Welcome to Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry publishes definitive, high-impact work that elucidates key issues in psychiatry and related fields. The emphasis is on bringing together in one journal the best pre-clinical and clinical research, including research at the cellular, molecular, integrative, epidemiological, translational, clinical, imaging, psychopharmacology, and treatment outcome levels. Cutting-edge articles are highly cited in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, biochemistry & molecular biology.
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Molecular Psychiatry now offers authors the option to publish their articles with immediate open access upon publication. Open access articles will also be deposited on PubMed Central at the time of publication and will be freely available immediately. Find out more from the press release or our FAQs page.
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About the cover
Free online issue
Volume 14, No 12
December 2009
ISSN: 1359-4184
EISSN: 1476-5578
Impact Factor 12.537*
2/101 Psychiatry
8/219 Neuroscience
9/276 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Editor:
Julio Licinio, MD
*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)
FEATURED ARTICLES
FEATURE REVIEW
Evolution-informed frameworkORIGINAL ARTICLE
Sequence variations of 7 genes: pharmacogenetics of depression FREEORIGINAL ARTICLE
Effect of glucocorticoids on neuronal migrationORIGINAL ARTICLE
Smoking and suicide-related outcomes in the NCS panelNEWS
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There are, to date, no objective clinical laboratory blood tests for mood disorders. Current reliance on patients self-reporting symptom severity, and on the impressions of clinicians, is a rate limiting step in effective treatment and new drug development. These studies suggest blood biomarkers may offer an unexpectedly informative window into brain functioning and disease state.
One in eight US adults smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and most of the risk of habitual heavy smoking (nicotine addiction) is genetic. This paper studied DNA samples from 14,000 people and showed the most important genetic predictors of nicotine addiction are variants in genes that produce the brain proteins to which nicotine binds.
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Research and Reviews
Latest research highlights and reviews from the NPG family of journals
- Non-muscle myosin II takes centre stage in cell adhesion and migration Source: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO2 concentrations in the ocean Source: Nature
- Monitoring α4β7 integrin expression on circulating CD4+ T cells as a surrogate marker for tracking intestinal CD4+ T-cell loss in SIV infection - this content is FREE Source: Mucosal Immunology
