Emanuele Caroppo

Local Health Authority Roma 2 · Department of Mental Health

In a previous work, authors have proposed a medico-legal definition of femicide as the murder due to the failure to recognize the right of self-determination of women. The aim of this paper was to apply the proposed definition to a cohort of cases to characterise femicides and female homicides and assess whether femicides can be considered a distin...

Exploring a COVID‐19 Endemic Scenario In article 2200481, Agnieszka Truszkowska, Maurizio Porfiri and co‐workers discuss the implications of the concurrent spread of two COVID‐19 strains in the model town of New Rochelle, NY, building upon their previously published high‐resolution agent‐based model. Image by Anna Sawulska, Alain Boldini, and Mauri...

Psychosis is a multifactorial condition that typically involves delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thought, speech or behavior. The observation of an association between infectious epidemics and acute psychosis dates back to the last century. Recently, concerns have been expressed regarding COVID-19 and the risk for the development of new-...

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic stressed the necessity of a new resilience of the human population and health system. The "WeCare Generation" program is a new proposal of territorial intervention, with a new paradigm, on the diseases of the human body and mind. Background: In recent decades, the independent strands of investigation on brain...

In line with priorities set by the Italian Ministry of Health and international literature, the “Crisalide project” provides specific care pathways aimed at young adults (YA) with severe mental disorders (SMD). As described in Materials and Methods, it consists of three lines of activity: transition to adult mental health services (TSMREE/CSM 17–19...

Suicide is a leading cause of death all over the world. Suicide prevention is possible and should be pursued through a variety of strategies. The importance of the arts for positive health outcomes has been increasingly evidenced. This scoping review aimed to identify the possible role of the performing arts—defined as a type of art performed throu...

Our efforts as a society to combat the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic are continuously challenged by the emergence of new variants. These variants can be more infectious than existing strains and many of them are also more resistant to available vaccines. The appearance of these new variants cause new surges of infections, exacerbated by infrastructural...

Objective: Migration is a phenomenon related to adverse impacts, including higher risk for psychological distress and trauma symptoms, highlighting the strong need for effective psychological treatments to help migrants. However, the use of expressive writing intervention (EW) has not been examined in this population. The aims of the study were to...

The emergency generated by the current COVID-19 pandemic has claimed millions of lives worldwide. There have been multiple waves across the globe that emerged as a result of new variants, due to arising from unavoidable mutations. The existing network toolbox to study epidemic spreading cannot be readily adapted to the study of multiple, coexisting...

(1) Background: During the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, cannabis use increased relative to pre-pandemic levels, while forced home confinement frequently caused sleep/wake cycle disruptions, psychological distress, and maladaptive coping strategies with the consequent appearance of anxiety symptoms and their potential impact on substance use prob...

Predicting the Effects of Waning Vaccine Immunity Against COVID-19 through High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling Mathematical models have proven to be indispensable in our fight against COVID-19. In article 2100521, Agnieszka Truszkowska, Maurizio Porfiri, and co-workers expand on a high-resolution agent-based model published previously in this jour...

Many women in detention are mothers and often the sole caregivers of their children. Italy, as most European countries, allows mothers to keep their children with them in detention, with the aim of preserving the fundamental bond between mother and child. Since prison does not seem to provide a good environment for the child's growth, there are dif...

The potential waning of the vaccination immunity to COVID‐19 could pose threats to public health, as it is tenable that the timing of such waning would synchronize with the near‐complete restoration of normalcy. Should also testing be relaxed, a resurgent COVID‐19 wave in winter 2021/2022 might be witnessed. In response to this risk, an additional...

Early detection and prompt treatment of psychosis is of the utmost importance. The great variability in clinical onset, illness course, and response to pharmacological and psychosocial treatment is in great part gender-related. Our aim has been to review narratively the literature focusing on gender related differences in the psychoses, i.e., schiz...

The COVID-19 pandemic is yet again on the verge of escalating, despite a hopeful case decrease recorded during spring and summer 2021, due to successful vaccination roll-outs. Together with the emergence of new variants, the potential waning of the vaccination immunity could pose threats to public health. It is tenable that the timing of such a gra...

High-Resolution COVID-19 Agent-Based Modeling As COVID-19 vaccine is being rolled-out, theory and simulation tools could assist public health authorities in reopening the economy. In article number 2100157, Agnieszka Truszkowska, Maurizio Porfiri, and co-workers examine the role of the vaccination rate on the spreading of COVID-19 in a high-resolut...

Social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected lifestyles: from sedentary behaviors to reduced physical activity, from disrupted sleep patterns to altered dietary habits. As a consequence, serious mental and emotional responses have been registered. There was a significant decline in physical and other meaningful activiti...

As COVID‐19 vaccine is being rolled out in the US, public health authorities are gradually reopening the economy. To date, there is no consensus on a common approach among local authorities. Here, a high‐resolution agent‐based model is proposed to examine the interplay between the increased immunity afforded by the vaccine roll‐out and the transmis...

Interpersonal violence in the perinatal period is frequent and should be considered a prominent health issue due to the risk of escalation of violence and the significant impact on mothers’ parenting after childbirth. Domestic violence during pregnancy can be associated with fatal and non-fatal adverse health outcomes due to the direct trauma to a...

Background There is concern about the increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 severe outcomes and disparity of care among patients with a psychiatric disorder (PD). Based on the Italian COVID-19 death surveillance, which collects data from all the hospitals throughout the country, we aimed to describe clinical features and care pathway of...

Since 2020, COVID‐19 has wreaked havoc across the planet, taking the lives of more than one million people. The uncertainty and novelty of the current conditions call for the development of theory and simulation tools that can support effective policy‐making. In article number 2000277, Agnieszka Truszkowska, Maurizio Porfiri, and co‐workers report...

Amid the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic, public health authorities and the general population are striving to achieve a balance between safety and normalcy. Ever changing conditions call for the development of theory and simulation tools to finely describe multiple strata of society while supporting the evaluation of “what‐if” scenarios. Particularly im...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities and the general population are striving to achieve a balance between safety and normalcy. Ever changing conditions call for the development of theory and simulation tools to finely describe multiple strata of society while supporting the evaluation of "what-if" scenarios. Particularly im...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spiked stress-related symptoms worldwide. This study aims to assess depressive symptoms related to the early phase of the COVID-19 outbreak among the Italian general population and to analyze anhedonia and emotion dysregulation as potential predictors of depression severity. Through an online questionnaire, we collected so...

With the exception of a few countries that chose a different approach, the worldwide reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic was a (longer or shorter) period of national lockdown. While the economic consequences of shutting down national economies were immediately evident, the sociopsychiatric implications of the social confinement of the entire populati...

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Background.: Literature shows that migrants-a generic definition for persons who leave their own country of origin-have increased psychopathological vulnerability. Between 2014 and 2017, 976 963 non-European Union (non-EU) people arrived in Italy, of which 30% for humanitarian reasons. This study is aimed at a better understanding of the experienc...

The massive forced migration is a phenomenon that has raised socio-economic questions in the last years respect to the problems of the flowes containment and social and employment integration of the emigrants in the countries destination. The causes of the forced migration are originated from the poverty, war conflicts, tortures, persecutions diffe...

OBJECTIVE The 'PROGRES' (PROGetto RESidenze' Residential Project) project has 3 aims: 1. To survey all Italian psychiatric Non-Hospital Residential Facilities (NHRF) (Phase 1); 2. To assess in detail 20% of the NHRFs and the patients living there (Phase 2); and 3. To carry on training programmes for the mental health workers of these facilities (Ph...