Francesco Benedetti combined his research activities with everyday clinical work in the hospital, with university teaching appointments, and with coordination and leadership of research units in the broad field of psychiatry and clinical neurosciences. His main research interests are within the field of translational and reversetranslational research in psychiatry, and include brain imaging and neural correlates of psychiatric diseases and therapeutics, psychiatric genetics, chronobiology and chronotherapeutics of mood disorders, developing new treatment techniques based on the administration of environmental stimuli to synchronize the biological clock. Other areas of interest include clinical neuropsychology and animal models of psychiatric diseases