Mechanisms and Interventions for Neurological and Psychological Disorders 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

Neurological conditions affect the brain, the spinal cord, and nerves found throughout the body. There are over 600 neurological conditions that affect humans, including dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, and headache (see keywords for other neurological disorder examples). Abnormalities in the brain, spinal cord, or nerves, including structural, biochemical, or electrical, lead to symptoms of a neurological condition. Some symptoms include muscle weakness, loss of coordination and sensation, seizures, paralysis, etc. The causes of neurological disorders vary but can be due to infections, tumors, environmental, lifestyle, genetic, congenital, and trauma.

There is also a vast range of psychological disorders, which include bipolar, eating disorders, paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia, social anxiety disorder, phobias, agoraphobia, panic attacks, and neuropsychiatric disorders. These disorders can be genetic, biological, viral, and chemical, or be a result of chemical imbalances in the brain, traumatic brain injury, a history of abuse, stress, cancer, alcohol, or recreational substance abuse.

This Special Issue aims to collect contributions related to mechanisms of disease including at the molecular, cellular, genetic, biochemical, and immunological levels. We also seek articles on interventions used to manage these disorders.

You are invited to submit original experimental research papers, theoretical papers, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, communications, reports, and notes. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Majid Davidson
Prof. Dr. Vasso Apostolopoulos
Prof. Dr. Tissa Wijeratne
Guest Editors

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