Piccinni Armando

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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum First name: Armando Family name:Piccinni Date of birth: May 25, 1955 Place of birth:Taranto, Italy Address: Fillungo, n. 170, Lucca Country: Italy Telephone: 050 992965 Fax: 050 992925 Mob Ph: 3493733967 E-mail: Current position: • Professor of Psychiatry Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences – Rome - Italy • • Member of the College of Discipline, Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences • Founder and President of the BRF Foundation (Brain Research Foundation Onlus) Institute for Scientific Research in Psychiatry and Neuroscience Degree and Specializations: • Degree in Medicine and Surgery, October 1980; • Specialization in Neurology, October 1984; • Specialization in Psychiatry, November 1988; • Training Jungian analysis, 1984-1991. Employments: • 1980-1983: Italian Navy Medical Officer • 1984-1986: Assistant Neuropsychiatric Department, "G. Venticinque Hospital " Taranto • 1986-1993: Chief of Neuropsychiatric Department, "G.Venticinque Hospital "Taranto • 1994-1996: Medical Assistant; Territorial Health Unit of Psychiatry, Pisa • 1997-2018: Medical Director of Day-Hospital Unit at the Psychiatric departement “S.Chiara Hospital Pisa • 2018 - today: Professor of Psychiatry Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences • Since 2015 Founder and President of the BRF Foundation (Brain Research Foundation Onlus) Institute for Scientific Research in Psychiatry and Neuroscience armando.piccinni@gmail.com armando.piccinni@unicamillus.org armando.piccinni@med.unipi.it University qualifications: 1994-1996: Adjunct Professor at the University of Siena, School of Mental Health 2002-2009: Adjunct Professor at the University of Pisa, Degree in Rehabilitation Psychiatry 2005-2017: Adjunct Professor at the University of Pisa, School of Postgraduate Psychiatry, School of Clinical Psychiatry 2018 – now: Professor of Psychiatry Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences – Rome - Italy Scientific activities: - Organization and supervision of a naturalistic follow-up aspects anamnestic, clinical, course and treatment of bipolar disorder on a large sample of hospitalized patients. - Study of the incidence and clinical correlates of comorbid lifetime spectra mood, panic-agoraphobic and obsessive-compulsive disorder in bipolar disorder in hospitalized patients. - Follow-up naturalistic study in patients with RA. - Study on the incidence of mood disorders and anxiety disorders in a population of PD (in collaboration with of Departement of Clinical Neurology, University of Pisa). - Neuroplasticity, neurotrophic factors and affective disorder: serum BDNF in drug-free patients with unipolar or bipolar major depression and comorbid anxiety (in collaboration with the Department of Neuroscience of the National Research Council Area of Pisa). - Study to assess levels of neurotrophic factors in rats after duloxetine treatment (in collaboration with the Department of Neuroscience of the National Research Council Area of Pisa). - Neuroplasticity, neurodegeneration, mood disorders and Alzheimer’s disease clinical and neurobiologycal relationships. It carries out through the activity of the non-profit Foundation Brain Research, and in collaboration with the members of the scientific committee, an intense seminar activity directed to issues of popularization and current affairs scientific; between these: • In the head of ISIS: psychology and psychopathology of the terrorist phenomenon • Feminicide: the reason for violence against women • Clinical natural and evolutionary history of sleep • Behavioral addictions and food addiction: can you be food addicts? • Internet addiction and technological means: the story of a collective dependence • Sleep: The physiology, the evolutionary meaning, the disorders, the associated pathologies • Decision-making processes and their deviations Memberships: • S.I.P. (Italian Society of Psychiatry), • ECNP (European College of Neuropharmacology) • SOPSI (Italian Society of Psychopathology) • S.I.N.S. (Italian Society of Neuroscience), • APA (American Psychiatric Association)