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Overview

Marco Picchioni is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans significant topics within psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry. Picchioni's scholarly output reflects expertise in schizophrenia research and treatment, forensic psychiatry, and related mental health conditions.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Subfields highlighting their research interests and academic focus are:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Genetics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Philosophy

Main research topics covered by Picchioni's publications include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Recent papers by Picchioni reflect collaborative work with coauthors across related fields and cover a range of interdisciplinary topics. Notable publications include:

  • "Intelligence, educational attainment, and brain structure in those at familial high-risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder," 2020, published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Genetic copy number variants, cognition and psychosis: a meta-analysis and a family study," 2020, published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Neurocognition and social cognition in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders with and without a history of violence: results of a multinational European study," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "A multinational case−control study comparing forensic and non-forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: the EU-VIORMED project," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "A Systematic Review of Non-pharmacological Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Violence in Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders in Forensic Settings," 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors in Picchioni's research include:

  • Giovanni de Girolamo
  • Johannes Wancata
  • Laura Iozzino
  • Janusz Heitzman
  • Paweł Gosek

Publication venues commonly featuring Picchioni's work include:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Disruption of the neurexin 1 gene is associated with schizophrenia

    Dan Rujescu;Andres Ingason;Andres Ingason;Sven Cichon;Olli P.H. Pietiläinen

  • Disease-associated epigenetic changes in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Emma L. Dempster;Ruth Pidsley;Leonard C. Schalkwyk;Sheena Owens

  • Altered connections on the road to psychopathy

    M. C. Craig;M. Catani;Q. Deeley;R. Latham

  • Substantial genetic overlap between neurocognition and schizophrenia: genetic modeling in twin samples

    Timothea Toulopoulou;Timothea Toulopoulou;Marco Picchioni;Fruhling Rijsdijk;Mei Hua-Hall;Mei Hua-Hall

  • A systematic review of the evidence of clozapine's anti-aggressive effects.

    Catherine Frogley;David Taylor;David Taylor;Geoff Dickens;Marco Picchioni

  • Heritability and Reliability of P300, P50 and Duration Mismatch Negativity

    Mei Hua Hall;Katja Schulze;Frühling Rijsdijk;Marco Picchioni

  • Pattern of neural responses to verbal fluency shows diagnostic specificity for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Sergi G Costafreda;Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Marco Picchioni;Timothea Toulopoulou

  • Functional integration between the posterior hippocampus and prefrontal cortex is impaired in both first episode schizophrenia and the at risk mental state

    Stefania Benetti;Andrea Mechelli;Marco Picchioni;Matthew R. Broome

  • Facial Emotion Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Amy E. Mitchell;Geoffrey L. Dickens;Geoffrey L. Dickens;Marco M. Picchioni;Marco M. Picchioni

  • Acoustic noise and functional magnetic resonance imaging: current strategies and future prospects.

    Edson Amaro;Edson Amaro;Steve C.R. Williams;Sukhi S. Shergill;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder

    Frederick Sundram;Frederick Sundram;Quinton Deeley;Sagari Sarkar;Eileen Daly

  • Gender Differences in White Matter Microstructure

    Richard A. Kanaan;Matthew Allin;Marco Picchioni;Gareth J. Barker

  • Impaired intellect and memory: a missing link between genetic risk and schizophrenia?

    Timothea Toulopoulou;Terry E. Goldberg;Irene Rebollo Mesa;Marco Picchioni

  • Altered Integrity of Perisylvian Language Pathways in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Auditory Hallucinations

    Marco Catani;Michael C. Craig;Stephanie J. Forkel;Richard Kanaan

  • Reliability of brain volumes from multicenter MRI acquisition: A calibration study

    Hugo G. Schnack;Neeltje E.M. van Haren;Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol;Marco Picchioni

  • White matter microstructure in schizophrenia: effects of disorder, duration and medication

    Richard Kanaan;Gareth Barker;Michael Brammer;Vincent Giampietro

  • Brain MRI abnormalities in schizophrenia: Same genes or same environment?

    F. V. Rijsdijk;N. E. M. van Haren;M. M. Picchioni;C. McDONALD

  • Substantial Genetic Overlap Between Neurocognition and Schizophrenia

    Timothea Toulopoulou;Marco Picchioni;Fruhling Rijsdijk;Mei Hua-Hall

  • Erratum : Reciprocal causation models of cognitive vs volumetric cerebral intermediate phenotypes for schizophrenia in a pan-European twin cohort (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) 20, 1386-1396; DOI:10.1038/mp.2014.152)

    T. Toulopoulou;N. Van Haren;X. Zhang;P. C. Sham

  • Altered connections on the road to psychopathy

    Meghan Craig;Marco Catani;Quinton Deeley;Richard Kanaan

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Fruhling Rijsdijk
Fruhling Rijsdijk King's College London
Ulrich Ettinger
Ulrich Ettinger University of Bonn
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol
Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol Utrecht University
John Powell
John Powell King's College London
Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
Cathryn M. Lewis
Cathryn M. Lewis King's College London
Maria Arranz
Maria Arranz King's College London

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