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L.S. Volonteri

Researcher at University of Milan

Publications -  21
Citations -  734

L.S. Volonteri is an academic researcher from University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tolerability & Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications receiving 687 citations.

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Clinical pharmacokinetics of atypical antipsychotics: a critical review of the relationship between plasma concentrations and clinical response.

TL;DR: This review of the literature concerning the relationships between plasma concentrations of SGAs and clinical responses is divided by dividing the studies on the basis of the length of their observation periods by indicating a relationship between clinical outcomes and plasma concentrations.
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Substance abuse in first-episode schizophrenic patients: a retrospective study

TL;DR: The findings seem to indicate that substance abuse in the early course of illness determines an earlier onset of schizophrenia and increases severity of some psychotic symptoms like "hallucination" and "unusual content of thought".
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Substance-Induced Psychoses: A Critical Review of the Literature

TL;DR: The findings of this review indicate that psychosis due to substance abuse is commonly observed in clinical practice and the propensity to develop psychosis seems to be a function of the severity of use and dependence.
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Predictors of clinical outcome in schizophrenic patients responding to clozapine.

TL;DR: The results seem to suggest the importance of pharmacodynamic, constitutional, and genetic data over strict pharmacokinetics in determining the clinical response to CLZ.
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Parasuicide and drug self-poisoning: analysis of the epidemiological and clinical variables of the patients admitted to the Poisoning Treatment Centre (CAV), Niguarda General Hospital, Milan

TL;DR: The demographic and clinical variables of a sample of subjects admitted to the Posisoning Treatment Centre (CAV), Niguarda General Hospital, Milan, following drug self-poisoning are described to identify the risk factors associated to parasuicidal gestures, with special care for the used drugs, the presence of psychiatric or organic disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction.