Launched in 2002,Annals of General Psychiatryis one ofBioMed Central’s oldest journals. The journal considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychiatry, including neuroscience and psychological medicine. As the journal has grown, it has evolved to the point where some changes are required to maintain further growth, while guaranteeing a first-class service to authors. We are delighted, therefore, to introduce a new Editorial Board structure forAnnals of General Psychiatry, which will focus on the appointment of Section Editors to the journal.
在新的部分编辑中，有Heinz Grunze博士和Athanasios Douzenis博士，他们更详细地研究了自从他们各自的领域以来如何改变Annals of General Psychiatry, along with how their fields are represented in the journal.
躁郁症 - 发生了什么变化，我们从这里去哪里？
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Annals of General Psychiatry通过将单个部分编辑者分配给双相情感障碍和单极情感障碍，重视双相情感障碍研究的特殊重要性。近几十年来，医生对双相情感障碍的认识以及公众接受都大大提高了。但是，污名继续持续存在，需要应对。
Today, a greater choice of drugs allows for a more personalized treatment of bipolar disorder; but our knowledge about the genetic and epigenetic predisposition, and how genetic patterns may predict treatment response is still sparse. Furthermore, a bipolar diagnosis is no longer considered an exclusion criterion for psychotherapy but as a challenge in need of evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
但是，当我们处理复杂的多因素障碍时，我们不应该期望发现一种可以治愈双相情感障碍的灵丹妙药，但仍欢迎小而，重要的步骤，以更好地理解双相情感障碍的病理学和 - 心理学，以便为了更好地理解双相情感障碍的心理学，以便为了能够以此为目的。为个人患者量身定制的设计治疗方法。
Forensic psychiatry and ethics
Athanasios Douzenis
Forensic psychiatry as a psychiatric subspecialty is facing increasing challenges in recent years. Explaining violent and destructive behavior has always been a challenge but, in the recent years, there is a growing realization that forensic psychiatry is a prime area for developing and applying the biopsychosocial model of mental illness.
Annals of General Psychiatrywishes to be in the forefront of research applying the biopsychosocial model in the field. Through this, we hope to improve our assessments of dangerousness, but also improve rehabilitation of forensic offenders and address the association of serious mental illness with crime.
Ethics in medicine is an evolving field, and according to some is the only field within ethics as a branch of philosophy that faces new challenges. Psychiatry, since it deals with the whole person, is a branch of medicine where applied ethics are especially relevant in everyday practice.Annals of General Psychiatrywould welcome contributions that deal with ethical dilemmas as part of the clinical practice (consent, treatment in the community, the distinction between mental and physical illness regarding the capacity to deny treatment etc).
新的编辑结构
新的部分编辑器Annals of General Psychiatryare as follows:
Basic neuroscience
Dr Maurizio Popoli,University of Milan, Italy
Bipolar disorder
Heinz Grunze教授，英国纽卡斯尔大学
痴呆和心理学
Prof Michael Davidson,以色列Sheba医疗中心
Forensic psychiatry and ethics
Dr Athanasios Douzenis,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece
荟萃分析
Dr Aysegul Yildiz,土耳其DokuzEylül大学
强迫症
Dr Stefano Pallanti,意大利佛罗伦萨大学
Psychiatric Genetics
托马斯·舒尔兹教授，University of Göttingen, Germany
心理药理学
Siegfried Kasper教授，University of Vienna, Austria
Prof Michael Thase,University of Pennsylvania, USA
Psychotherapy
Prof Stephan Döring,Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Suicidality and self-destructive behaviour
Dr Xenia Gonda,Semmelweis University, Hungary
Treatment guidelines/Clinical Psychopathology
Prof Roumen Milev,Queen’s University, Canada
Unipolar depression
劳拉·曼德利（Laura Mandelli）博士University of Bologna, Italy
我们非常感谢他们的服务，我们期待将来与他们合作。在他们的帮助下，我们希望实现我们实现的梦想Annals of General Psychiatrythe open access journal of choice for psychiatrists around the world.
你可以阅读完整列表of the Editorial Board members on our website, as well as the most recent and cutting-edge research in the field.
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