Andreoli, Vittorino

Born in Verona on April 19, 1940. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padova and defended his thesis in General Pathology under the supervision of Professor Massimo Aloisi. He continued his experimental studies at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Milan, fully devoting himself to brain research and, in particular, the relationship between neurobiology and animal and human behavior. Then he worked in England at Cambridge University, then in the United States: first at Cornell College of Medicine in New York, and then at Harvard University with Professor Seymour Keti, director of psychiatric laboratories and the department of biological psychiatry. During this period, he is an assistant at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Milan, where he is engaged in research on neuropsychopharmacology.

Man's behavior and his insanity will soon become the center of his interests, and this determines a turning point in his commitment to neurology and subsequent psychiatry, the disciplines of which he becomes a specialist. He works at Harvard University with Professor S.S. Keti with a psychiatric approach that seems to combine experimental and clinical biological interests.

Vittorino Andreoli is an atheist, but prefers to call himself "unbeliever" [1]. During a broadcast on August 20, 2015, Sottovotse stated that instead of believing in a “god,” like Einstein, he calls himself a deist and rejects the idea of ​​“chance”. “At the origins of the universe.

He was director of the Department of Psychiatry of Verona - Soave. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences [2]. He is president of the section of the psychopathology committee of the World Psychiatric Association.

He strongly opposes the Lombrian concept of crime, according to which the crime is necessarily committed by the mentally ill, and maintains the compatibility of normality with the most heinous murders. Between 1962 and 1984, he formulated and, in some respects, the importance of encephal plasticity as a “place” for mental pathology and, therefore, argues that the environment helps to structure the biology of insanity along with genetic inheritance.

He received free teaching in pharmacology and toxicology. Since 1972, he became the Head of Psychiatry, and since then he has been practicing in social structures with various changes that followed the systems of care for the mentally ill until 1999. He is the co-founder and first secretary of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry. For many years, he presides over a session on the psychopathology of expression at the World Psychiatric Association, of which he is currently honorary president. Founder and co-director of the Italian Quaderni di Psichiatria for twenty years.

Italian member of the Safety Working Group of the European Medicines Assessment Agency from 1998 to 2001. Professor of General Psychology and Growth Psychology at the University of Molise in 1998 - 2001. He is a member of the new York Academy of Sciences, Lombardo Institute of Sciences and Literature and the Academy of Agriculture, Science, Literature and the Arts (Verona). His most significant scientific contribution is related to the following topics: 1. Plasticity of the brain as a “place” of mental pathology and, therefore, the field of psychiatry; in this context, he argues that the environment (experience) helps to structure the brain. 2. Non-verbal communications (graphics, pantomime, sound, rhythm) in psychiatry, as an extension of the relationship between the patient and the doctor, as well as an expression that can reach the level of art; 3. The close relationship between culture and psychiatry and, therefore, psychiatry as a discipline that is also part of anthropology; 4. The study of extreme behavior and analysis of homicides with a contribution to psychiatry in relation to jurisprudence. In particular, he maintains the compatibility between norm and murder, determining its dynamics, contrasting himself with Lombroz, who instead associated the murder with brain degeneration, with a state of pathology; 5. The study of feelings, understood as a necessary element to overcome fear and change social behavior. In particular, he devoted himself to the behavior of adolescents; 6.

He is the author of books in the field of medicine, literature, poetry and collaborates with the magazine Mente and Brain and the newspaper Avvenire [3] Atma - seen on January 2, 2009.

Several series of programs have been made for the Sat 2000 publisher. Duration of about 30 minutes, dedicated to teens (TVB teens), the elderly (grandparents) and the family (a call called family).