We are a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and brain imagers. Our group focuses its research on the investigation of the neurobiological mechanisms that predispose to the onset of psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. To this aim, we collect and analyze clinical, environmental, neuropsychological and brain MRI data.

Cosa studiamo

• Brain structure in psychiatric patients and in healthy subjects employing novel neuroimaging analyses (voxel-based morphometry, gyrification index, cortical thickness, fractal dimension, source-based morphometry);
• Brain function both at rest and during the performance of a task in psychiatric patients and in healthy subjects;
• Neuroimaging alterations in subjects at genetic risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia;
• Neural correlates of treatment response in psychiatric patients;
• Psychopathological alterations in psychiatric patients and their correlations with neuroimaging abnormalities;
• Genetics (Risk scores, intermediate phenotype)

Staff

Fabio Sambataro, MD, PhD
Position: Associate Professor
Background: Psychiatry
Interests: MRI, fMRI, imaging analyses, genetics, clinical psychiatry
E-mail: fabio.sambataro@unipd.it

Nicolò Trevisan
Position: PhD Student
Background: Psychology …
Interests: MRI, fMRI, imaging analyses, genetics
E-mail: nicolo-trevisan@studenti.unipd.it

Giulia Cattarinussi, MD
Position: PhD Student
Background: Psychiatry
Interests: MRI, fMRI, mood disorders, psychosis, psychopharmacology, genetics
E-mail: giulia.cattarinussi@studenti.unipd.it

Alessandro Miola, MD
Position: PhD Student
Background: Psychiatry
Interests: MRI, fMRI, mood disorders, TMS
E-mail: alessandro.miola@studenti.unipd.it

Pubblicazioni

The studies performed by our Lab have been published in the world's leading journals in the fields of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
For an updated list of our published work, please visit : https://tinyurl.com/dfw45sz6

Contatti
PhD, Department of Neuroscience (DNS), Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, I-35128 Padua, Italy;
Tel: +39 0498211980,
Email: Fabio.sambataro@unipd.it

Funding
PRIN, Fondazione Giancarlo Quarta

Collaborazioni
University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
University of Milano, Milan, Italy
Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom