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Ygor Arzeno Ferrão is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Ygor Arzeno Ferrão has published extensively in several notable venues, such as:

  • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry
  • Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Recent papers include:

  • Towards a definitive symptom structure of obsessive−compulsive disorder: a factor and network analysis of 87 distinct symptoms in 1366 individuals, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Instruments to assess suicide risk: a systematic review, 2020, Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Predictors of suicide attempt in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory study with machine learning analysis, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Appraising the effectiveness of electrical and magnetic brain stimulation techniques in acute major depressive episodes: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, 2020, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Stressful Life Events and the Clinical Expression of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): An Exploratory Study, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Leonardo F. Fontenelle
  • Eurípedes Constantino Miguel
  • Maria Conceição do Rosário
  • Roseli Gedanke Shavitt
  • Lucy Albertella

Best Publications

  • The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS): an instrument for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.

    M C Rosario-Campos;M C Rosario-Campos;E C Miguel;S Quatrano;P Chacon

  • Should an obsessive–compulsive spectrum grouping of disorders be included in DSM‐V?

    Katharine A. Phillips;Dan J. Stein M.D.;Scott L Rauch;Eric Hollander

  • Clinical features associated to refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Ygor A. Ferrao;Rosell G. Shavitt;Nadia R. Bedin;Maria Eugenia de Mathis

  • Comorbidity, age of onset and suicidality in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): An international collaboration☆☆☆

    V. Brakoulias;V. Starcevic;A. Belloch;C. Brown

  • Sensory phenomena associated with repetitive behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory study of 1001 patients.

    Ygor Arzeno Ferrão;Roseli Gedanke Shavitt;Helena Prado;Leonardo F. Fontenelle

  • Suicidality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence and relation to symptom dimensions and comorbid conditions.

    Albina Rodrigues Torres;Ana Teresa A. Ramos-Cerqueira;Ygor A. Ferrão;Leonardo F. Fontenelle

  • The Brazilian Research Consortium on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders : recruitment, assessment instruments, methods for the development of multicenter collaborative studies and preliminary results

    Eurípedes Constantino Miguel;Ygor Arzeno Ferrão;Maria Conceição do Rosário;Maria Conceição do Rosário;Maria Alice de Mathis

  • Towards a post-traumatic subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Leonardo F Fontenelle;Luca Cocchi;Ben J Harrison;Roseli Gedanke Shavitt

  • Tourette's syndrome, trichotillomania, and obsessive–compulsive disorder: How closely are they related?

    Ygor Arzeno Ferrão;Euripedes Miguel;Dan Joseph Stein;Dan Joseph Stein

  • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Influence of Age at Onset on Comorbidity Patterns

    Maria Alice de Mathis;Maria Conceição do Rosario;Maria Conceição do Rosario;Juliana Belo Diniz;Albina Rodrigues Torres

  • Comorbidity variation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder according to symptom dimensions: Results from a large multicentre clinical sample

    Albina R. Torres;Leonardo F. Fontenelle;Roseli Gedanke Shavitt;Ygor A. Ferrão

  • Eating disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence and clinical correlates.

    Paulo C Sallet;Pedro Gomes De Alvarenga;Ygor A. Ferrão;Maria Alice de Mathis

  • Defining clinical severity in adults with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Eric A. Storch;Alessandro S. De Nadai;Maria Conceição Do Rosário;Roseli Gedanke Shavitt

  • Comorbid major depression in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients

    Lucas de Castro Quarantini;Lucas de Castro Quarantini;Albina Rodrigues Torres;Aline S. Sampaio;Victor Fossaluza

  • Trajectory in obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidities.

    Maria Alice de Mathis;Juliana B. Diniz;Ana G. Hounie;Roseli G. Shavitt

  • Clinical features associated with treatment response in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Roseli Gedanke Shavitt;Cristina Belotto;Mariana Cúri;Ana Gabriela Hounie

  • ‘Impulsive compulsivity’ in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A phenotypic marker of patients with poor clinical outcome

    Himani Kashyap;Leonardo F Fontenelle;Euripedes Constantino Miguel;Ygor Arzeno Ferrao

  • Sex differences in the phenotypic expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory study from Brazil.

    Ricardo Cezar Torresan;Ana Teresa de Abreu Ramos-Cerqueira;Maria Alice de Mathis;Juliana Belo Diniz

  • Dimensional correlates of poor insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Ewgeni Jakubovski;Christopher Pittenger;Albina Rodrigues Torres;Leonardo Franklin Fontenelle

  • Clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder with hoarding symptoms: A multicenter study

    Albina Rodrigues Torres;Leonardo F. Fontenelle;Ygor A. Ferrão;Maria Conceição do Rosário

  • Treatment of resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder with ventral capsular/ventral striatal gamma capsulotomy: a pilot prospective study.

    Antonio Carlos Lopes;Benjamin D. Greenberg;Georg Noren;Miguel Montes Canteras

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Albina Rodrigues Torres
Albina Rodrigues Torres Sao Paulo State University
Juliana Belo Diniz
Juliana Belo Diniz Universidade de São Paulo
Donatella Marazziti
Donatella Marazziti University of Pisa
Vladan Starcevic
Vladan Starcevic University of Sydney
Eric A. Storch
Eric A. Storch Baylor College of Medicine
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Mauro V. Mendlowicz
Mauro V. Mendlowicz Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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