Biological Psychiatry
A section of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Section Information
Broadly speaking, the section “Biological Psychiatry” includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
- Identification of biological substrates underlying neuropsychiatric disorders as revealed by genomics, proteomics, physiological, and neuroimaging measures, with the support of network analyses.
- The application of quantitative physiological measures directed towards the following clinical objectives: diagnosis, longitudinal assessment of treatment response or disease progression, and validation of physiological prodromes that identify individuals at risk of developing neuropsychiatric disease.
- Application and extension of physiologically based technologies that may address the previously enumerated areas, including electroencephalography, event-related potentials, heart rate variability, eye tracking, and imaging studies. Studies may include combinations of different measures with the most innovative methods of artificial intelligence/machine learning.
- Physiologically based treatments of neuropsychiatric disorders including the investigation of neurobiological changes in response to treatment. Treatment interventions include neuropsychopharmacology, electroconvulsive therapy, neurofeedback, transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagal stimulation, deep brain stimulation, psychosurgery, and transcranial temporal interference stimulation.
- Identification of physiological correlates with psychological treatments (psychotherapy/ psychoanalysis). This includes physiological studies of unconscious processes and neuropsychoanalysis.
