Interdisciplinary Advances: Bridging Clinical Medicine and Clinical Psychology
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 May 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clinical psychology; psychopathology; quality of life; psycho-immunology; depressive and anxiety symptoms and disorders and chronic illnesses
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Interests: emotions; anxiety disorders; neuroplasticity
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Interests: mental disorder; clinical and health psychology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, “Interdisciplinary Advances: Bridging Clinical Medicine and Clinical Psychology”.
Brain health and mental well-being reflect the complex interplay between cognitive function, emotional resilience, physical conditions, and systemic biological processes. Recent advances in neuroscience, clinical medicine, clinical psychology, and public health have underscored the importance of a healthcare-oriented approach to brain health, one that goes beyond the study of isolated neurological or psychiatric disorders to consider their broader impact on patient care, disease progression, and health outcomes.
This Special Issue welcomes interdisciplinary and translational contributions that investigate brain health through a clinical and healthcare perspective. We particularly seek studies that explore how medical conditions, such as inflammatory, autoimmune, infectious, chronic or metabolic diseases, may affect brain function and psychological well-being and how such insights can be useful for prevention, assessment, treatment, and psychological care.
We encourage the submission of papers that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
-Chronic and systemic inflammation affecting cognitive and emotional function, with implications for compliance, clinical diagnosis, adherence, management, and outcomes.
-Brain–body interactions in chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal diseases) and their influence on perceived health-related quality of life.
-Mental health consequences of physical illness (e.g., fatigue, depression, anxiety, cognitive fog) and their integration into patient-centered and psychological care.
-The clinical application of multimodal diagnostic and monitoring tools, such as neuroimaging, biomarkers, and digital health technologies, in guiding personalized treatment and follow-up.
-Preventive strategies and lifestyle interventions (e.g., physical activity, diet, cognitive training) to promote brain health within healthcare and public health frameworks.
-Multidimensional care models that combine different and complementary areas to address the complex needs of medical patients.
By fostering collaboration among neuroscientists, clinicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and public health experts, this Special Issue aims to advance a comprehensive and clinically relevant understanding of these complex conditions.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Gabriella Martino
Prof. Dr. Carmelo M. Vicario
Dr. Chiara Spatola
Dr. Concetto Giorgianni
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- clinical psychology
- health psychology
- chronic diseases
- QoL
- osteoporosis
- asthma
- cardiovascular
- gastrointestinal
- IBD
- diabetes
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