Alessandro Carano

Cotard’s Syndrome: Clinical Case Presentation and Literature Review

Alessandro Carano, Domenico De Berardis, Marilde Cavuto, Carla Ortolani, Giampaolo Perna, Alessandro Valchera, Monica Mazza, Michele Fornaro, Felice Iasevoli, Giovanni Martinotti & Massimo Di Giannantonio · International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal · 2014

In 1880 French neurologist Jules Cotard described a condition characterized by delusion of negation (nihilistic delusion) in a melancholia context. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Cotard’s syndrome. The most prominent symptoms of Cotard’s Syndrome are depress...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/INDJ/2014/7215

Alexithymia and Breast Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review

Domenico De Berardis, Stefano Marini, Felice Iasevoli, Monica Mazza, Alessandro Valchera, Michele Fornaro, Giampaolo Perna, Laura Orsolini, Alessandro Carano, Gabriella Girinelli, Federica Vellante, Ilaria Matarazzo, Nicola Serroni, Marilde Cavuto, Giovanni Martinotti, Maurizio Brucchi & Massimo Di Giannantonio · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

The term alexithymia is a complex multidimensional construct that literally means “no words for mood”. There are two kind of alexithymia: primary and secondary or otherwise called trait and state alexithymia. There is still an unresolved debate about the nature of alexithymia as...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25934