Separating obsessive-compulsive disorder from the self
Article published: 7 September 2017
Addressing the importance of sleep
Article published: 2 May 2017
Seeking help in times of economic hardship
Article published: 3 March 2017
Call for papers: Benefits and risks of cannabis and its compounds. Deadline extended!
BMC Psychiatry is delighted to announce the launch a thematic series aiming to explore the benefits and risks of cannabis and its compounds on mental health and psychiatric disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder, psychotic disorders, substance abuse disorders and others.
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Featured article: Association between DNA methylation of oxytocin receptors and sociality and emotion
Oxytocin and its receptors play critical roles in regulating social behavior, social cognition, and emotions. The present meta-analysis found that increased oxytocin receptor gene methylation showed patterns of decreased sociality and emotional functioning while decreased methylation showed a pattern of impaired mood.
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BMC Psychiatry is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
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- Samuel Harris, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Cathy Barr, The Toronto Western Hospital
- Ruth Benca, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Linda Davies, University of Manchester
- Secondo Fassino, Turin University
- Seena Fazel, University of Oxford
- Morten Hesse, University of Aarhus
- Sharon Lawn, Flinders University
- Ute Lewitzka, Technische Universität Dresden
- Joanne Ryan, Monash University
- Florian Seemüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Wei Wang, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Joanne Ryan, Section Editor
Dr. Joanne Ryan is a genetic epidemiologist who leads the Dementia Research Program in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She joined the editorial board of BMC Psychiatry as an Associate Editor in 2014 and became a Section Editor in 2016
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2017 Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
2.419 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.148 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.211 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.346 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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