BENEDETTI FRANCESCO

Certifications:
Medical licensure (1991, Univ. Modena);
Psychiatry (Univ. Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano);
Clin. Psychology (Univ. Milano);
National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor of Psychiatry.

Current appointments:
(1) Associate Professor of Psychiatry – University Vita Salute San Raffaele.
(2) Group Leader – Research unit Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology at the Division of Neuroscience – Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano.

Main research interests:
Translational research in psychiatry: brain imaging, immunopsychiatry, psychiatric genetics, chronotherapeutics


Sketch:
Francesco Benedetti is leading the research unit Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology at the Division of Neuroscience of the Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano. He always combined his research activities in the broad field of psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, with everyday clinical work in the hospital and with university teaching appointments.
His main research interests are within the field of translational and reverse-translational research in psychiatry, and include brain imaging and neural correlates of psychiatric diseases and therapeutics; psychiatric genetics, with a particular emphasis on clock genes; neuroinflammation; and chronobiology and chronotherapeutics of mood disorders, developing new treatment techniques based on the administration of environmental stimuli to synchronize the biological clock.