Maria Nobile is specialist in Psychiatry and obtained an international PhD in Experimental Psychiatry at Maastricht University. She has over 25 years of experience of clinical work and clinical research in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. Main research interests are in Developmental psychopathology (including ADHD, Autism, externalizing disorder, and anxiety/depression). She is author of more than 100 articles in experimental psychiatry with more than 1600 international citations, h-index 24. Currently she is in charge of the Unit of Child Psychopharmachology and Psychotherapy and of the Unit of Rehabilitation for children with complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, www.emedea.it. She is adjunct professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Psychology Department of the Sigmund Freud University, Milan and at the Department of Medicine of the Humanitas University, Milan, Italy. Member of the European Psychiatric Association (Secretary of the EPA Neuroimaging Section), of the Italian Society of Psychiatry and of the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Affective Disorder and Section Editor of the Special Section on "Translational and Neuroscience Studies in Affective Disorders" of the Journal of Affective Disorders