CARRA' GIUSEPPE

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Psychiatry (MEDS-11/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
PSYCHIATRY (06/MEDS-11)
Email
[email protected]
Reception hours

Previo appuntamento per email a [email protected] 

Biography

Giuseppe Carrà is a Professor of Psychiatry at University of Milan Bicocca,  where he is also the Dean of the School of Medicine  and Surgery. Giuseppe  has been a Research Associate at the Division of Psychiatry, University College of London, where he has worked for over 20 years with his mentors Paul Bebbington and Sonia Johnson.

Giuseppe extensively researched in the mental health field in the last 30 years, with particular focus on Clinical, Biological and Digital phenotypes of severe mental disorders across several methods and projects.

 Author of over 250 papers in scientific, peer-reviewed journals, Giuseppe co-edited the first (2015) and the second (2020) edition of the  “Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives”, Springer-Nature Publisher. 

Clinically he works as the Medical Director of a Mental Health Department in Monza (I).

Publications

  • Bartoli, F., Cavaleri, D., Callovini, T., Palpella, D., Piacenti, S., Crocamo, C., et al. (2025). Clinical and metabolic correlates of DSM-5 mixed features in subjects with bipolar depression and mania: A cross-sectional study. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH, 188(January 2025) [10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111990]. Detail

  • Primavera, D., Fornaro, M., Carra, G., Romano, F., Gonzales, C., Preti, A., et al. (2024). Mood Disorder Questionnaire Positivity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Other Chronic Diseases including Screen Bipolar Disorders or Rhythm and Energy Dysregulation Syndromes (DYMERS). CLINICAL PRACTICE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY IN MENTAL HEALTH, 20(1) [10.2174/0117450179303653240705051227]. Detail

  • Bartoli, F., Cavaleri, D., Riboldi, I., Crocamo, C., de Filippis, R., Callegher, R., et al. (2024). The Resistant Depression Response to Esketamine Assessing Metabolomics (ReDREAM) Project- Untargeted Metabolomics to Identify Biomarkers of Treatment Response to Intranasal Esketamine in Individuals with Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Study Protocol. ALPHA PSYCHIATRY, 25(4), 555-560 [10.5152/alphapsychiatry.2024.241549]. Detail

  • Riboldi, I., Calabrese, A., Piacenti, S., Capogrosso, C., Paioni, S., Bartoli, F., et al. (2024). Understanding University Students' Perspectives towards Digital Tools for Mental Health Support: A Cross-country Study. CLINICAL PRACTICE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY IN MENTAL HEALTH, 20(1) [10.2174/0117450179271467231231060255]. Detail

  • Cavaleri, D., Crocamo, C., Morello, P., Bartoli, F., Carra, G. (2024). The Kynurenine Pathway in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Blood Concentrations of Tryptophan and Its Catabolites. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, 13(2) [10.3390/jcm13020583]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

Impatto della pandemia attraverso la prospettiva dei Servizi di Salute Mentale e delle Dipendenze nel contesto della Regione Lombardia
Year: 2021
Call: FAQC 2021 - seconda finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA
ERICA - Stopping Child Maltreament through Pan-European Multiprofessional Training Programme: Early Child Protection Work with Families at Risk
Year: 2019
Call: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
CARRA'-Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca
Year: 2017
Call: FFABR 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA - UFFICIO I - Bilancio e Contabilita'. Coordinamento staff della Direzione
DURESS project - Drug Use Recovery, Environment and Social Subjectivity
Year: 2017
Call: ERANID 2°call
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EU-VIORMED - European Study on Risk factors for Violence in Mental Disorder and Forensic Care: a multicentre project
Year: 2017
Call: 2016-064 - PP-2-2016
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Awards

Awards

  • Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca (FFABR), MIUR, 2017
  • The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) 2017 scientific award, The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 2017
  • Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Academic-Year Scholarship, Rotary Foundation, 2003
  • Castelli-Schubert Award from University of Milan for Family psychoeducational interventions in Schizophrenia, University of Milan, 1991

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - International Society Addiction Medicine, 2022
  • Fellow - International Society of Addiction Medicine, 2016

Editorial boards

  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - , 2021
  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - , 2012 - 2015

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore all estero - Research Fellow
    Dept. Mental Health Sciences. UCL - Charles Bell House. 67-73 Riding House St. London. W1W 7EJ - University College London, 2004 - 2016
  • Ricercatore all estero - Research Associate. Division of Psychiatry - University College London, 2016 - 2024
  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2016 - 2019

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - The International Society of Addiction Medicine's (ISAM) 12th Annual Conference. Bridging the gap between science and practice in the addiction field, 2010

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