Prof. Antonio Bruno graduated in Medicine in 1999, received a specialization in Psychiatry with honors in 2003, and obtained a PhD in Psychiatry in 2007 at the University of Messina. From 2011 to 2017, he was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (MED/25) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy. From 2018 to 2020, he was Senior Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (MED/25) ) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy. Since 2021 he has been Associate Professor of Psychiatry (MED/25) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy, where he is involved in teaching and research within the Department of Biomedical, Dental Sciences, and Morpho-functional Imaging. Since 2011, he has been a Professor in the Course of "Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology" at the School of Medicine and Surgery and in the School of Specialization in Psychiatry of the University of Messina. Since 2020, he has been a Professor in the School for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Techniques, University of Messina. Since 2013, he has been a board member of the Section of Adolescent Psychiatry, affiliate of the Italian Society of Psychiatry. His main research interests are: psychopharmacology (augmentation of therapeutic strategies for treating patients with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder who are resistant or partial responders to treatment), psychosomatics (irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, fibromyalgia), the emotion of anger, and sexual behavior.