Neuroimaging in Precision Psychiatry
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Omics/Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional MRI; task-based activation; functional connectivity; computational modeling; computational psychiatry; posttraumatic stress disorder
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Dear Colleagues,
Mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety affect over one billion people globally, yet diagnosis and treatment remain largely symptom-based, with trial-and-error prescribing leading to delayed recovery and high relapse rates. A major barrier to progress is the lack of objective biomarkers that reflect underlying brain pathophysiology. Neuroimaging—particularly functional and structural MRI, EEG, MEG, and PET—enables the study of the neural circuits, neural structure, activation and connectivity patterns, and neurochemical systems that drive individual differences in psychiatric symptoms and treatment response. Coupled with machine learning and computational modeling, these tools are enabling a shift from categorical diagnoses to biologically informed, patient-specific profiles.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to neuroimaging in precision psychiatry. We consider original articles, reviews, and other relevant contributions addressing the development, validation, and clinical translation of imaging biomarkers that enable individualized prediction, diagnosis, or treatment planning in psychiatric disorders.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applications of neuroimaging in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders;
- Multimodal brain data integration in psychiatry;
- Application of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning models) in psychiatric neuroimaging;
- Neuroimaging-guided neuromodulation;
- Integration of neuroimaging with genomics and digital phenotyping;
- Longitudinal neuroimaging to track illness trajectory.
Dr. Jony Sheynin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- precision psychiatry
- neuroimaging
- computational psychiatry
- computational modeling
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- neuromodulation
- functional connectivity
- neural activation
- multimodal imaging
- digital phenotyping
- clinical translation
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