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Clinical Neuropsychiatry
Volume 23, issue 4 – August 2026

Co-Editor in chief psychology: Adriano Schimmenti
Co-Editor in chief psychiatry: Alfonso Troisi

Bimonthly journal published by Giovanni Fioriti Editore srl

ISSN PRINT EDITION: 1724-4935, ISSN ONLINE EDITION: 2385-0787 Language: English.

DOI: doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore

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Learning the Boundary Between Involvement and Severity: A Multi-Target Machine-Learning Analysis of Emotion Dysregulation, Impulsivity, Gambling Involvement, and Problem Severity in Psychiatric Outpatients

by Alfredo Gioacchino MariaPio Vecchio, Nicole Dalia Cilia, Giuseppe Maniaci, Adriano Schimmenti, Antonino Costanzo Abstract Objective: Machine-learning studies on gambling have mostly relied on behavioral or account-based data from online gambling platforms....
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Pharmacological Treatment of Olfactory Reference Disorder: A Systematic Review and Historical Analysis of Treatment Patterns

by Ligia M. Fonseca, Verônica Hühne, Murilo Branco, Inês M. Salles-Fonseca, Gabriela B. de Menezesa,, Leonardo F. Fontenelle Abstract bjective: olfactory Reference Disorder (ORD) is characterized by a persistent preoccupation with the belief of emitting...
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Psychometric Assessment of the Vietnamese Maslach Burnout Inventory–Student Survey and Associated Factors Among Health Sciences Students

by Tuyen Do Quang, Hanh Hoang Duc, Tam Ngo Thi, Linh Huynh Ngoc, Dat Ngo Minh, Thanh Nguyen Hoang Abstract Objective: Burnout among health sciences students has been increasingly recognized as an important psychological and educational challenge associated...
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The Evolutionary Psychopathology of Human Pair-Bonding

by Riadh Abed, Paul St John-Smith Abstract Evolutionary psychiatry views biological systems as evolved functional adaptations shaped by selection to promote survival and reproductive success (Darwinian fitness). However, even functional systems can malfunction...
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How Evolutionary Psychiatry Can Help Us Prevent Overmedicalisation

by Annie Swanepoel, Henry O’Connell, and Paul St John Smith Abstract Overmedicalisation in the treatment of mental health problems occurs when normal emotional responses are inappropriately framed as disorders requiring primarily pharmacological intervention,...
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Unconscious and Intersubjective Dynamics of Suicide. Over a Century of Psychoanalytic Perspectives

by Raffaele De Luca Picione, Elvira Martini, Chiara Fioretti, Vittorio Lenzo, Alessandro Musetti, Alessandro Germani Abstract Suicide represents a complex clinical phenomenon that cannot be adequately understood through categorical diagnoses or risk-factor...
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“Clinical Psychopharmacotherapy is a comprehensive look at the entire spectrum of mental disorders and their treatments featuring a tour de force of Italian experts, scientists and clinicians.  It is up to date, and should serve as a most useful reference now that it is available in English.  Congratulations to the contributors and editor”.

Stephen M. Stahl
University of California, San Diego

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led the government to extend and reinforce their recommendations for influenza vaccination, and several Italian Regions have made it obligatory for elderly people and healthworkers. Right now, however, the most reliable studies in the elderly have shown it is useful only in people with active heart disease. For people without heart problems there is no strong evidence in its favor. The same seems true for indiscriminate vaccination of pregnant women and children. For health workers too there is no proof of net benefit, and anyway the obligation does not seem compatible with current practice.

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ReAttach is focusing on the similarity in cognitive processing of information, emotions and events. The underlying structure of ReAttach is based on ortho-paedagogical influencing, obstructing factors and facilitating optimal conditions for cognitive functioning and growth.

 

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by Francesco Colotta

This book wants to recapitulate the cellular and molecular mechanism underlying the adaptative and evolutionary nature of cancer and to discuss how we might take advantage from considering cancer an adaptative and evolutionary disease to design new strategies for cancer therapy and prevention.

 

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by Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Jean Addington, Stephan Ruhrmann, Joachim Klosterkötter

The Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument originates in the basic symptom concept first described by Gerd. Basic symptoms are subtle, subclinical self-experienced disturbances in drive, stress tolerance, affect, thinking, speech, perception and motor action, which are phenomenologically clearly distinct from psychotic symptoms.

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Investigating the Pleiotropic Role of KIF21B in Schizophrenia and Multiple Sclerosis: A Bioinformatics Analysis

by Ela Doruk Korkmaz, Elif Everest Objective: Genome-wide association studies have identified shared genetic risk loci between schizophrenia (SCZ) and multiple sclerosis (MS), suggesting overlapping biological mechanisms despite distinct clinical presentations....

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