Antonella Gigantesco

TL;DR: Multivariate genetic modeling showed that genes influencing self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism are largely overlapping, and suggested that a sizeable amount of variance in the traits may be explained by environmental effects specific to each of them.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that parents of children with ASD carry a huge caregiving burden, and the findings may help inform the design of effective interventions aimed at reducing burden among the parents ofChildren with ASD.

TL;DR: The preliminary validation of a brief self-completed questionnaire which originates from the CIDI-SF has satisfactory reliability, and internal consistency, and might be efficient for using in community research and clinical practice.

TL;DR: The results suggest that inpatient care, especially for psychotic patients, needs to be improved and that special attention should be devoted to inform adequately and to engage in treatment both patients and their relatives.

TL;DR: This study corroborates the notion that genetic factors contribute substantially to individual differences in alexithymia, with unshared environmental factors also playing an important role, and suggests a genetic link between alexityymia and depression.