Francesco Benedetti

Francesco Benedetti, M.D., authored scientific publications since 1996 on peer-reviewed international journals (august 2012: cited 2755 times with h-index 31). During his career he combined his research activities with clinical work, mainly in the field of mood disorders, with university teaching appointments as a professor of psychiatry, and with coordination and leadership of research units.

His main research interests are within the field of translational and reverse-translational research in psychiatry, and include chronobiology and chronotherapeutics of mood disorders, psychiatric genetics and clock genes, and the study of brain imaging correlates of psychiatric diseases and therapeutics.

He coordinates the Clinical Research Group Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the Division of Neuroscience of the Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele in Milano, Italy, and personally directs the research unit of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology. The research activities of this group focus at the interface between neuroscience and behavioral disorders, with the aim of increasing scientific knowledge and developing effective diagnosis and treatment options. Areas of expertise encompass clinical psychobiology, in vivo brain imaging, genetics, pharmacology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and clinical research, to face the questions of modern clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology.

In the field of psychiatry the outstanding achievements have been matter for independent investigations by lay media: the evaluation of the total Impact Factor ranked the psychiatric branch of the group at the 1st place among all psychiatric research structures in Italy (our I.F. 225.7 vs 60.1 second place in 2004), and at the third place in western Europe in the field of mood disorders (2006, I.F. 417.0).