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Domenico DeBerardis
Italy
Domenico De Berardis was born in Teramo, 1968. He works as Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the "real world" clinical practice at the NHS Department of Mental Health, Psychiatric Service of Diagnosis and Treatment, Hospital “G. Mazzini”, ASL 4 Teramo, Italy and collaborates independently with the Institute of Psychiatry of G. d’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He received his medical degree from and completed his psychiatric residency at the University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti. Moreover, he completed a post-graduate course in “Addiction Medicine” at the University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti, has attained a Ph.D. in “Functional Neuroimaging” at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB) of the University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti and achieved a master in “Clinical Psychopharmacology” at the Scientific Institute and University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan. He has also achieved a master in “Healthcare Communication” in 2013 at University of Teramo and had attended in the same year the “Schizophrenia Masterclass” at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (director: Prof. E. Vieta). He is specialized in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and works also as psychotherapist mainly treating patients with personality disorders and OCD. He was and actually is the principal investigator of several research projects, mostly related to alexithymia, anxiety disorders, suicide, schizophrenia, neuroimaging and clinical psychopharmacology. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, for an h-index of 17, and has frequently participated in national and international congresses as a speaker or through oral or written communications. His professional activities also include the reviewing of scientific manuscripts for high-impact journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of ISRN Psychiatry, Annals of Depression and Anxiety, International Journal of Clinical Toxicology, Clinical Medical Image Library, International Journal of Neurology and Neurotherapy, Journal of Sleep Disorders and Management, Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy Research and Journal of Sleep Medicine and Disorders. He is Associate Editor of Research and Advances in Psychiatry and Academic Editor of British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research.
clinical psychiatry, alexithymia, emotions, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, functional magnetic resonance, clinical psychopharmacology.