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Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Issues All round the World

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 6890

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Kenneth Blum

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1. Division of Nutrigenomics, SpliceGen, Therapeutics, Inc., Austin, TX 78701, USA
2. Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
3. Division of Addiction Research & Education, Center for Sports, Exercise, & Mental Health, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA
4. Department of Molecular Biology, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
5. Division of Personalized Pain Therapy Research & Education, Center for Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA
6. The Kenneth Blum Behavioral & Neurogenetic Institute, LLC., Austin, TX 78701, USA

Interests: addiction research; personalized medicine; genetic factors influencing addiction and behavioral disorders employing nutrigenomics and epigenetics; addiction recovery; pain therapy; mental health
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Prof. Dr. Igor Elman

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Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Interests: addiction medicine; stress system; pathophysiology of severe neuropsychiatric disorders; psychiatry
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Prof. Dr. Panayotis Thanos

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1. Behavioral Neuropharmacology and Neuroimaging Laboratory on Addictions (BNNLA), Clinical Research Institute on Addictions, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
2. Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
Interests: bariatric surgery; exercise; social environment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of IJERPH focuses on a collection of research on “Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Issues All round the World”, and especially on molecular and clinical sciences, including the promotion of public health. The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI.

We welcome submissions regarding, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Addiction;

- Mental health;

- Risk behaviors;

- Health promotion;

- Mental disorders;

- Public health.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, nursing, public health, occupational therapy and other social sciences to submit high-quality empirical papers or systematical reviews related to the issues in this research area. In this Special Issue, we are very interested in gaining an understanding of mechanisms related to reward processing, especially in relation to both substance and non-substance behavioral addictions. The utilization of neuroimaging tools to unravel neurotransmitter-based signaling in brain function is of special interest. Any and all articles focused on psychiatric genetics and epigenetics are of special interest moving from bench to bedside.

Prof. Dr. Kenneth Blum
Prof. Dr. Igor Elman
Prof. Dr. Panayotis Thanos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • addiction
  • mental health
  • risk behaviors
  • health promotion
  • mental disorders
  • public health

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Substance Use and Addiction in Athletes: The Case for Neuromodulation and Beyond
by John W. Dougherty III and David Baron
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 16082; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316082 - 1 Dec 2022
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Substance use, misuse and use disorders continue to be major problems in society as a whole and athletes are certainly not exempt. Substance use has surrounded sports since ancient times and the pressures associated with competition sometimes can increase the likelihood of use [...] Read more.
Substance use, misuse and use disorders continue to be major problems in society as a whole and athletes are certainly not exempt. Substance use has surrounded sports since ancient times and the pressures associated with competition sometimes can increase the likelihood of use and subsequent misuse. The addiction field as a whole has very few answers to how to prevent and secondarily treat substance use disorders and the treatments overall do not necessarily agree with the role of being an athlete. With concerns for side effects that may affect performance coupled with organizational rules and high rates of recidivism in the general population, newer treatments must be investigated. Prevention strategies must continue to be improved and more systems need to be in place to find and treat any underlying causes leading to these behaviors. This review attempts to highlight some of the data regarding the field of substance misuse and addiction in the athletic population as well as explore possible future directions for treatment including Neuromodulation methods and Ketamine. There is a need for more rigorous, high-quality studies to look at addiction as a whole and in particular how to approach this vulnerable subset of the population. Full article
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Prenatal Effects of Nicotine on Obesity Risks: A Narrative Review
by Olivia White, Nicole Roeder, Kenneth Blum, Rina D. Eiden and Panayotis K. Thanos
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 9477; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159477 - 2 Aug 2022
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Nicotine usage by mothers throughout pregnancy has been observed to relate to numerous deleterious effects in children, especially relating to obesity. Children who have prenatally been exposed to nicotine tend to have lower birth weights, with an elevated risk of becoming overweight throughout [...] Read more.
Nicotine usage by mothers throughout pregnancy has been observed to relate to numerous deleterious effects in children, especially relating to obesity. Children who have prenatally been exposed to nicotine tend to have lower birth weights, with an elevated risk of becoming overweight throughout development and into their adolescent and adult life. There are numerous theories as to how this occurs: catch-up growth theory, thrifty phenotype theory, neurotransmitter or endocrine imbalances theory, and a more recent examination on the genetic factors relating to obesity risk. In addition to the negative effect on bodyweight and BMI, individuals with obesity may also suffer from numerous comorbidities involving metabolic disease. These may include type 1 and 2 diabetes, high cholesterol levels, and liver disease. Predisposition for obesity with nicotine usage may also be associated with genetic risk alleles for obesity, such as the DRD2 A1 variant. This is important for prenatally nicotine-exposed individuals as an opportunity to provide early prevention and intervention of obesity-related risks. Full article
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