New Technologies and Translational Approach for an Early Diagnosis of Bipolar Spectrum and Hyperactive and Novelty Seeking Profiles
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 35
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychiatry; statistics; bipolar disorders; mood; biomarkers
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Interests: psychopharmacology; molecular neuroscience & psychiatry; schizophrenia; translational neuroscience and psychiatry
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Interests: molecular biology; genetics of mood disorders; laboratory medicine; metabolomics, oral microbiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The expectation of defining a precise genetic marker that can identify bipolar disorder (BD) has been dashed by current research, as the psycho-pathology of severe mental illnesses, including BD, includes complex traits sustained by the coalescence of many genes, each of which exerts small influences on observable phenomena, thus hindering Mendelian randomization studies and the identification of reliable biomarkers of lithium response.
A broader view of the polygenic hypothesis has prompted current studies to look for conditions, possibly related to specific genetic characteristics, that might, in interaction with the environment, put BD at risk in interaction with the environment.
This Special Issue aims to gather contributions in the area of research we have thus defined. In particular, because of the preventive importance of being able to identify conditions at risk of developing bipolar disorder, this contribution aims to gather information on new genetic, laboratory, and more generally diagnostic techniques that may make it possible to identify the risk area, described by the above-mentioned new line of research, of future bipolar disorder.
Contributors are welcome to use the formats of an original research article, brief research report, systematic review, review, mini-review, policy and practice review, hypothesis and theory, perspective, case report, community case study, general commentary, or opinion.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in JCM.
Dr. Massimo Tusconi
Prof. Dr. Serdar Murat Dursun
Prof. Dr. Germano Orru
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychiatry
- mental health
- bipolar disorders
- mood
- biomarkers
- new technology
- BD
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