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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- Microbial Dysbiosis as an Emerging Pathology of Suicidal Behaviour? A Critical Review, Passing Through Depression to Chronic Pain
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- Understanding Neuroinflammation in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: Biological Mechanisms, Diagnostic Biomarkers, and Therapeutic Prospects
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- Investigating the Relationship Between Hopelessness, Alexithymia, Mind Wandering, Rumination, and Clinical Features in Patients with Bipolar Disorder
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- Late-life suicide trends in selected major countries worldwide in 1990–2022: a spatio-temporal analysis from the WHO mortality database
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- Reactive Astrocytosis—A Potential Contributor to Increased Suicide in Long COVID-19 Patients?
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- Immunomodulatory Effects of Clozapine: More Than Just a Side Effect in Schizophrenia
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- Effectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: From an integrative review to a northern Italian province’s paradigm
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- Global trends in youth suicide from 1990 to 2020: an analysis of data from the WHO mortality database
- Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder as an Epiphenomenon of Comorbid Bipolar Disorder? An Updated Systematic Review
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- A Prospective Multicenter Longitudinal Analysis of Suicidal Ideation among Long-COVID-19 Patients
- The Role of Emotion Dysregulation in Understanding Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review of the Literature
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- Evening Chronotype and Suicide: Exploring Neuroinflammation and Psychopathological Dimensions as Possible Bridging Factors—A Narrative Review
- Evening-Chronotype and Suicide: Exploring Neuroinflammation and Psychopathological Dimensions as Possible Bridging Factors. A Narrative Review.
- Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cocaine addiction: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
- Mechanical Restraint in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit: Prevalence and Associated Clinical Variables
- Chronotype and Cardiometabolic Parameters in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Findings
- Effectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: A scoping review and lessons from a northern Italian province (Preprint)
- Demoralization and Suicidal Ideation in Chronic Pain Patients
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- COVID-19 Impact on the Italian Community-based System of Mental Health Care: Reflections and Lessons Learned for the Future
- Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates Associated with the Frequent Service Users in an Italian Psychiatric Emergency Department
- When to discharge and when to voluntary or compulsory hospitalize? Factors associated with treatment decision after self-harm
- C-Reactive Protein as a Potential Peripheral Biomarker for High-Lethality Suicide Attempts
- Possible Contribution of Meaning in Life in Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Observational Study
- Effect of Housing Quality on the Mental Health of University Students during the COVID-19 Lockdown
- COVID-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
- “Hard to Say, Hard to Understand, Hard to Live”: Possible Associations between Neurologic Language Impairments and Suicide Risk
- Possible Contribution of Meaning in Life in Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Observational Study (Preprint)
- Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine Use and Suicide Risk: Hypotheses for Confluent Etiopathogenetic Mechanisms?
- Efficacy and Safety of Lurasidone in Children and Adolescents: Recommendations for Clinical Management and Future Research
- Antibiomania: a case report of clarithromycin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid induced manic episodes separately
- Hopelessness and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Any Role for Mediating Variables?
- Meaning in Life Among Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Mixed Methods Study
- Meaning in Life Among Patients With Chronic Pain and Suicidal Ideation: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Admissions to a Large Swiss Emergency Department: An Observational Study
- Severe Suicidality in Athletes with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Case Series and Overview on Putative Ethiopathogenetic Mechanisms
- Suicidality in Patients with Brain Tumors: A Brief Literature Review with Clinical Exemplar
- Urgent hyperbaric oxygen therapy for suicidal carbon monoxide poisoning: from a preliminary survey to a proposal for an integrated somatic-psychiatric protocol
- The 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
- Matters on suicide and neurological diseases
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- The 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)
- <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>
- COVID-19 Lockdown: Housing Built Environment’s Effects on Mental Health
- Oral mucositis induced by risperidone: rare side effect of a frequently prescribed medication
- Mental health and cystic fibrosis: Time to move from secondary prevention to predictive medicine
- Who Consult an Adult Psychiatric Emergency Department? Pertinence of Admissions and Opportunities for Telepsychiatry
- Demoralization and Its Relationship with Depression and Hopelessness in Suicidal Patients Attending an Emergency Department
- Impulsivity and Impulsivity-Related Endophenotypes in Suicidal Patients with Substance Use Disorders: an Exploratory Study
- Putting Codman's lesson to work: measuring and improving the quality of Italian mental health care
- The Meaning in Life in Suicidal Patients: The Presence and the Search for Constructs. A Systematic Review
- The implementation and first insights of the French-speaking Swiss programme for monitoring self-harm
- The dimensionality of suicidal ideation and its clinical implications
- The Function of Personality in Suicidal Ideation from the Perspective of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
- The 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
- Neurobiology of suicide: do biomarkers exist?
- Microvascular Burden and Alzheimer-Type Lesions Across the Age Spectrum
- Review: Contact sport-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the elderly: clinical expression and structural substrates
- Radiotherapy and chemotherapy of brain metastases
- Second-line treatment with carboplatin for recurrent or progressive oligodendroglial tumors after PCV (procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine) chemotherapy