Dr Ingrosso is a Clinical Research Associate at the Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. He works on the clinical management of research participants across multiple clinical trials in mood disorders, within the Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) – Mission Mood Disorders workstream, a major NIHR-supported national initiative aimed at improving outcomes for individuals with mental health conditions.

He is also a PhD candidate in the same Department, working on the optimisation of lithium treatment outcomes across mood disorders, and an Honorary Specialist Registrar at the National Affective Disorders Service, Maudsley Hospital, where he works in the assessment and management of patients with difficult-to-treat affective disorders.

Dr Ingrosso completed his medical degree at the University of Pisa, Italy, graduating with distinction and special mention, and his specialist training in General Psychiatry at the University of Milan and ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo in Milan, Italy, graduating with distinction. During the final year of his training, he joined the Centre for Affective Disorders at the IoPPN as a visiting research fellow, conducting research on treatment-resistant depression, and undertook supervised clinical work at the National Affective Disorders Service, Maudsley Hospital.

Before entering medical training, he completed a Master of Music in Flute Performance in Lecce, Italy.

His research interests span affective disorders, with a focus on difficult-to-treat depression, lithium treatment and the bipolar spectrum. He has also conducted research on neurodivergence, including subthreshold autistic and ADHD traits.

Research Interests

• Affective Disorders
• Treatment-resistant Depression
• Bipolar Disorders
• Lithium
• Subthreshold autistic and ADHD traits

Research Groups

Centre for Affective Disorders

Teaching

MSc in Affective Disorders

Key publications

Nisticò, V., Del Giudice, R., Serio, F., Boido, G., Ingrosso, G., Lombardi, F., Sanguineti, C., Casula, V., Baccara, A., Chiudinelli, E., Vairano, F., Panzeri, F. M., Giori, M., Inghilleri di Villadauro, P. M., Faggioli, R., Gambini, O., Subini, T., & Demartini, B. (2025). Camera Movement Impacts on Mu-Wave Activity During Action Observation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disabilities. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 18(4), 774–787. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70012

Ingrosso, G., Cleare, A. J., & Juruena, M. F. (2025). Is there a risk of addiction to ketamine during the treatment of depression? A systematic review of available literature. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 39(1), 49–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811241303597

Ingrosso, G.*, Nisticò, V.*, Lombardi, F., Morlacchi, B., Cigognini, A. C., Oresti, M., Faggioli, R., Mottaran, A., Redaelli, C. A., Tramontano, M., Ranzini, L., Anselmetti, S., Bertelli, S., Gambini, O., & Demartini, B. (2024). Exploring the links between sensory sensitivity, autistic traits and autism-related eating behaviours in a sample of adult women with eating disorders. Scientific reports, 14(1), 27155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74984-3

Demartini, B.*, Ingrosso, G.*, Serio, F., Nisticò, V., Broglia, G., Bertani, A., Faggioli, R., Gambini, O., Massimetti, G., Dell'Osso, L., & Carpita, B. (2024). Prevalence of autistic traits and their relationships with other psychopathological domains in young adults seeking psychiatric attention: a cluster analysis. European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists, 67(1), e71. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1791

Ostuzzi G., Gastaldon C., Tettamanti M., Cartabia M., Monti I., Aguglia A., Aguglia E., Bartoli F., Callegari C., Canozzi A., Carbone E.A., Carrà G., Caruso R., Cavallotti S., Chiappini S., Colasante F., Compri B., D'Agostino A., De Fazio P., de Filippis R., Gari M., Ielmini M., Ingrosso G., Mammarella S., Martinotti G., Rodolico A., Roncone R., Sterzi E., Tarsitani L., Tiberto E., Todini L., Amaddeo F., D'Avanzo B.; VESPA Study Group; Barbato A., Barbui C. (2024). Tolerability of vortioxetine compared to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in older adults with major depressive disorder (VESPA): a randomised, assessor-blinded and statistician-blinded, multicentre, superiority trial. EClinicalMedicine, 69, 102491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102491

Nisticò, V.*, Ingrosso, G.*, Lombardi, F., Chiudinelli, E., Bianchini, G., Faggioli, R., Bertani, A., Gambini, O., & Demartini, B. (2024). Autistic traits, sensory sensitivity and eating disturbances in a sample of young adults referring to a generalized mental health clinic. Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 29(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-024-01639-7