Molecular Advances in Mental Health and Disorders
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 2398
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Interests: genetics of mental health disorders; functional screens; multiomics; lipidomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, the molecular basis of mental health disorders is still incompletely understood. Yet, it is this lack of an in-depth understanding of the pathophysiology underlying these disorders that presents one of the most important hurdles to new therapeutic and more precise treatment strategies. At the same time, recent years have seen great technological advances in many different pieces of the molecular puzzles in the way that molecular questions can be addressed.
This special issue entitled “Molecular Advances in Mental Health Disorders” seeks to shed light on novel molecular aspects of mental health disorders ranging from autism spectrum disorder to post traumatic stress disorder and from depression phenotypes to addictive disorders. It also includes mental health phenotypes in somatic disorders. Molecular advances can pertain to basic science research just as much as to clinical aspects. This special issue invites works on technological and methodological advances in the analysis of molecular processes in the context of mental health disorders. Further, “molecular advances” can describe the decryption of molecular processes underlying the pathophysiology of mental health disorders using model systems, but also the advances based on strategies rooted in molecular epidemiology and -omics in clinical and population-based cohorts.
Dr. Eva Christina Schulte
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular studies
- mental health disorders
- model systems
- molecular epidemiology
- omics
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