorbidities, Quality of Life, and Prevalence According to Age, Gender, and Country

    Alessandra Canuto;Kerstin Weber;Marc Baertschi;Sylke Andreas;Sylke Andreas;Sylke Andreas

  • Use of the diagnostic criteria for psychosomatic research in oncology.

    Luigi Grassi;Silvana Sabato;Elena Rossi;Bruno Biancosino

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Giovanni A. Fava
Giovanni A. Fava University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Martino Belvederi Murri
Martino Belvederi Murri University of Ferrara
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg
Piero Porcelli
Piero Porcelli University of Chieti-Pescara
Angelo Picardi
Angelo Picardi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Chiara Rafanelli
Chiara Rafanelli University of Bologna
Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Silvana Grandi
Silvana Grandi University of Bologna

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