Research: Sleep, neuropsychological and psychopathological profiles in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders during developmental age
Education and Training:
11/2023 - Winner of the Doctorate Scholarship in "Psychology and Cognitive Science" (XXXIX cycle) at Sapienza University of Rome.
10/2023 - Specialization in Child Neuropsychiatry (70 with honors/70), Sapienza University of Rome, UOC Child Neuropsychiatry, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome.
Resident Years: 2019-2023
Thesis: "Psychotic risk assessment in a sample of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: comparison with a group of patients at clinical high risk (CHR). Advisor: Carla Sogos. Co-advisor: Elena Monducci.
03/2018 - Registration to the Ordine dei Medici della Provincia di L’Aquila (O.M. AQ) with no. 3973
02/2018 - Officially qualified to practice as a doctor, Sapienza University of Rome.
07/2017 - Master’s degree in Medicine and Surgery (110 with honors/110), Sapienza University of Rome.
Degree course years: 2011-2017
Thesis in Medicine and Surgery held at the UOC Child Neuropsychiatry of Policlinico Umberto I: "Clinical and pathophysiopathology of tremor in phenylketonuria".
Advisor: Vincenzo Leuzzi. Co-advisor: Filippo Manti.
Activities extra-training network:
05/2023 - Internship at Policlinico Tor Vergata, Autism Group (prof. Luigi Mazzone - dott.ssa Assia Riccioni): outpatient activity with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and psychiatric comorbidities; psychotropic drugs clinic.
Courses and seminars as teacher/speaker:
17-18/11/2022 - ECM Course (368169), 1st Ed.: "The work of multidisciplinary teams in a therapeutic day hospital for neurodevelopmental disorders"
Intervention entitled: "Neurodevelopmental disorders and psychopathological risk - challenges and limitations of the diagnostic classification of psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders".
Coordinators: Simonetta Ramacciani, Carla Sogos
22/03/2022 - Presentation of the book by Michele Poletti: "Before schizophrenia. Developmental schizophrenic vulnerability: experiences, phenotypes, trajectories."
Intervention entitled: "Schizotypy and self-disorders"
Research Projects/ Clinical Studies:
2016-2023 - "Purpose trial - placebo controlled trial in subjects at ultra-high risk of psychosis with omega-3 fatty acids in Europe - eudract 2015-003503-39", as investigator from August 2022 until January 2023
2022-in progress - Start to Research: "Cognitive, linguistic and behavioral development of Italian preterm children at 2 years of age: influence of the style of attachment, mentalization and maternal coping and analysis of cortical networks involved", as a co-proponent.
Proposer: Chiara Di Maggio. Coordinators: Prof. Galati, Prof.ssa Caravale, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.
2023-in progress - Departmental Project, approved by CET Lazio in October 2023, entitled: "Psychotic risk assessment in a group of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: comparison with a group of CHR patients".
P.I.: Carla Sogos. Coordinator: Elena Monducci.
2021-in progress - Littlespoon Project - The effects of self-weaning on psychomotor development in the first 2 years of life: a study on children born preterm.
P.I.: Barbara Caravale, Francesca Bellagamba, Elsa Addessi. Researchers: Cristina Zitarelli, Valeria Mammarella, Daniela Miraglia, Daniela Regoli, Lucia Dito.
Approved in September 2021 by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome.
Courses as a learner:
05/2023 - Course "Garden therapy - benefits, applications and guidelines of therapeutic gardening". Igea Formazione.
05/2023 - 1st edition of "Incontri di psichiatria dell’età evolutiva 2023". Laborest.
Scientific coordinators: Luigi Mazzone, Stefano Vicari.
Duration of training: 30 hours.
10-11/2022 - "Corso di psicofarmacoterapia dello sviluppo 2022". Society of clinical and experimental psychiatry of the school of Pisa. IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation.
Coordinator: Gabriele Masi.
Duration of training: 37 hours.
Training objective: clinical documentation. Diagnostic and rehabilitative clinical-care pathways, care profiles - treatment profiles
ECM no.: 353166
08/2022 - K-SADS training for the Purpose Trial: Course for the administration of the K-SADS diagnostic interview as part of the Dutch project "Purpose" (Placebo-controlled trial in subjects at ultra-high risk for psychosis with omega-3 Fatty acids in europe - eudract 2015-003503-39)
08/2022 - CAARMS training for the Purpose Trial: Course for the administration of the CAARMS Diagnostic interview within the Dutch Project "Purpose" (Placebo controlled study in subjects at very high risk of omega-3 fatty acid psychosis in Europe - eudract 2015-003503-39)
08/2022 - PANSS training for the Purpose Trial: Course for the administration of the interview PANSS Diagnostics within the Dutch Project "Purpose" (Placebo controlled study in subjects at very high risk of psychosis with omega-3 fatty acids in Europe - eudract 2015-003503-39)
05/2022 - Training course for the administration of the ADOS2 instrument. Hogrefe.
Teacher: Raffaella Faggioli. Scientific manager: Carla Sogos.
Duration: 25 hours.
03-05/2022 - Training course for the administration of the EASE interview (Examination of anomalous self-experience) - remotely
Coordinators and teachers: Eva Gebhardt, Andrea Raballo.
Duration: 12 hours.
09/2021-02/2022 - Course for the evaluation of mental states at risk with the Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument (SPI-A, SPI-CY) - remotely
Coordinators and teachers: Eva Gebhardt, Andrea Raballo
Duration: 12 hours
Posters, oral presentations, symposia:
2023:
- "Motor symptoms or abnormalities of body experience? The importance of differential diagnosis at the dawn of psychotic onset". A. Beatrice, A. Maffucci, Valeria Mammarella, M. Ferrara, V. Baglioni, E. Monducci.
Poster for the SINPIA Residents Days, Bari 2023.
- "Psychotic risk assessment through the 16-item version of the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16) in a sample of adolescents evaluated at Day Hospital". Valeria Mammarella, A. Maffucci, A. Beatrice, M. Ferrara, A. Raballo, E. Monducci.
Oral presentation in the AIPP annual congress, Bari 2023.
- "The suffering behind the mask: the camouflage in the female autism spectrum in two clinical cases with psychiatric presentation". Valeria Mammarella.
Oral Presentation. Course "Incontri di psichiatria dell'età evolutiva - I ed.", Riccione 2023. Laborest. Scientific coordinators: Luigi Mazzone, Stefano Vicari.
- "Assessment of basic symptoms and psychotic risk in a sample of children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years of age with autism spectrum disorder: comparison with a sample of high risk clinical studies without diagnosis of autism". Valeria Mammarella, A. Maffucci, L. Terenzi, E. Monducci, C. Sogos.
Video-poster Giornate PCS Il Mulino, Bologna 2023
- "Imaginary friend: evolutionary support or precursor of a psychopathological drift? Comparison between clinical experience on a patient with psychotic adolescent onset and literature data". Valeria Mammarella, A. Maffucci, L. Terenzi, M. Ferrara, M. Casini, A. Raballo, E. Monducci.
Poster at the SOPSI annual meeting, Rome 2023.
2022:
- "Psychopathological risk in sensory disabilities: a case of feeding and mood disorder in an adolescent with congenital deafness". B. Altomonte, Valeria Mammarella.
Poster at the SINPIA Residents Days, Brescia 2022.
- "Assessment of psychotic risk in a case of functional neurological disorder and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: dissociation as a bridge between conversion and psychosis". Valeria Mammarella, E. Monducci, S. Cesario, V. Baglioni.
Poster at the SINPIA Residents Days, Brescia 2022.
- "In the hands of the imaginary friend. A case of schizophreniform disorder: complexity and diagnostic challenges". A. Maffucci, L. Terenzi, Valeria Mammarella, M. Casini, M. Ferrara, E. Monducci.
Oral presentation at the SINPIA Residents Days, Brescia 2022.
- "Suicide risk in adolescents at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis". E. Monducci, A. Terrinoni, M. Colaiori, Valeria Mammarella, A. Maffucci, L. Cammisa, S. Cesario, G. Colafrancesco, C. Battaglia, M. Ferrara, A. Raballo.
Individual oral presentation in a composite symposium (ESCAP Commission 2022).
- "Correlation between psychotic risk and depressive “cognitive” symptoms in adolescence". A. Maffucci, S. Cesario, Valeria Mammarella, G. Colafrancesco, M. Ferrara, A. Raballo, E. Monducci.
E-poster at the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry, Budapest 2022.
- "Correlation between psychotic risk and depressive symptoms in adolescence: preliminary data".
Valeria Mammarella, A. Maffucci, S. Cesario, E. Monducci.
Poster at the conference "Dalle neuroscienze ai trattamenti psicologici basati sull'evidenza", Rome 2021.
Language:
Italian mother-tongue
English level B2 plus