**About the Editor**

## **Matteo Chiappedi**

Dr Matteo Alessio Chiappedi is a child neuropsychiatrist working in the Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit of Vigevano (ASST Pavia). He also has a specialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a Master in Diagnosis and Treatment of Learning Disabilities and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Neuroscience.

He was Adjunct Professor for the F. Bonaccorsi Foundation, for the Catholic University of Brescia, for the University of Milan and for the University of Pavia; he lectured on different aspects of child and adolescent neurology and psychiatry.

He has published in international indexed journals a number of papers, concerning mostly child and adolescent psychiatry (but also neurological and rehabilitative aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders in all life ages).

His main research interests are the understanding of psychiatric disorders, especially in children and adolescents, and the possible treatment options to lower their effect on patients' and caregivers' life quality.
