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Call for papers - Intergenerational psychiatry

Guest Editor

Alessandro Rodolico, MD, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
 

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 10 August 2024
 

BMC Psychiatry welcomes submissions for the Collection on Intergenerational psychiatry. 

Intergenerational psychiatry is focused on the transmission of vulnerability and resilience to mental illness between generations, and it develops interventions and preventive strategies to interrupt and avert this transmission, limiting the impact of mental illness earlier than ever thought possible.

This Collection is interested in research spanning epidemiology, developmental neuroscience, neuroimaging and psychophysiology, data science, genetics, epigenetics, maternal-fetal biology, amongst others.

New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing.

Meet the Guest Editor

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Alessandro Rodolico, MD, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
 

Dr Alessandro Rodolico is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist affiliated with the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Catania.

His research primarily focuses on the management of long-term challenges in schizophrenia, with additional interests in bipolar disorder and mixed depression. His methodological approaches include systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and network meta-analyses. Dr Rodolico is also an Editorial Board Member of BMC Psychiatry and serves as the regional delegate of the Italian Society of Psychiatry – Early Career Adult Psychiatrist section.

About the Collection

BMC Psychiatry welcomes submissions for the Collection on Intergenerational psychiatry. 

Intergenerational psychiatry is focused on the transmission of vulnerability and resilience to mental illness between generations, and it develops interventions and preventive strategies to interrupt and avert this transmission, limiting the impact of mental illness earlier than ever thought possible.

This Collection is interested in research spanning epidemiology, developmental neuroscience, neuroimaging and psychophysiology, data science, genetics, epigenetics, maternal-fetal biology, amongst others.

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  1. One of the most robust risk factors for developing a mood disorder is having a parent with a mood disorder. Unfortunately, mechanisms explaining the transmission of mood disorders from one generation to the ne...

    Authors: Annabel Vreeker, Melany Horsfall, Merijn Eikelenboom, Annemerle Beerthuizen, Veerle Bergink, Marco P. M. Boks, Catharina A. Hartman, Ricki de Koning, Max de Leeuw, Dominique F. Maciejewski, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx and Manon H. J. Hillegers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:227
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Intergenerational psychiatry" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.