Probing behavioral and psychological domains in psychiatric disorders and comorbidities

Dear Colleagues,

The daily well-being of functioning humans requires a healthy dynamic interaction of mental and psychological components, including cognition, emotion, reward appreciation, social interaction, arousal, motivation, and sensorimotor activity. The disturbance of this relationship may either be caused by, or lead to, a broad spectrum of illnesses due to psychiatric disorders and their associated comorbidities, which manifest as mental and behavioral symptoms. Understanding the pathogenesis, progression and prognosis of this disease, and planning their treatment, is a difficult challenge due to the involved polygenic, multifactorial, and heterogenic causative factors. Nevertheless, recent research has revealed that depression is a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, strokes, major depressive disorders, and chronic diseases. Thus, the treatment of depression may be an important intervention for these patients. In addition, the manipulation of memory consolidation and extinction may be an ideal strategy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and to enhance the effectiveness of meaning-based psychotherapy.

This Special Issue highlights the most recent advances in clinical and experimental research in the fields of psychiatry and their comorbidities, focusing on mental and psychological domains. We cordially invite authors to contribute original research articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following:

Etiology, pathogenesis and progression mechanisms;

Early diagnosis including biomarkers, bio-imaging, and biosensors;

Prophylactic, disease-modifying and therapeutic strategies, novel targets;

Novel drug discovery and development, naturally driven biomedicines, natural bioactive molecules and vaccines;

Preclinical in vitro models and animal models;

Bench-to-bedside translation research;

Bedside-to-bench translational research;

Comprehensive review, systematic review, and meta-analysis articles are also welcome.

Dr. Masaru Tanaka and Dr. Lehel Balogh

Guest Editors

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 2500 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.