About my research
Alessandra Costanza is a Senior Researcher (PrivatDozent, PD) at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Senior Lecturer at the University of Italian Switzerland. She also serves as Chef-de-clinique at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG). She studied at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel and University of Houston, Texas, USA. She received an MD at the University of Torino in 1999, a Postgraduate Diploma in Neurology at the University of Torino, a Master's degree in Psycho-Pharmachology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milano in 2006, and later a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Geneva (Switzerland). Her achieved the Italian Scientific Habilitation (as Associate Professor) in 2022. She has authored and co-authored over 80 indexed scientific publications and textbook chapters. Very interested in the correlations between neurology and psychiatry, as well as those between psychiatry and existential issues, she collaborates with numerous Italian and international universities. Her main field of research concerns suicidology.
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- ArticleReactive Astrocytosis—A Potential Contributor to Increased Suicide in Long COVID-19 Patients?
- ArticleImmunomodulatory Effects of Clozapine: More Than Just a Side Effect in Schizophrenia
- ArticleEffectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: From an integrative review to a northern Italian province’s paradigm
- ArticleGlobal trends in youth suicide from 1990 to 2020: an analysis of data from the WHO mortality database
- ArticleObsessive–Compulsive Disorder as an Epiphenomenon of Comorbid Bipolar Disorder? An Updated Systematic Review
- ArticleA Prospective Multicenter Longitudinal Analysis of Suicidal Ideation among Long-COVID-19 Patients
- ArticleThe Role of Emotion Dysregulation in Understanding Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- ArticleEvening Chronotype and Suicide: Exploring Neuroinflammation and Psychopathological Dimensions as Possible Bridging Factors—A Narrative Review
- ArticleEvening-Chronotype and Suicide: Exploring Neuroinflammation and Psychopathological Dimensions as Possible Bridging Factors. A Narrative Review.
- ArticleEffects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cocaine addiction: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
- ArticleMechanical Restraint in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit: Prevalence and Associated Clinical Variables
- ArticleChronotype and Cardiometabolic Parameters in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Findings
- ArticleEffectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: A scoping review and lessons from a northern Italian province (Preprint)
- ArticleDemoralization and Suicidal Ideation in Chronic Pain Patients
- ArticleCOVID-19 Impact on the Italian Community-based System of Mental Health Care: Reflections and Lessons Learned for the Future
- ArticleSociodemographic and Clinical Correlates Associated with the Frequent Service Users in an Italian Psychiatric Emergency Department
- ArticleWhen to discharge and when to voluntary or compulsory hospitalize? Factors associated with treatment decision after self-harm
- ArticleC-Reactive Protein as a Potential Peripheral Biomarker for High-Lethality Suicide Attempts
- ArticlePossible Contribution of Meaning in Life in Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Observational Study
- ArticleEffect of Housing Quality on the Mental Health of University Students during the COVID-19 Lockdown
- ArticleCOVID-19 Related Fears of Patients Admitted to a Psychiatric Emergency Department during and Post-Lockdown in Switzerland: Preliminary Findings to Look Ahead for Tailored Preventive Mental Health Strategies
- Article“Hard to Say, Hard to Understand, Hard to Live”: Possible Associations between Neurologic Language Impairments and Suicide Risk
- ArticlePossible Contribution of Meaning in Life in Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Observational Study (Preprint)
- ArticleChloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine Use and Suicide Risk: Hypotheses for Confluent Etiopathogenetic Mechanisms?
- ArticleEfficacy and Safety of Lurasidone in Children and Adolescents: Recommendations for Clinical Management and Future Research
- ArticleAntibiomania: a case report of clarithromycin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid induced manic episodes separately
- ArticleHopelessness and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Any Role for Mediating Variables?
- ArticleMeaning in Life Among Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Mixed Methods Study
- ArticleMeaning in Life Among Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)
- ArticleImpact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Admissions to a Large Swiss Emergency Department: An Observational Study
- ArticleSevere Suicidality in Athletes with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Case Series and Overview on Putative Ethiopathogenetic Mechanisms
- ArticleSuicidality in Patients with Brain Tumors: A Brief Literature Review with Clinical Exemplar
- ArticleUrgent hyperbaric oxygen therapy for suicidal carbon monoxide poisoning: from a preliminary survey to a proposal for an integrated somatic-psychiatric protocol
- ArticleThe Role of Demoralization and Meaning in Life (DEMIL) in Influencing Suicidal Ideation Among Patients Affected by Chronic Pain: Protocol of a Single-Center, Observational, Case-Control Study
- ArticleMatters on suicide and neurological diseases
- ArticleThe Role of Demoralization and Meaning in Life (DEMIL) in Influencing Suicidal Ideation Among Patients Affected by Chronic Pain: Protocol of a Single-Center, Observational, Case-Control Study (Preprint)
- Article<p>Meaning in Life and Demoralization Constructs in Light of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: A Trans-Theoretical Hypothesis for a Cross-Sectional Study</p>
- ArticleCOVID-19 Lockdown: Housing Built Environment’s Effects on Mental Health
- ArticleOral mucositis induced by risperidone: rare side effect of a frequently prescribed medication
- ArticleMental health and cystic fibrosis: Time to move from secondary prevention to predictive medicine
- ArticleWho Consult an Adult Psychiatric Emergency Department? Pertinence of Admissions and Opportunities for Telepsychiatry
- ArticleDemoralization and Its Relationship with Depression and Hopelessness in Suicidal Patients Attending an Emergency Department
- ArticleImpulsivity and Impulsivity-Related Endophenotypes in Suicidal Patients with Substance Use Disorders: an Exploratory Study
- ArticlePutting Codman's lesson to work: measuring and improving the quality of Italian mental health care
- ArticleThe Meaning in Life in Suicidal Patients: The Presence and the Search for Constructs. A Systematic Review
- ArticleThe implementation and first insights of the French-speaking Swiss programme for monitoring self-harm
- ArticleThe dimensionality of suicidal ideation and its clinical implications
- ArticleThe Function of Personality in Suicidal Ideation from the Perspective of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
- ArticleThe application of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide to a sample of Swiss patients attending a psychiatric emergency department for a non-lethal suicidal event
- ArticleNeurobiology of suicide: do biomarkers exist?
- ArticleMicrovascular Burden and Alzheimer-Type Lesions Across the Age Spectrum
- ArticleReview: Contact sport-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the elderly: clinical expression and structural substrates
- ArticleRadiotherapy and chemotherapy of brain metastases
- ArticleSecond-line treatment with carboplatin for recurrent or progressive oligodendroglial tumors after PCV (procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine) chemotherapy