Cristina Colombo
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
226 Papers
1.9K Citations
Cristina Colombo is an academic researcher from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bipolar disorder & Mood disorders. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 211 publications. Previous affiliations of Cristina Colombo include University of Milan & Università telematica San Raffaele.
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Papers
Antidepressant response in the elderly.
Laura Mandelli,Alessandro Serretti,Raffaella Zanardi,David Rossini,Diana De Ronchi,Ilaria Tarricone,Cristina Colombo +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated a sample of 93 elderly depressed individuals and 186 younger patients and found that depression in old age is similar to depression in other ages, except for a slightly slower response to pharmacotherapy.
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Obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in normal pressure hydrocephalus: a case report.
TL;DR: This report describes a patient with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder and a nuclear magnetic resonance picture of a normal pressure hydrocephalus who showed marked improvement in his compulsions after neurosurgery.
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Effect of early stress on hippocampal gray matter is influenced by a functional polymorphism in EAAT2 in bipolar disorder.
Sara Poletti,Clara Locatelli,Daniele Radaelli,Cristina Lorenzi,Enrico Smeraldi,Cristina Colombo,Francesco Benedetti +6 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesize that after exposure to highest levels of ACE G/G homozygotes are more vulnerable to stress reporting the highest brain damage as a consequence of an excess of free glutamate.
Worsening of delusional depression after sleep deprivation: case reports
TL;DR: Five patients affected by a major depressive episode with psychotic features were treated with total sleep deprivation (TSD) without concurrent psychotropic medication, and observed a worsening in psychotic as well as in depressive symptoms after TSD.
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Perceived mood and skin body temperature rhythm in depression
Barbara Barbini,Francesco Benedetti,Cristina Colombo,Emanuela Guglielmo,Euridice Campori,Enrico Smeraldi +5 more
TL;DR: The inspection of the individual cosine fitting shows that patients with a high circadian rhythmicity in perceived severity of symptomatology tend to show low circadianythmicity in skin body temperature, whereas patients withA low VAS oscillation tend to display a higher diurnal variation inskin body temperature.
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