Dr Lucia R. Valmaggia  BSc, MSc, PhD
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
Peggy Pollak Research Fellow
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Associate Clinical Director Early Detection, Psychosis CAG

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address	Institute of Psychiatry Box  P077 De Crespigny Park London United Kingdom, SE5 8AF
location	1.13 Henry Wellcome Building
departments	Psychology Psychosis Studies
also	Psychosis research

biography

I am a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry. I work as Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist in OASIS and I am the Associate Clinical Director for Early Intervention, Psychosis Clinical Academic Group , South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

I studied clinical psychology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and did my PhD at the School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Manchester.

I have been working for the Institute of Psychiatry and for SLAM from 2003.

My research interests include the psychological treatment of psychosis, early intervention, virtual reality and the link between stress and the onset of psychotic symptoms.

teaching activities

publications

Illustrative recent publications

Demjaha, A., Valmaggia, L., Stahl, D., Byrne, M., McGuire, P.K. (2010), Cognitive and negative symptom dimensions in the At Risk Mental State predict subsequent transition to psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin. Article in press

Broome, M.R., Fusar-Poli, P., Matthiasson, P., Woolley, J.B., Valmaggia, L., Johns, L.C., Tabraham, P., Bramon, E., Williams, S.C.R., Brammer, M.J., Chitnis, X., Zelaya, F., McGuire, P.K. Neural correlates of visuospatial working memory in the at-risk mental state (2010) Psychological Medicine, 40 (12), pp. 1987-1999.

Fusar-Poli, P., Broome, M.R., Woolley, J.B., Johns, L.C., Tabraham, P., Bramon, E., Valmaggia, L., Williams, S.C., McGuire, P. Altered brain function directly related to structural abnormalities in people at ultra high risk of psychosis: Longitudinal VBM-fMRI study (2010) Journal of Psychiatric Research, . Article in Press.

Green, C.E.L., McGuire, P.K., Ashworth, M, Valmaggia, L.R. Outreach and Support in South London (OASIS). Outcomes of non-attenders to a service for people at high risk of psychosis: the case for a more assertive approach to assessment (2010) Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-8.

Fusar-Poli, P., Byrne, M., Valmaggia, L., Day, F., Tabraham, P., Johns, L., McGuire, P. Social dysfunction predicts two years clinical outcome in people at ultra high risk for psychosis (2010) Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44 (5), pp. 294-301.

Stinson, K., Valmaggia, L.R., Antley, A., Slater, M., Freeman, D. Cognitive triggers of auditory hallucinations: An experimental investigation (2010) Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41 (3), pp. 179-184.

Valmaggia, L.R., McCrone, P., Knapp, M., Woolley, J.B., Broome, M.R., Tabraham, P., Johns, L.C., Prescott, C., Bramon, E., Lappin, J., Power, P., McGuire, P.K. Economic impact of early intervention in people at high risk of psychosis (2009) Psychological Medicine, 39 (10), pp. 1617-1626.

Fusar-Poli, P., Meneghelli, A., Valmaggia, L., Allen, P., Galvan, F., McGuire, P., Cocchi, A. Duration of untreated prodromal symptoms and 12-month functional outcome of individuals at risk of psychosis (2009) British Journal of Psychiatry, 194 (2), pp. 181-182.

Broome, M.R., Matthiasson, P., Fusar-Poli, P., Woolley, J.B., Johns, L.C., Tabraham, P., Bramon, E., Valmaggia, L., Williams, S.C.R., Brammer, M.J., Chitnis, X., McGuire, P.K. Neural correlates of executive function and working memory in the ’at-risk mental state’ (2009) British Journal of Psychiatry, 194 (1), pp. 25-33.

Howes, O.D., Montgomery, A.J., Asselin, M.-C., Murray, R.M., Valli, I., Tabraham, P., Bramon-Bosch, E., Valmaggia, L., Johns, L., Broome, M., McGuire, P.K., Grasby, P.M. Elevated striatal dopamine function linked to prodromal signs of schizophenia (2009) Archives of General Psychiatry, 66 (1), pp. 13-20.

Fusar-Poli, P., Howes, O., Valmaggia, L., McGuire, P. ’Truman’ signs and vulnerability to psychosis (2008) British Journal of Psychiatry, 193 (2), p. 168.

Bramon, E., Shaikh, M., Broome, M., Lappin, J., Bergé, D., Day, F., Woolley, J., Tabraham, P., Madre, M., Johns, L., Howes, O., Valmaggia, L., Pérez, V., Sham, P., Murray, R.M., McGuire, P. Abnormal P300 in people with high risk of developing psychosis (2008) NeuroImage, 41 (2), pp. 553-560.

Valmaggia, L.R., Tabraham, P., Morris, E., Bouman, T.K. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia (2008) Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 15 (2), pp. 179-193.

Broome, M.R., Johns, L.C., Valli, I., Woolley, J.B., Tabraham, P., Brett, C., Valmaggia, L., Peters, E., Garety, P.A., McGuire, P.K. Delusion formation and reasoning biases in those at clinical high risk for psychosis (2007) British Journal of Psychiatry, 191 (SUPPL. 51), pp. s38-s42.

Brett, C.M.C., Peters, E.P., Johns, L.C., Tabraham, P., Valmaggia, L.R., McGuire, P. Appraisals of Anomalous Experiences Interview (AANEX): A multidimensional measure of psychological responses to anomalies associated with psychosis (2007) British Journal of Psychiatry, 191 (SUPPL. 51), pp. s23-s30.

Valmaggia, L.R., Freeman, D., Green, C., Garety, P., Swapp, D., Antley, A., Prescott, C., Fowler, D., Kuipers, E., Bebbington, P., Slater, M., Broome, M., McGuire, P.K. Virtual reality and paranoid ideations in people with an ’at-risk mental state’ for psychosis (2007) British Journal of Psychiatry, 191 (SUPPL. 51), pp. s63-s68

Fusar-Poli, P., Valmaggia, L., McGuire, P. Can antidepressants prevent psychosis? (2007) Lancet, 370 (9601), pp. 1746-1748.

Freeman, D., Pugh, K., Green, C., Valmaggia, L., Dunn, G., Garety, P. A measure of state persecutory ideation for experimental studies (2007) Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195 (9), pp. 781-784.

Valmaggia, L.R., Bouman, T.K., Schuurman, L. Attention Training With Auditory Hallucinations: A Case Study (2007) Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 14 (2), pp. 127-133.

Lappin, J.M., Morgan, K.D., Valmaggia, L.R., Broome, M.R., Woolley, J.B., Johns, L.C., Tabraham, P., Bramon, E., McGuire, P.K. Insight in individuals with an At Risk Mental State (2007) Schizophrenia Research, 90 (1-3), pp. 238-244.

van der Gaag, M., Cuijpers, A., Hoffman, T., Remijsen, M., Hijman, R., de Haan, L., van Meijel, B., van Harten, P.N., Valmaggia, L., de Hert, M., Wiersma, D. The five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale I: Confirmatory factor analysis fails to confirm 25 published five-factor solutions (2006) Schizophrenia Research, 85 (1-3), pp. 273-279.

van der Gaag, M., Hoffman, T., Remijsen, M., Hijman, R., de Haan, L., van Meijel, B., van Harten, P.N., Valmaggia, L., de Hert, M., Cuijpers, A., Wiersma, D. The five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale II: A ten-fold cross-validation of a revised model (2006) Schizophrenia Research, 85 (1-3), pp. 280-287. Cited 28 times.

Broome, M.R., Woolley, J.B., Johns, L.C., Valmaggia, L.R., Tabraham, P., Gafoor, R., Bramon, E., McGuire, P.K. Outreach and support in south London (OASIS): Implementation of a clinical service for prodromal psychosis and the at risk mental state (2005) European Psychiatry, 20 (5-6), pp. 372-378

Valmaggia, L.R., Van Der Gaag, M., Tarrier, N., Pijnenborg, M., Slooff, C.J. Cognitive-behavioural therapy for refractory psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia resistant to atypical antipsychotic medication: Randomised controlled trial (2005) British Journal of Psychiatry, 186 (APR.), pp. 324-330.

last updated: Monday, March 21, 2011