Donatella Marazziti

Donatella Marazziti is a psychiatrist, a physician at Pisa University Hospital, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UniCamillus University in Rome and Head of Research at the Brain Research Foundation. She graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Pisa in 1981, specialising in psychiatry in 1985 and clinical biochemistry in 1990. She has qualified for appointment as a Full Professor of Psychiatry.

She is Field Editor of CNS Spectrums, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Associate Editor of BMJ Psychiatry, and serves on numerous scientific editorial boards. Her research focuses on biological markers in psychiatry, emotions, psychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry.

Internationally recognised for first demonstrating a neurobiological change associated with falling in love, she has contributed to understanding the biological foundations of romantic attraction and emotional attachment. Her findings have attracted extensive international media coverage. Her more recent research explores behavioural addictions, radiation-related brain injury and the psychological effects of war and terrorist attacks.

She has held research fellowships and visiting professorships in Norway and the United States and received national and international awards. She has published more than 600 scientific papers, including 308 indexed in PubMed, with an H-index of 48. Her publications also include numerous book chapters, nine books, two essays translated into several languages and a novel.