Recent Advances in the Research of 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 (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 4770
Special Issue Editors
Interests: addiction; relapse; PTSD; pathological memory; memory reconsolidation; memory extinction; neural circuits; neural oscillations; neural modulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mental disorders are a group of brain disorders characterized by behavioral or psychological patterns that result in significant distress and abnormal functions. Despite the high prevalence of mental disorders, effective treatments for mental disorders remain limited. For example, about one-third of patients with major depressive disorders do not respond to current antidepressants. Furthermore, many people with mental disorders are undertreated due to the stigmatization and misconceptions of the public about mental disorders. These are largely due to the insufficiency of our understanding of the pathology of mental disorders. In the last decades, with the help of newly innovated technologies such as optical recording, optogenetics, and sing-cell sequencing, the neural mechanisms of mental disorders have been uncovered to some extent. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of mental disorders, their neural mechanisms, and treatments.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- The cellular and molecular basis of mental disorders
- Epigenetics mechanisms underlying mental disorders
- Biomarkers and phenotypes for diagnosing mental disorders
- Neural circuits involved in mental disorders and their functions
- Pharmacological targets and pharmacotherapeutics for the treatment of mental disorders
- Neural modulations and behavioral therapies
- Future perspectives for the treatment of mental disorders
Dr. Yanxue Xue
Dr. Jianfeng Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mental disoders
- neuropathology
- biomarkers
- neural circuits
- pharmacotherapeutics
- non- pharmacological interventions