Prof. Dr. Paola Rocca is a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Turin. She is the Chief of the Center for Treatment-Resistant Psychotic Disorders and she set up the Center for Cognitive Rehabilitation at the Department of Neurosciences, Turin. She has been the Vice Director of Scientific Research and currently, she is the Vice Director of Quality at the Department of Neuroscience, “Rita Levi Montalcini”. She is a member of the steering committee of the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses (NIRP) and a councilor on the executive committee of the Italian Society of Psychopathology. She is the Coordinator of the schizophrenia research section at the Department of Mental Health, Turin. Her interests in clinical psychiatry research on schizophrenia include the study and classification of schizophrenia according to different patterns of symptoms/cognitive deficits; evaluation of depressive symptoms in schizophrenia using specific standardized scales; study of the correlation between depressive symptoms and cognitive functions/functional outcome and subjective and objective quality of life and coping; study of delusion and cognitive pattern in acute and stable patients with schizophrenia, disorganized and paranoid type; social cognition: clinical, neuropsychological, and neurobiological aspects; the impact of new and old antipsychotic drugs on cognitive functioning.