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Mario Maj is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research predominantly lies at the intersection of medicine and psychology, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Maj's scholarly output includes a significant emphasis on schizophrenia research and treatment, bipolar disorder and its treatment, mental health topics, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to a range of academic journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • European Psychiatry
  • World Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Schizophrenia Research

Maj's work encompasses numerous papers, with notable recent publications such as:

  • The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management, 2021, World Psychiatry

Other important papers in related fields, though authored by other researchers and frequently cited in their domain, include:

  • Treatment-resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions, 2023, World Psychiatry
  • Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders in the ICD-11: an international perspective on key changes and controversies, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration, 2022, World Psychiatry

Collaboration forms an integral part of Maj's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Palmiero Monteleone
  • Silvana Galderisi
  • Giulia Maria Giordano
  • Alessandro Rossi
  • Paola Rocca

Maj's publication record showcases interdisciplinary research spanning medical and psychological dimensions of psychiatric disorders, emphasizing personalized patient management in mood and psychotic disorders.

Best Publications

  • No health without mental health.

    Martin Prince;Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Mario Maj

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: a blueprint for protecting physical health in people with mental illness

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Najma Siddiqi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Dan J Siskind

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • The inflammatory & neurodegenerative (I&ND) hypothesis of depression: leads for future research and new drug developments in depression

    Michael Maes;Raz Yirmyia;Jens Noraberg;Stefan Brene

  • Physical illness and schizophrenia: a review of the literature

    S Leucht;T Burkard;J Henderson;M Maj

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders: a multilevel intervention framework and priorities for clinical practice, policy and research agendas

    Nancy H. Liu;Nancy H. Liu;Gail L. Daumit;Tarun Dua;Ralph Aquila

  • Regulation, function, and dysregulation of endocannabinoids in models of adipose and beta-pancreatic cells and in obesity and hyperglycemia.

    Isabel Matias;Marie-Paule Gonthier;Pierangelo Orlando;Vassilis Martiadis

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • Nomenclature and research case definitions for neurologic manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) infection

    Robert S. Janssen;David R. Cornblath;Leon G. Epstein;Richard P. Foa

  • Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

    Mirko Manchia;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula;Raffaella Ardau

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • The influence of illness-related variables, personal resources and context-related factors on real-life functioning of people with schizophrenia

    Silvana Galderisi;Alessandro Rossi;Paola Rocca;Alessandro Bertolino

  • Comorbid somatic illnesses in patients with severe mental disorders: clinical, policy, and research challenges.

    W Wolfgang Fleischhacker;Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas;Marc De Hert;Charles H Hennekens

  • Reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders: a WPA survey.

    Vikram Patel;Mario Maj;Alan J Flisher;Mary J De Silva

  • The WPA-WHO Global Survey of Psychiatrists’ Attitudes Towards Mental Disorders Classification

    Geoffrey M. Reed;João Mendonça Correia;Patricia Esparza;Shekhar Saxena

  • Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study

    Liping Hou;Urs Heilbronner;Urs Heilbronner;Franziska Degenhardt;Mazda Adli

  • Burden on the families of patients with schizophrenia: results of the BIOMED I study.

    Lorenza Magliano;G. Fadden;M. Madianos;J. M. de Almeida

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Palmiero Monteleone
Palmiero Monteleone University of Salerno
Silvana Galderisi
Silvana Galderisi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Armida Mucci
Armida Mucci University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Lorenza Magliano
Lorenza Magliano University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Alessandro Rossi
Alessandro Rossi University of L'Aquila
Alessio Maria Monteleone
Alessio Maria Monteleone University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Paola Rocca
Paola Rocca University of Turin
Paolo Stratta
Paolo Stratta University of L'Aquila
Geoffrey M. Reed
Geoffrey M. Reed Columbia University
Paolo Santonastaso
Paolo Santonastaso University of Padua

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