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Paolo Santonastaso

Paolo Santonastaso

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Overview

Paolo Santonastaso is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and specializes in the field of psychology with a focus on clinical psychology. The scientist's research encompasses a variety of psychological and mental health topics, particularly relating to eating disorders and behavioral health. Their work also covers aspects of social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as the intersections of sociology and political science.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

Throughout recent years, Paolo Santonastaso has contributed to several publications spanning from 2022 to 2024. Notable paper titles along with their publication year and venues are:

  • One year of COVID-19 pandemic on patients with eating disorders, healthy sisters, and community women: evidence of psychological vulnerabilities, 2022, published in Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • A Multicenter Network Analysis Examining the Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Eating Disorders versus Their Healthy Siblings, 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mental health: a cross-sectional study on eating disorder patients and their unaffected siblings, 2024, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • What do Italian healthcare professionals think about orthorexia nervosa? Results from a multicenter survey, 2022, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • When time worsens framing: a longitudinal analysis of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in women with an eating disorder and their healthy sisters, 2023, Archives of Women's Mental Health

Santonastaso frequently publishes in venues such as Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Archives of Women's Mental Health. Further distribution of works includes contributions to venues like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Collaboration with other researchers is a significant part of their academic activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Paolo Meneguzzo
  • Enrico Ceccato
  • Alessandra Sala
  • Alessio Ajello
  • Mauro Domenico Consolati

The scientist's body of work largely revolves around understanding psychological vulnerabilities, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on eating disorders and the mental health impacts on patients and related groups such as healthy siblings and community members. Their research also extends to topics of youth mental health, healthcare professional perspectives, and longitudinal psychological effects.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, incidence and mortality from cardiovascular disease in patients with pooled and specific severe mental illness: a large-scale meta-analysis of 3,211,768 patients and 113,383,368 controls.

    Christoph U. Correll;Marco Solmi;Nicola Veronese;Beatrice Bortolato

  • 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

  • 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

  • The spectrum of eating disorders in young women: a prevalence study in a general population sample.

    Angela Favaro;Silvia Ferrara;Paolo Santonastaso

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • Time Trends in Age at Onset of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

    Angela Favaro;Lorenza Caregaro;Elena Tenconi;Romina Bosello

  • Interplay Among Psychopathologic Variables, Personal Resources, Context-Related Factors, and Real-life Functioning in Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Network Analysis.

    Silvana Galderisi;Paola Rucci;Brian Kirkpatrick;Armida Mucci

  • Set-shifting abilities, central coherence, and handedness in anorexia nervosa patients, their unaffected siblings and healthy controls: Exploring putative endophenotypes

    Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso;Daniela Degortes;Romina Bosello

  • Suicidality in eating disorders: clinical and psychological correlates

    A. Favaro;P. Santonastaso

  • Perinatal factors and the risk of developing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Elena Tenconi;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Self-injurious behavior in anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Impulsive and Compulsive Self-Injurious Behavior in Bulimia Nervosa: Prevalence and Psychological Correlates

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Inflammatory cytokines and anorexia nervosa: A meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

    Marco Solmi;Nicola Veronese;Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Life events and psychological distress in dermatologic disorders: Psoriasis, chronic urticaria and fungal infections

    Giovanni A. Fava;Giulia I. Perini;Paolo Santonastaso;Cleto Veller Fornasa

  • Olanzapine therapy in anorexia nervosa: psychobiological effects.

    Francesca Brambilla;Cristina Segura Garcia;Secondo Fassino;Giovanni Abbate Daga

  • Disruption of visuospatial and somatosensory functional connectivity in anorexia nervosa.

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso;Renzo Manara;Romina Bosello

  • Full and partial syndromes in eating disorders: A 1-year prospective study of risk factors among female students.

    Paolo Santonastaso;Silvia Friederici;Angela Favaro

  • Purging behaviors, suicide attempts, and psychiatric symptoms in 398 eating disordered subjects

    Angela Favaro;Paolo Santonastaso

  • Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Multi-Element Psychosocial Intervention for First-Episode Psychosis: Results From the Cluster-Randomized Controlled GET UP PIANO Trial in a Catchment Area of 10 Million Inhabitants

    Mirella Ruggeri;Chiara Bonetto;Antonio Lasalvia;Angelo Fioritti

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in heart transplantation recipients: the relationship with outcome and adherence to medical treatment

    Angela Favaro;Gino Gerosa;Alida L.P. Caforio;Biancarosa Volpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Favaro
Angela Favaro University of Padua
Elena Tenconi
Elena Tenconi University of Padua
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip Gorwood
Philip Gorwood Université Paris Cité
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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