Giorgio Consoli

TL;DR: Depressed patients also show impairments of executive functions and their recent exploration through brain imaging techniques has recently permitted to formulate some general hypotheses on the possible involvement of different brain areas in MD.

TL;DR: Untreated depressed patients showed reduced baseline serum and plasma BDNF levels, as compared with control subjects, which would suggest that serum BDNF might represent a non-specific trait marker of depression.

TL;DR: The molecular inflammatory and neurodegenerative pathways might provide new targets for antidepressant development and might be crucial to establish a rational treatment of depression aimed, hopefully, to its causal factors.

TL;DR: Investigating thyroid abnormalities and autoimmunity in 120 patients affected by fibromyalgia found autoimmune thyroiditis is present in an elevated percentage of FM patients, and it has been associated with the presence of typical symptoms of the disease.

TL;DR: The findings showed that patients affected by PG, in spite of normal intellectual, linguistic and visual-spatial abilities, had abnormalities emerging from the WCST, in particular they could not learn from their mistakes and look for alternative solutions.