Massimo Tusconi

Biographic Data

ID7651704
NAMEMassimo Tusconi
GIVEN NAMESMassimo
FAMILY NAMETusconi
SIGNATURETUSCONI M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cagliari
ORCID0000-0002-9155-4740
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Perceptions of care quality and human rights in Italian outpatient facilities during and after the pandemic

    Open AccessElisa Cantone, Goce Kalcev et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background This study investigated whether job satisfaction and perceptions of respect for human rights among healthcare workers and patients improved in the post-COVID period compared to during the pandemic in 2021. Methods Conducted in October 2025 across five outpatient hospital units in Sardinia, Italy, this cross-sectional survey involved 97 healthcare professionals and 129 patients recruited voluntarily based on service requirements attenda…

  • The perception of quality of care and respect of human rights in mental healthcare facilities among users during and after the pandemic in Sardinia, Italy

    Open AccessElisa Cantone, Vanessa Barrui et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strongly challenged health systems, but Italian community mental health services, rooted in the Basaglia reform and the World Health Organization (WHO) QualityRights framework, may have preserved a high perception of care quality and respect for human rights. This study compared users’ perceptions of quality of care, human rights, and resource adequacy in public mental healthcare fac…

  • The role of hypothyroidism in the resilience against depressive episodes during covid pandemic in a cohort of old adults

    Open AccessAlessandra Perra, Massimo Tusconi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    Older adults generally displayed resilience during the pandemic. However, those with Hypothyroidism experienced increased depressive episodes and worsened quality of life, suggesting reduced stress adaptability despite hormone replacement therapy. This consideration highlights the potential need for interventions addressing both biological and psychosocial factors in managing depression risk in hypothyroid individuals

  • Reframing involuntary treatment as a sentinel event

    Open AccessGiulia Cossu, Michela Atzeni et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    This approach may help align mental health services with CRPD principles, reduce involuntary treatment, and enhance accountability, legitimacy, and foster collaborative relationships between users and providers. It may also help overcome the current impasse around coercive practices by enabling the identification and analysis of the structural and cultural mechanisms that sustain them over time, thereby opening up new possibilities for their mana…

  • Enhancing wellness

    Open AccessElisa Cantone, Antonio Urban et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier CRD42024544687

  • Can adaptive hyperactivation result in a positive score on the Mood Disorder Questionnaire? Evidence from a case-control study over a community survey

    Open AccessMichela Atzeni, M Fornaro et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    MDQ positivity identifies a heterogeneous population, including individuals with adaptive hyperactivation and preserved functioning. These findings highlight the need for more refined instruments capable of distinguishing adaptive from pathological hyperactivation and caution against over-pathologizing MDQ positivity in clinical and public health settings

  • Bipolar disorder in an evolutionary framework

    Open AccessMassimo Tusconi, Serdar M Dursun et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    susceptibility, the combined polygenic signal of common variants accounts for 25% of the genetic variance in BD. Furthermore, 70% of this variance is shared with schizophrenia (33). From an evolutionary perspective, the highly polygenic architecture of bipolar disorder may also be interpreted as compatible with models of balancing selection acting on temperamental traits within the population. Rather than reflecting a single pathogenic pathway, t…

  • Resilience to depression and unchanged quality of life in Sardinian old adults during Covid-19 lockdown

    Open AccessGiulia Cossu, Michela Atzeni et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    NCT03858114

  • Bipolar spectrum, hypothyroidism, and their association with chronic fatigue/myalgic encephalomyelitis-like syndrome in long Covid

    Open AccessMassimo Tusconi, Serdar M Dursun et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    The findings suggest that hypothyroidism and bipolar spectrum disorders may act as predisposing factors in the development of CFS/ME in long-term COVID-19. Identifying these clinical antecedents could facilitate early detection and the development of targeted intervention strategies in at-risk populations

  • Promoting healthy aging through intergenerational exchange and digital empowerment

    Open AccessGiulia Cossu, Stefano Lorrai et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT06162871

  • Why N,N-dimethyltryptamine matters

    Open AccessCristiano Chaves, Rafael G Dos Santos et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Iracema comes with the pot full of the green liquor. The shaman decrees the dreams to each warrior and distributes the wine of jurema, which carries the brave Tabajara to heaven." José de Alencar, in his poetic novel “Iracema” (1865)1. IntroductionThe "wine of jurema", used in ancient Brazilian shamanic rituals, is rich in N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a naturally occurring tryptamine like serotonin and melatonin. Widely found in plants and anima…

  • Neuroinflammation and schizophrenia – is there a link

    Open AccessCristiano Chaves, Selçuk Dursun et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Keywords: inflammation, schizophrenia, biomarkers, psychiatric genetics, neurobiology, neuroinflammation, psychotic disorders