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The “Psychiatric Diseases” Section the journal Brain Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3425) gathers the best available scientific evidence to guide clinical practice in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. Original articles and reviews that advance our understanding of the etiology, course, and treatment of psychiatric illnesses are welcome. Papers reporting sound evidence-based practices that provide safeguards against reporting bias and promote the reproducibility of study procedures and the replicability of results, for example through the preregistration of study hypotheses, will also be highly valued.

As all of the articles published in our journal are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full texts. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 and 2022 listed below:

1. “What Is the Role of Resilience and Coping Strategies on the Mental Health of the General Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results from the Italian Multicentric COMET Study”
by Gaia Sampogna, Valeria Del Vecchio, Vincenzo Giallonardo, Mario Luciano, Umberto Albert, Claudia Carmassi, Giuseppe Carrà, Francesca Cirulli, Bernardo Dell’Osso, Giulia Menculini et al.
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(9), 1231; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091231
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/9/1231

2. “Therapeutic Potentials of Ketamine and Esketamine in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Eating Disorders (ED): A Review of the Current Literature”
by Giovanni Martinotti, Stefania Chiappini, Mauro Pettorruso, Alessio Mosca, Andrea Miuli, Francesco Di Carlo, Giacomo D’Andrea, Roberta Collevecchio, Ilenia Di Muzio, Stefano L. Sensi et al.
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(7), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11070856
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/7/856

3. “Access to Mental Health Care during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Results from the COMET Multicentric Study”
by Giulia Menculini, Alfonso Tortorella, Umberto Albert, Claudia Carmassi, Giuseppe Carrà, Francesca Cirulli, Bernardo Dell’Osso, Mario Luciano, Maria Giulia Nanni, Maurizio Pompili et al.
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(11), 1413; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111413
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/11/1413

4. “The Importance of Type D Personality in the Development of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMDs) and Depression in Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
by Magdalena Gębska, Bartosz Dalewski, Łukasz Pałka, Łukasz Kołodziej and Ewa Sobolewska
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/1/28

5. “Therapeutic Neurostimulation in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Systematic Review”
by Nicola Acevedo, Peter Bosanac, Toni Pikoos, Susan Rossell and David Castle
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(7), 948; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11070948
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/7/948

6. “Prevalence of Individuals at Clinical High-Risk of Psychosis in the General Population and Clinical Samples: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
by Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo, Scott W. Woods, Georgia Drymonitou, Héctor de Diego and Paolo Fusar-Poli
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(11), 1544; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111544
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/11/1544

7. “Coping Strategies and Stress Related Disorders in Patients with COVID-19”
by Liana Dehelean, Ion Papava, Madalina Iuliana Musat, Mariana Bondrescu, Felix Bratosin, Bianca Oana Bucatos, Ana-Maria Cristina Bortun, Daniela Violeta Mager, Radu Stefan Romosan, Ana-Maria Romosan et al.
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(10), 1287; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101287
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/10/1287

8. “Social Isolation, Loneliness and Generalized Anxiety: Implications and Associations during the COVID-19 Quarantine”
by Linas Wilkialis, Nelson B. Rodrigues, Danielle S. Cha, Ashley Siegel, Amna Majeed, Leanna M. W. Lui, Jocelyn K. Tamura, Barjot Gill, Kayla Teopiz and Roger S. McIntyre
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(12), 1620; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121620
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/12/1620

9. “The Elephant in the Room: A Cross-Sectional Study on the Stressful Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mental Healthcare Workers”
by Alessandra Minelli, Rosana Carvalho Silva, Stefano Barlati, Marika Vezzoli, Sara Carletto, Cinzia Isabello, Marco Bortolomasi, Gabriele Nibbio, Jacopo Lisoni, Valentina Menesello et al.
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(3), 408; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030408
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/408

10. “Substance Use in the Transgender Population: A Meta-Analysis”
by Miriam Cotaina, Marc Peraire, Mireia Boscá, Iván Echeverria, Ana Benit and Gonzalo Haro
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(3), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030366
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/366

11. “Cytokines and Neurodegeneration in Epileptogenesis”
by Pawel Wolinski, Dominika Ksiazek-Winiarek and Andrzej Glabinski
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(3), 380; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030380
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/380

12. “Neurobiology of the Orexin System and Its Potential Role in the Regulation of Hedonic Tone”
by Martin A. Katzman and Matthew P. Katzman
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(2), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020150
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/2/150

13. “Ketamine as a Novel Psychopharmacotherapy for Eating Disorders: Evidence and Future Directions”
by Anya Ragnhildstveit, Matthew Slayton, Laura Kate Jackson, Madeline Brendle, Sachin Ahuja, Willis Holle, Claire Moore, Kellie Sollars, Paul Seli and Reid Robison
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(3), 382; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030382
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/382

14. “Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte, Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte, Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Systemic Immune-Inflammatory Index in Different States of Bipolar Disorder”
by Katerina Dadouli, Michel B. Janho, Apostolia Hatziefthimiou, Ioanna Voulgaridi, Konstantina Piaha, Lemonia Anagnostopoulos, Panagiotis Ntellas, Varvara A. Mouchtouri, Konstantinos Bonotis, Nikolaos Christodoulou et al.
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(8), 1034; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12081034
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/8/1034

15. “Utilizing Cognitive Training to Improve Working Memory, Attention, and Impulsivity in School-Aged Children with ADHD and SLD”
by Grahamm M. Wiest, Kevin P. Rosales, Lisa Looney, Eugene H. Wong and Dudley J. Wiest
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(2), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020141
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/2/141

16. “COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: The Psychological Impact on Non-Infected Persons”
by Jagdish Khubchandani, Sushil Sharma, Fern J. Webb, Michael J. Wiblishauser and Manoj Sharma
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(9), 1123; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12091123
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/9/1123

17. “Revisiting Hemispheric Asymmetry in Mood Regulation: Implications for rTMS for Major Depressive Disorder”
by Benjamin C. Gibson, Andrei Vakhtin, Vincent P. Clark, Christopher C. Abbott and Davin K. Quinn
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(1), 112; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010112
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/1/112

18. “Examining First Night Effect on Sleep Parameters with hd-EEG in Healthy Individuals”
by Ahmad Mayeli, Sabine A. Janssen, Kamakashi Sharma and Fabio Ferrarelli
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(2), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020233
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/2/233

19. “COVID-19 Vaccination and Mental Disorders, What Has Been Accomplished and Future Direction”
by Gianluca Pandolfo, Giovanni Genovese, Fiammetta Iannuzzo, Antonio Bruno, Giovanni Pioggia and Sebastiano Gangemi
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(2), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020292
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/2/292

20. “Motion, Relation, and Passion in Brain Physiological and Cognitive Aging”
by Hermundur Sigmundsson, Benjamin H. Dybendal and Simone Grassini
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(9), 1122; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12091122
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/9/1122