Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry
Submission Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Guest Editors
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy
Interests: bipolar; affective disorders
Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Interests: olanzapine; neuroleptic agent; mental disease; sleep initiation and maintenance disorders; insomnia; sleep hygiene; ketamine; treatment-resistant depressive disorder; involutional depression
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The year 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of Alpha Psychiatry, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to advancing psychiatric science and clinical practice. Over the past quarter-century, Alpha Psychiatry has published more than 1,500 articles, contributing significantly to the field.
To celebrate this important milestone, we are pleased to announce a special anniversary issue entitled: “25 Years of Alpha Psychiatry: Progress and Perspectives in Psychiatry”. This issue aims to highlight emerging trends and outline future directions in psychiatric research and clinical practice.
We invite our colleagues to join us in celebrating this achievement by submitting contributions to this special issue.
Prof. Francesco Bartoli and Prof. Wei Zheng
Guest Editors
Keyword
- alpha psychiatry
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Published Papers (7)
Construction and Verification of a Risk Prediction Model for Suicidal Ideation in Patients With Bipolar Disorder: A Machine Learning Analysis
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(2), 45589; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP45589 (registering DOI)
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Artificial Intelligence in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Current Use and Future Perspectives. A Systematic Mapping Literature Review
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(2), 45104; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP45104 (registering DOI)
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Beyond Charles Bonnet Syndrome: A Scoping Review of Psychotic Symptoms in Vision Loss
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(2), 47195; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP47195 (registering DOI)
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Psychobiotics in Mental Health – Between Hope, Evidence, and the Need for Precision
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(2), 45973; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP45973 (registering DOI)
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Neurocognitive Processing of Facial Emotion Recognition in Individuals With Depression and Suicidal Ideation: An Eye-Tracking and EEG Study
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(1), 44992; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP44992
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Rethinking Autism as an Affective-Empathy Disorder
Alpha Psychiatry 2026, 27(1), 45867; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP45867
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)
Highly Cited Articles in Evolutionary Psychiatry: Assessment With a Quality and Error Rating Scale
Alpha Psychiatry 2025, 26(6), 39276; https://doi.org/10.31083/AP39276
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty-five Years at the Alpha Psychiatry Progresses on Psychiatry)