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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Volume 13, No 5
May 2008
ISSN: 1359-4184
EISSN: 1476-5578
2006 impact factor 11.804*
2/95 Psychiatry
7/199 Neuroscience
10/262 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Editor:
Julio Licinio, MD
* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson 2007.
FEATURED ARTICLES
PERSPECTIVE
Psychosis and microbial agentsORIGINAL ARTICLE
Proinflammatory signaling in the BBBORIGINAL ARTICLE
A high-density SNP linkage scan with 142 combined subtype ADHD sib pairORIGINAL ARTICLE
Linkage analysis in extended pedigreesNEWS
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
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- PML targeting eradicates quiescent leukaemia-initiating cells Source: Nature