Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Issues All round the World

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

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