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Section Board for 'Mental Health' (104)
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Interests: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND); major depressive disorder in persons living with HIV; aging and HIV infection; global epidemiology of HAND; psychoneuroimmunology; psycho-oncology; chronic pain
Interests: traumatic experience; covid-19 and mental health; psychological resilience and coping; aging

2. Department of Neurosciences “Rita Levi Montalcini”, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 15, 10126 Turin, Italy
Interests: clinical psychiatry; clinical psycoharmacology and psychotherapy (in adults) with particular concern in mood disorders; OCD and schizophrenia
Interests: alcoholism; psychotherapy; behavioral interventions
Interests: behavioral addictions; animal models; dopamine; behavioral (epi)genetics; ADHD

Interests: early intervention for eating disorders
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Interests: ADHD; rett syndrome; giftedness; intelligence; cognition; cognitive rehabilitation; cognitive empowerment; peace; psychometry; new technologies

Interests: workplace bullying; mobbing; workaholism; work addiction; work engagement; work-related stress; psychosocial factors at work; counterproductive work behavior
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Interests: health psychology; sleep apnea; sleep disorders; social environment; circadian rhythms; polysomnography; sleep medicine

Interests: transcranial magnetic stimulation; EEG; depression; anxiety; stress; medical education; plasticity; aging; exercise; wellness

Interests: smoking cessation; addiction; cognitive-behavioral treatment; prevention; alcohol; marijuana; cocaine; pathological gambling

Interests: child and adolescent mental health; pandemic measures; surveillance; psychotherapy; telemedicine; depression; non-invasive brain stimulation; clinical neurophysiology

Interests: substance use; HIV prevention

Interests: brain health; brain aging; dementia; neurodegenerative disorders
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Interests: arts-based methods; qualitative inquiry; experience-based co-design; mental health; knowledge translation

Interests: youth mental health; language and literacy difficulties; reading, dyslexia; self-injury; HIV/AIDS; emotion; emotion regulation; coping

Interests: tobacco dependence; cessation and relapse; e-cigarettes; behavioral and self-help interventions for smoking

Interests: psychopharmacology; augmentation strategies; treatment-resistant disorders; schizophrenia; nutraceutical applications in psychiatry; sexual behavior; psychosomatics; negative emotions; anger
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2. Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions. Parc de Salut Mar, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: anxiety; Ehlers Danlos; functional somatic disorders; stress; vagal; EMDR; neurosis
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Interests: health psychology; physical activity/exercise; health coaching; behavioural counselling; behavioural determinants; behaviour change; sleep psychology
Interests: social and evolutionary psychology

Interests: mood disorders; major depressive disorder; suicide; personality disorders; psychotherapy; meta-analysis; statistics tools

Interests: major depression; antidepressants; addiction; Alzheimer’s disease; biomarkers; animal models; gene expression; psychopharmacology
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Interests: mood disorders; PTSD; post-traumatic stress spectrum; anxiety; complicated grief

Interests: adjustment disorder; religion/spirituality and mental health; self harm and suicide

2. Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3. Co-Director, Collaborative Specialization in Addiction Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: tobacco control; nicotine; public health; harm reduction; mental health; health promotion; addiction research
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Interests: neuropsychology; movement planning; attention; distractor interference; spatial working memory

Interests: sleep disorders; polysomnography; sleep apnea; sleep medicine; EEG signal processing; circadian rhythms; insomnia; sleep stage analysis
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2. Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
Interests: psychosis; neuropsychopharmacology; brain imaging; cannabinoids; cognitive neuroscience; prevention and early intervention in mental health
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Interests: spatial cognition, mental imagery and motor simulation in children and adults with typical and atypical development; neuropsychology of anxiety and hypervigilance to threat
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Interests: occupational health surveillance; workplace health promotion; occupational exposure; work-related stress; psychosocial factors at work; prevention of work-related diseases; occupational toxicology

Interests: mental health; public health; greenspace and bluespace exposure; qualitative research; randomised controlled trials; spatial cohort analyses

Interests: psychopathology; clinical pharmacology; mood disorders; anxiety disorders; autism spectrum disorder; trauma and stress related disorders; catatonia

Interests: mental health & wellbeing; goal motivation; prospective cognition; affect

Interests: reading; bilingualism; mental lexicon; psycholinguistics; applied linguistics

Interests: psychoacoustics; noise effects; noise sensitivity; psychophysical scaling
Interests: psychosomatics; immigrant and refugee mental health; psychooncology and psychosocial aspects of transplantation; psychotherapy research
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Interests: psychometrics; mental health; methodology; translations of self-report measures; crosscultural mental health; psychotherapies; routine outcome/change measures; practice based evidence; psychosocial interventions; group therapies; family/systemic therapies
Interests: epidemiology of chronic pain; comorbidity; health related quality of life; mental health

Interests: neuropsychopharmacology; mental health; addiction; suicide; stigma; health disparity; minority health

Interests: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; infancy; sensory stimulation; virtual reality; typical and atypical development

Interests: psychosis; suicidal behavior; mental health; risk factors; schizotypy; prevention; psychometric; assessment; validation
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Interests: mental health; adolescents health; health promotion
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Interests: addiction treatment; psychiatry; dual diagnosis; opiate agonists

Interests: pain; mental health; posttraumatic stress; trauma; injury

2. Autism Center, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Interests: autism spectrum disorder; vaccine hesitancy; parent perceptions of autism; autism onset; developmental regression

Interests: mental health services; psychosocial interventions; co-morbidity; workforce
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Interests: cyberpsychology; cyberbullying; sexting; online child grooming; Internet addiction; dating violence; partner violence; child-to-parent violence; family abuse
Interests: chronic pain; somatization disorder; work & health; intervention studies on prevention and early treatment of psychological and psychosomatic diseases; clinical (and molecular) stress research

Interests: sociology; social psychology; health inequality; occupational health; employee well-being; psychosocial factors influencing health; work stress models and theories; stress processing; stress vulnerability and stress physiology
Interests: smartphone addiction; psychological well-being; partner violence; social support; multilevel analysis; structural equation modeling; growth models
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Interests: medical aspects of depressive disorder; psychiatric aspects of medical disorders; functional near infrared spectroscopy; meta-analysis; suicide and deliberate self-harm
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Interests: bullying; school violence; adolescent mental health
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2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: pain; neuromodulation; cognitive modulation; cognitive neuroscience; EEG; fMRI
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Interests: health services research in psychiatry; mental health stigma; social psychiatry; compulsory measures and coercion in psychiatry; prevention and management of aggression; early detection and prevention of mental disorders; schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Interests: suicide; mood disorders; psychological assessment; food addiction; adult ADHD
Interests: psychosis; schizophrenia; antipsychotics; psychopharmacology; Genomics Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Interests: neuroepidemiology; dementia; psychosocial intervention; Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychology

Interests: psychological anthropology; medical anthropology; cross-cultural psychiatry; global mental health; health systems research; stigma; trauma and humanitarian emergencies; Nepal; Liberia; Ethiopia

Interests: lived experience perspectives
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Interests: mental health; wellbeing; end of life care; dementia
Interests: medical education; psychological assessment; medical > psychology; psycho-oncology; clinical psychotherapy; clinical > psychology
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Interests: suicide; murder; fear of death; theories of personality

Interests: health psychology; theories/models; return to work; motivation; multiple health behavior change

Interests: occupational burnout; work stress; violence; mobbing; professional effectiveness
Interests: language psychology; cognitive neuroscience

Interests: social psychology; health promotion; jealousy; evolutionary psychology; psychological capital; emotions; social comparison; maternal health

Interests: compassion focused therapy; compassion; self-compassion; contemplative approaches; evolutionary psychology; shame; self-criticism; emotion regulation; emotional memory; traumatic memory; well-being
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Interests: minority mental health; racial discrimination (prejudice and race-based discrimination); health policy (the development of policies for the collection of data, the tracking process in contact tracing and the use of apps to follow persons); violent deaths (suicide and suicide prevention and homicide shootings of Black men); psychological dimensions (shooting of Black men by police, the stop frisk and arrest process)

Interests: obsessive-compulsive disorder; anxiety disorders; misophonia; disgust in psychopathology

Interests: aging; dementia; mild cognitive impairment; tDCS; autobiographical memory; recognition
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Interests: schizophrenia; depression; epidemiology; meta-analysis; statistics

Interests: chronic pain; pain management; pediatric pain; health psychology; m-health

Interests: compassion; mindfulness; physical education; burnout syndrome; psychometry; mental health; wellbeing and health-related behaviours

Interests: psychometrics; psychological assessment; test development; item analysis and entrepreneurial personality assessment

Interests: gambling disorder; gaming disorder; internet-related disorders; behavioral addictions; personality
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2. Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Gloucester, VA 23061, USA
Interests: social and personality psychology with a cross-cultural emphasis; naturally occurring social interaction; within-person variability; climate changed induced distress; vegetarianism as a social identity

Interests: traumatic stress; resilience; mental health epidemiology; perinatal mental health
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Interests: stigma; discrimination and health; obesity stigma; alcohol and gambling marketing and harms; body image; psychological and social aspects of endometriosis; public health; addiction
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Interests: marital therapy; the relationship between marital and child problems; the etiology and treatment of spouse abuse; the alcohol abuse/partner abuse link

Interests: social sciences; social psychology; criminology; occupational wellbeing; social media; social robots
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Interests: seasonal affective disorder; light; mood disorders; chronobiology; blood

Interests: community organizing; substance misuse prevention; tobacco control; youth empowerment; psychological sense of community

Interests: social identity; well-being; disasters; psychosocial factors; stress exposure; group dynamics; crowds; collective action

Interests: neurosciences; neurological diseases; protein phosphorylation; nuclear envelope biology; nuclear envelopathies; nuclear functions
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Interests: gender; discourse; postfeminism; neoliberalism; psychology; identity; sexuality; health promotion; discourse; digital health; digital media; body image
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Interests: childhood adversity and adult mental health; long-term sequelae of parental divorce; family relationships and mental health; relationships of alcohol consumption with anxiety, depression and cognitive function; models of vulnerability and resilience; epidemiology of mental disorders over the life course; mental health literacy; jobs and mental health; eating disorder behaviours; gambling and problem gambling

Interests: sexual psychology; sexual behavior; sexual response; sexual dysfunction in men and women; psychological distress; sexual health; sexual psychophysiology; cross-cultural perspectives
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Special Issue in Sexes: Sexual Health Challenges in Emerging Nations, Populations, and Minorities: Research, Applications, and Recommendations
Special Issue in Sexes: Exclusive Papers Collection of the Editorial Board of Sexes

Interests: biopsychosocial care; ethics; mental health; philosophy; psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation; social determinants

Interests: anxiety disorders; amygdala; anxiety; prenatal stress; brain plasticity; nanoparticulate inhalation; brain health

Interests: developmental psychology; psychopathology; peer bullying; sibling bullying; cyberbullying; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); trauma and war; refugees; premature birth

Interests: transdiagnostic; anxiety; fear; phobia; panic attack; panic disorder; disgust sensitivity; stress

Interests: application of genetic techniques in psychiatry; health in prison; bio-psycho-social aspects of suicidal behaviours; risk-taking behaviours; adolescents; depressive disorders; brief psychodynamic psychotherapy

Interests: comorbidity of mental and physical illness; mental health programmes; depression; work against stigma; education in psychiatry

Interests: GPCRs; neurodegenerative disorders; psychiatric disorders; antipsychotics; mood stabilizers; antidepressants
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Interests: restorative environments and well-being; biodiversity protection; urban environmental quality; place attachment; terrorism and media
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Interests: research methods; statistics; cancer; hiv/aids; health disparities
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Interests: sexual satisfaction; sexual functioning; sexual attitudes; sexual psychophysiology; orgasm; sexual diversity; sexual health
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Interests: epidemiology of common mental disorders; systematic reviews and meta-analyses in mental health; social psychiatry; health services research

Interests: emergency psychiatry; migration and mental health; stress; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychometrics

Interests: health promotion; health literacy; behavior change; capacity building
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2. Department of Sociology, SUNY Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA
Interests: social psychology; sociological theory; social medicine and research methods

2. School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Interests: social psychology; psychological wellbeing; social cognition; affective science; social emotions; morality; pro-social behavior; social norms

Interests: data mining; behavior analysis; computational cyber psychology; database
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Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Suicide and Self-Harm Behavior on the Internet