Molecular Research on Mental Disorders
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Neurobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 39251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognition; depression; anxiety; DSCAM; GABA; COX-2; mGluRs
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Interests: antidepressants; glutamate receptors; epigenetics; depression; animal models of depression; oxidative stress; neuroinflammation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mental disorders and substance use disorders affect approximately 13% of the world's population. This number may increase in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting changes in human functioning. Mental illnesses, in addition to having a serious impact on health, also have serious social and economic consequences in all countries of the world. There are many types of mental disorders with different presentations. In general, all of these are characterized by a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, emotions, and relationships with others. Mental disorders include depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders (including autism) that vary in their degree of severity. The causal mechanisms underlying mental disorders may contain keys to their effective prevention and treatment, but these remain poorly understood.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect and disseminate high-quality research articles as well as review articles that present the most up-to-date knowledge of the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of mental illnesses and new molecular drug targets in the treatment of mental disorders.
Dr. Katarzyna Stachowicz
Dr. Magdalena Sowa-Kućma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mental disorders
- genetic research
- epigenetics
- signal transduction pathways
- proteomics
- genomics
- molecular drug targets