Prof. Antonio Maria Persico graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1986. In 1990 he obtained a Specialization Diploma in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Since 2021 he has been a 1st level University Professor in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he directs the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Program of the A.O.U. of Modena.