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Raffaella Zanardi is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including biological psychiatry, pharmacology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The primary topics explored in Zanardi's research include:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Treatment of major depression
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Mental health research topics
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum

Notable recent publications by Zanardi and collaborators illustrate the focus on mood disorders and neuropsychiatric conditions. These include:

  • All roads lead to the default-mode network-global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • A peripheral inflammatory signature discriminates bipolar from unipolar depression: A machine learning approach, 2020, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Rapid response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in post-COVID depression, 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Treating bipolar depression with esketamine: Safety and effectiveness data from a naturalistic multicentric study on esketamine in bipolar versus unipolar treatment-resistant depression, 2023, Bipolar Disorders
  • Higher baseline interleukin-1β and TNF-α hamper antidepressant response in major depressive disorder, 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology

Zanardi frequently collaborates with several researchers, reflecting an active network within clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. Among the main coauthors are Francesco Benedetti, Sara Poletti, Cristina Colombo, Cristina Lorenzi, and Marco Paolini.

Publications by Zanardi often appear in specialized neuroscience and psychiatry journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Neuroscience Applied
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychiatry Research

The body of work contributed by Zanardi is characterized by interdisciplinary approaches to mental health, particularly involving the biological underpinnings and treatment responses of depressive and bipolar disorders. The research covers both clinical interventions and molecular mechanisms, often integrating neuroimaging, pharmacological, and immunological perspectives to better understand disease processes.

Best Publications

  • Polymorphism within the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene and antidepressant efficacy of fluvoxamine.

    E Smeraldi;R Zanardi;F Benedetti;D Di Bella;D Di Bella

  • Efficacy of paroxetine in depression is influenced by a functional polymorphism within the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Francesco Benedetti;Daniela Di Bella;Marco Catalano

  • Factors affecting fluvoxamine antidepressant activity: influence of pindolol and 5-HTTLPR in delusional and nondelusional depression.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Alessandro Serretti;David Rossini;Linda Franchini

  • How long should pindolol be associated with paroxetine to improve the antidepressant response

    Raffaella Zanardi;Francesc Artigas;Linda Franchini;Laura Sforzini

  • Influence of tryptophan hydroxylase and serotonin transporter genes on fluvoxamine antidepressant activity.

    A Serretti;R Zanardi;D Rossini;C Cusin

  • All roads lead to the default-mode network—global source of DMN abnormalities in major depressive disorder

    Andrea Scalabrini;Benedetta Vai;Sara Poletti;Stefano Damiani

  • Tryptophan hydroxylase gene associated with paroxetine antidepressant activity.

    Alessandro Serretti;Raffaella Zanardi;Cristina Cusin;David Rossini

  • Insomnia improvement during antidepressant treatment and CLOCK gene polymorphism

    Alessandro Serretti;Cristina Cusin;Francesco Benedetti;Laura Mandelli

  • Double-blind controlled trial of sertraline versus paroxetine in the treatment of delusional depression.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Linda Franchini;Mariangela Gasperini;Jorge Perez

  • The C(-1019)G polymorphism of the 5-HT1A gene promoter and antidepressant response in mood disorders: preliminary findings.

    Alessandro Serretti;Paola Artioli;Cristina Lorenzi;Adele Pirovano

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in treatment-resistant depressed patients: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    David Rossini;Adelio Lucca;Raffaella Zanardi;Lorenzo Magri

  • Fluvoxamine alone in the treatment of delusional depression.

    Flavia Gatti;Laura Bellini;Mariangela Gasperini;Jorge Perez

  • Faster onset of action of fluvoxamine in combination with pindolol in the treatment of delusional depression: a controlled study.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Linda Franchini;Mariangela Gasperini;Adelio Lucca

  • Influence of monoamine oxidase A and serotonin receptor 2A polymorphisms in SSRI antidepressant activity

    Cristina Cusin;Alessandro Serretti;Raffaella Zanardi;Enrico Lattuada

  • Does rTMS Hasten the Response to Escitalopram, Sertraline, or Venlafaxine in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder? A Double-Blind, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial

    David Rossini;Lorenzo Magri;Adelio Lucca;Silvia Giordani

  • Early onset of lithium prophylaxis as a predictor of good long-term outcome.

    L. Franchini;R. Zanardi;E. Smeraldi;M. Gasperini

  • The influence of Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism (SERTPR) and other polymorphisms of the serotonin pathway on the efficacy of antidepressant treatments

    Alessandro Serretti;Francesco Benedetti;Raffaella Zanardi;Enrico Smeraldi

  • SSRIs antidepressant activity is influenced by Gβ3 variants

    Alessandro Serretti;Cristina Lorenzi;Cristina Cusin;Raffaella Zanardi

  • Venlafaxine versus fluvoxamine in the treatment of delusional depression: a pilot double-blind controlled study.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Linda Franchini;Alessandro Serretti;Jorge Perez

  • 5-HT 2A receptor binding is reduced in drug-naive and unchanged in SSRI-responder depressed patients compared to healthy controls: a PET study

    Cristina Messa;Cristina Colombo;Rosa Maria Moresco;Clara Gobbo

  • ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Polymorphism within the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene and antidepressant efficacy of fluvoxamine

    E Smeraldi;R Zanardi;F Benedetti;D Di Bella

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
Cristina Colombo
Cristina Colombo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sara Poletti
Sara Poletti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Benedetta Vai
Benedetta Vai IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Igor Branchi
Igor Branchi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Irene Bollettini
Irene Bollettini San Raffaele Hospital
Katharine A. Phillips
Katharine A. Phillips Cornell University
Silvia Giordani
Silvia Giordani Dublin City University
Fabio Macciardi
Fabio Macciardi University of California, Irvine

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