Clinical and Biological Characterization of Psychiatric Disorders
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clinical characterization of major psychiatric disorders; neural basis of major psychiatric disorders; medical education
Interests: depression; suicide; biological psychiatry; neuroinflammation; microglia; oxidative stress; metabolomics; biomarker; psychoimmunology; neuropsychoanalysis; social and cultural psychiatry
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Interests: depression; psychopathology; network analysis; machine learning; biological psychiatry; psychopharmacology; philosophy of psychiatry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Psychiatric disorders such as psychotic, affective, and anxiety disorders are complex neuro-behavioural conditions that can have a myriad of clinical manifestations and are influenced by multifaceted biological and psychosocial factors in terms of aetiology. We need better clinical and biological characterisation of these conditions in order to improve our understanding of the nature of these conditions and underlying causative mechanisms. Some ways to profile the condition can be through illness subtyping such as symptom clusters (e.g., positive, negative, and disorganised syndromes in schizophrenia, marked fears and avoidance in anxiety conditions), symptom course (e.g., predominant polarity in bipolar disorder), illness course (e.g., remission, relapse status), treatment patterns (e.g., psychotropic agent prescriptions), and response (e.g., inadequate response, treatment resistance), patterns of comorbidities and crossover diagnostic categories. These illness subtypes can then be further examined with other clinical correlates, cognitive functioning, and biological substrates such as neuroimaging measures of brain cortical and subcortical volumes, white matter architecture, cerebral function, putative genetic factors, physiological measures, inflammatory markers, etc. Such characterisations of psychiatric disorders and associated factors can potentially allow for the clarification of neural basis of these conditions and also highlight the clinical and biological predictors of illness course and outcome.
We greatly encourage the submission of relevant original articles based on empirical studies as well as review articles related to this theme to this Special Issue.
Dr. Kang Sim
Dr. Takahiro Kato
Dr. Seon-Cheol Park
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clinical
- biological
- subtyping
- psychiatric disorders
- neural basis
