Maria Grazia Marinangeli's research while affiliated with Università degli Studi dell'Aquila and other places

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Objective: Aim of the study was to investigate the presence of gender differences in the prevalence of Personality Disorders (PDs) in a sample of psychiatric inpatients. Methods: The sample consisted of 400 subjects between the ages of 18 and 65 years, consecutively admitted to a psychiatric unit, on a voluntary basis, for an index episode. All sub...
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It is well documented that premorbid behavior abnormalities precede the onset of schizophrenia in a large number of patients. The research findings suggest that there are differences in the type and severity of these premorbid dysfunctions. Another research field has shown impairment of preschizophrenic patients in several cognitive domains. The pr...
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The association of mood disorders with personality disorders (PDs) is relevant from a clinical, therapeutic and prognostic point of view. To examine this issue, we compared the prevalence of DSM-III-R personality disorders assessed with SCID-II in patients with depressive (n 5 117) and bipolar (n 5 71) disorders both recovered from a major depressi...
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The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of comorbidity among obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and other personality disorders (PDs) in a sample of 400 psychiatric inpatients. PDs were assessed using the Semistructured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II). Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated to dete...
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This study is a retrospective report of childhood and adolescence neurobehavioral assessment in patients with schizophrenia and their healthy siblings using the Childhood Behavior Checklist (CBCL). The CBCL ratings were obtained from retrospective maternal reports, for five age periods (birth to 3years, 4-7years, 8-11years, 12-15years and 16-18year...
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The aim of this study was to asses type and prevalence of Personality Disorders (PDs) and their patterns of comorbidity with Axis I disorders in a sample of psychiatric inpatients. The sample consisted of 300 subjects admitted to a psychiatric unit on a voluntary bases for an index episode. The study was conducted over a period of 12 months, from 1...
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The present study was designed specifically to assess the relationship between brain morphology and outcome in schizophrenia. Fifty-six schizophrenic patients and a matched group of 32 healthy subjects were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scans. Clinical assessment included the Krawiecka-Manchester Scale (K-MS) and the Outcome scale by...
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The aim of this study was to examine patterns of comorbidity among personality disorders (PDs) in a sample of 156 psychiatric inpatients. PDs were assessed with Semistructured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders. To determine significant co-occurrence among axis II diagnoses, odds ratio and the percent of co-occurrence of pairs o...
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Objective: The present study was designed specifically to assess the relationship between brain morphology and outcome in schizophrenia. Methods: Fifty-six schizophrenic patients and a matched group of 32 healthy subjects were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scans. Clinical assessment included the Krawiecka–Manchester Scale (K-MS) and...
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The aim of this study was to verify the construct validity of the Italian version of Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) a questionnaire which estimates the parental style as reported by the son or daughter. The questionnaire was administered to a group of 102 students (62 males and 40 females) attending University of L'Aquila and to a sample of 128...
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'Working memory' dysfunction has been proposed as a central cognitive feature in schizophrenia. To further explore this issue we developed a computerized easy and fast to administer test using the standard keyboard as visual-manual subject-computer interface along a delayed-response paradigm. The test has been administered to 25 patients who met th...

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... On the other hand, our study also found that cluster C PDs were associated with BD conversion, an association that has not previously been examined. Previous studies have reported that obsessive-compulsive PD is the most frequently linked to BD [5,38]; this disorder falls within cluster C PDs, which may explain our findings. ...
... arlier in the course of illness . An alternative proposition would be that abnormal ratios of NAA / Cr are predictive of a poor prognosis , implying that as long as metabolic changes are not present a better clinical outcome can be expected . While there is some evidence for the prognostic value of structural brain imaging ( Wassink et al . 1999 ; Rossi et al . 2000 ) , the pre - dictive value of metabolic imaging for outcome is still ...
... Psychiatry Research j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / p syc h r e s delay period) (Park and Holzman, 1992;Stratta et al., 1999;Hartman et al., 2002), consequently poor performance by individuals with schizophrenia may be due to difficulties with interference control rather than impaired maintenance over time (Turvey, 1973;Barch and Smith, 2008). In addition, many studies have measured SWM maintenance without controlling for differences in the initial encoding of visuospatial targets; again such studies cannot be unambiguously linked to an impairment in maintenance over time. ...
... Jego rozpowszechnienie w populacji generalnej szacowane jest między 1,6 a 5,9% [2]. Natomiast częstotliwość występowania w grupie pacjentów psychiatrycznych wzrasta do 20% wśród leczonych ambulatoryjnie [3] i nawet do 40% hospitalizowanych stacjonarnie [4]. Rozpoznanie zaburzenia osobowości o typie chwiejnym emocjonalnie trzykrotnie częściej dotyczy płci żeńskiej [5]. ...
... Nowadays, increasing attention is paid to interventional radiology thanks to the most recent innovations in the field of clinical imaging and the progressive and rapid development of technology (19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32), both for diagnostic and interventional purposes (33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52). ...
... The quality of maternal care experienced by children was measured using the Italian version of the Parental Bonding Inventory (PBI 17,20 ). The PBI includes two subscales: one assessing maternal warmth/care and the other assessing maternal overprotection. ...
... Despite being relatively prevalent in the community (9%-11%; Winsper et al., 2020), mental health outpatient (20%-45%; Korzekwa et al., 2008;Zimmerman et al., 2005), psychiatric inpatient (40%-70%; Kovanicova et al., 2020;Marinangeli et al., 2000), and postbasic training military recruit (19%; Oltmanns & Turkheimer, 2006) samples, comparatively few veterans receiving outpatient care within the VHA system have received a PD diagnosis in their medical records (1.2%; Ilgen et al., 2011;McCarthy et al., 2015). There have been few studies specific to suicide risk among veteran and service member populations with PDs. ...
... The raw scores of the 120 problem items are used to calculate scores on eight syndrome subscales (i.e., anxious/depressed, withdrawn/ depressed, somatic complaints, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule-breaking behavior, and aggressive behavior). Standard values vary by country, sex, and age (34)(35)(36); therefore, scores on the subscales are converted to t-scores based on these standard values. To evaluate children's clinical and subclinical characteristics, we administered the new version of CBCL/6-18 (33). ...
... The CBCL has already been used in retrospective sibling studies in schizophrenia (Rossi, Pollice, Daneluzzo, Marinangeli, & Stratta, 2000) and in a study investigating the predictive value of retrospective behavioural data on childhood and adolescence behaviour of preschizophrenic children (Rossi et al., 2002). ...
... Addressing the second aim, we report a significant association between OCPD and higher levels of burnout symptoms both during the patient's initial visit to the clinic and during the follow-up. Previous studies examining the prevalence of OCPD in clinical populations show great heterogeneity where OCPD has been found to have a prevalence around 9% in a psychiatric outpatient population (Zimmerman et al., 2005) and 28% in a psychiatric inpatients population (de Reus & Emmelkamp, 2012; Rossi et al., 2000). For patients suffering from major depression, the prevalence rate for OCPD varies between around 9% (Zimmerman et al., 2005) and 28% ...