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Lucia Maggioni

Lucia Maggioni

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Join date: Feb 5, 2026

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Lucia is a clinical psychologist and a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Verona, where she focuses on the biomarkers for the clinical evaluation and characterisation of major depressive disorder. Another area of her research interest is genetic and environmental risk factors of psychosis.

She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and a master’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Trento, where she was selected for the Excellence Program (Top 5%) and awarded a scholarship to conduct her thesis at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Alongside her research activity, she has gained clinical experience in several hospital settings, working in psychological assessment, psychological support, and group interventions with patients affected by mood disorders, psychosis, and medical conditions.

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Feb 18, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Are We Really Addressing the Patient’s Needs?

When treating patients, we often focus primarily on improving their clinical outcomes, and as such inadvertently overlook their broader care needs. These include their perceived problems across health, social, service, and daily functioning areas. Individuals with psychosis, a mental condition characterized by a distortion of reality, often experience poor overall functioning, meaning a difficulty in managing everyday activities, including self-care, social relationships, and work.

Feb 13, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Learning to Embrace Mistakes

When I was studying in high school, I came across a quote by Karl Popper, a philosopher and academic, that really caught my attention. He once said: “Avoiding mistakes is a narrow-minded ideal. If we don’t dare face those challenges that are so difficult as to make the error almost inevitable, knowledge will not be developed. It is from our more daring theories, including those that are wrong, that we learn the most. No one can avoid making mistakes, but the important thing is to learn from them

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