Did you know that our Institution is firmly committed to research development and scientific advancement to improve the quality of care, especially in the field of mental health?
Learn how this activity is practised in the Province of Italy.
My name is Giampaolo Perna. I am the director of the Clinical Neuroscience Department at the “Villa San Benedetto Menni” Sisters Hospitallers centre in Albese (Italy). The department consists of seven professionals dedicated to scientific research in psychiatry. Since 2009, we have worked—following the legacy of our Founder—to develop and implement approaches to therapy and rehabilitation based on sound science and evidence.
Scientific research plays a fundamental role in the achievement of mental and physical wellbeing, since it allows us to propose a personalised approach in response to the needs of each person and provide truly excellent levels of care.
The whole team, coordinated by Dr. Daniela Caldirola, strives daily to expand our scientific knowledge in the field of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience in an effort to develop new diagnostic strategies and more effective therapeutic options. We base our activity on compliance with the legality and sovereignty of the individual. We provide special care in cases associated with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Personalised psychiatry
The paradigm of personalised psychiatry helps mental health professionals make clinical decisions based on the individual profile of the patient, taking into account their needs and preferences, in all phases of care: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The development of this approach emerged from an increase in clinical observation and the data derived from the research, which emphasised the wide variability of responses to the application of treatments, proven in scientific studies, among patients with the same pathologies.
