Depression, Anxiety and Related Psychiatric Disorders: Clinical Advances and Future Directions
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuropsychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 172
Editor
2. School of Clinical Medicine—Royal Brisbane Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
3. Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: mental health; mental illness; novel treatment; hypothesis-driven; burden of disease
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Dear Colleagues,
Mental illness is a leading cause of disability worldwide, having a significant impact on all domains of function for those affected (i.e., family, social, work/academic) and associated sequela on human capital and the economic burden of disease. Moreover, emerging evidence indicates that the burden of mental illness is increasing, with a surge post-COVID amid unprecedented socio-politico-economic, environmental, and digital pressures globally. Alarmingly, notwithstanding consistent data demonstrating the adverse effect of mental illness on an individual, as well as at a global scale, with respect to its association with long-term disability, there has been a stagnation in mental health investment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The foregoing observation serves as a clarion call for urgent action for addressing gaps in mental health care including, but not necessarily limited to, the prioritization of prevention, reducing stigma, engaging in multi-sectoral collaboration toward equitable healthcare expansion, and sustained investment in mental health services and research to identify underlying causes of mental illness.
This Special Issue of Brain Sciences will present a collection of studies that detail clinical advances in the prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness that may inform future directions for addressing gaps in mental health care from a multi-sectoral perspective.
Authors are invited to submit innovative and hypothesis-driven research and reviews that address a broad range of topics related to mental illness including, but not limited to, the following: epidemiology, screening, early diagnosis, evidence-based intervention, comorbidities, new technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence), biomarkers, novel manual based therapies, psychotherapies, psychopharmacological interventions, policy, economic studies on the burden of mental illness, healthcare service models, prevention strategies, etc. Taken together, this Special Issue will explore clinical advances and future directions in the treatment of mental illness for achieving real-world impact on a global scale.
Dr. Danielle S. Cha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mental illness
- depression
- anxiety
- disability
- economic
- treatment
- artificial intelligence
- prevention
- stigma
- function
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