Editorial Committee

Founder of the Journal


Juan José López-Ibor, MD, PhD (1906-1991)          Website
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Salamanca, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Interests: psychiatry neurosciences; neurology psychology genetics; heredity philosophy

Editor-in-Chief


María I. López-Ibor, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Dept Psychiat, Univ Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Interests: psychiatry neurosciences; neurology philosophy psychology surgery

Editorial Board Members


FRANCISCO ARIAS-HORCAJADAS, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Jefe de Sección de Interconsulta y Enlace de Psiquiatría, Responsible programa de alcohol, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Interests: addictions; alcoholism; cannabis; gambling


Luis Beato-Fernández, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
School of Medicine, University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain; Head of the Psychiatry Department, General Hospital of Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain
Interests: eating disorders; child psychiatry; adolescent psychiatry; psychotherapy; systemic therapy


Marco O. Bertelli, MD          Email   |   Website
CREA (Research and Clinical Center), San Sebastiano Foundation, Misericordia di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Interests: psychopathological phenomenology and assessment; autism spectrum disorders in adults; disorders of intellectual development in adults; outcome measures in psychiatry; quality of life


Antonio Bruno, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Associate Professor of Psychiatry (MED/25) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Interests: anger and negative emotions (gender differences; anger and negative emotions in non-psychiatric subjects/liaison psychiatry); internet addiction and behavioral addictions;  psychopharmacology and augmentation strategies for partial and/or no-responders; nutraceutical applications in psychiatry (efficacy of nutraceutical supplementation on metabolic parameters in antipsychotics-treated patients cognitive outcomes of nutraceutical supplementation in schizophrenia);  neuromodulation techinique in psychiatry; sexual behavior

Alfredo Calcedo Barba          Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: forensic psychiatry


Beatriz Camarena, PhD          Email   |  Email   |   Website
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Departamento de Farmacogenética, Ciudad de México, México
Interests: genetic study of psychosis in patients with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder; pharmacogenetics of mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and antidepressants in patients with psychiatric disorders; genetic study of eating disorders; gene x environment interaction in psychiatric patients with suicide behavior


Miguel Casas, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Programa “SJD MIND Escoles”, Department of Psiquiatry, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Departament of Psiquiatry, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders; addiction disorders; dual diagnosis; conduct disorders; personality disorders

Antonio Drago , MD, PhD        Email   |   Website   |   Website   
Aalborg Universitetshospital, Klinisk Institut, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Psykiatrien, Denmark
Interests: I have interest in genetics and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric disorders and their treatments. The main topic of my investigation is the use of precise medicine in predicting pharmacological side effects such as weight gain and cardiac side effects.


SERDAR M. DURSUN,  MD, PhD, FRCPC          Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Interests: psychopharmacology; across the life cycle span, from the molecule to the community; advancing psychiatric therapeutics using novel technologies; artificial intelligence in psychiatry


Jose Guzman-Parra, PhD, ClinPsyD          Email   |   Website
Mental Health Department, Regional University Hospital of Málaga, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga y Plataforma en Nanomedicina–IBIMA Plataforma Bionand, Spain
Interests: affective and bipolar disorders; Ehealth; epidemiology; coercion in mental health services; cognition; suicidal behavior; stress, minority stress and mental health


Francisco Pablo Holgado-Tello, PhD          Email   |   Website
Department of Methodology of Behavioral Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
Interests: psychometrics; structural equation modelling; network psychometrics; psychological adjustment in children and adolescents; comorbidity


David Huertas, MD, PhD          Email   |  Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University Hospital of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain
Interests: human aggression; post traumatic stress disorder; alzheimer's disease; depression


Sergio Iglesias-Parro, PhD          Email   |   Website
Department of Psychology, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Interests: EEG; consciousness; schizophrenia; complexity; nonlinear analysis; measurement; psychometrics


Jianbo Lai, MD          Email   |   Website   |   Website   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Interests: Psychometrics, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and Gut-brain Regulation of Mood Disorders


Maria Luca, MD, PhD         Email   |   Website
Centre for Addiction, Adrano, Italy
Interests: psychiatry; psychology; psychosomatics; biological bases of mental disorders; liaison psychiatry; neurosciences


Jose Heliodoro Marco-Salvador, PhD          Email   |   Website   |   Website
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Interests: meaning centered psychotherapy; cognitive behavioraltherapy; dialectical behavioral therapy; psychopathology of eating disorders


Caleb Wayne Lack, PhD         Email   |   Website
Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA
Interests: obsessive compulsive disorder; chronic tic disorders; cognitive behavioral therapy; technology in mental health; posttraumatic stress disorder


Shaojia Lu, MD         Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Interests: major depressive disorder; anhedonia; childhood trauma; neuroimaging; neuroinflammation


Marianna Mazza, MD, PhD         Email   |   Website
Department of Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; Department of Psychiatry, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Interests: mood disorders; peripartum; eating disorders; sleep disorders; gender psychiatry; psychosis


Ángel Luis Montejo, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Nursing School, University of Salamanca, Av., Donantes de Sangre SN, Salamanca, Spain; Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL), Paseo de San Vicente SN, Salamanca, Spain
Interests: clinical psychiatry; mental health; pharmacology; psychiatry; lecturing; psychopathology; psychotherapeutic processes; mental illness; psychopharmacology; clinical trials


Javier Navarro-Zaragoza, PhD          Email   |  Website
Department of Pharmacology, University of Murcia, Spain
Interests: addiction; stress; neurodegeneration; adverse; drug events


Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero, PhD          Email   |  Website
Universidad de La Rioja
Interests: Mental Health Promotion in Young People and prevention of psychological problems, (e.g., suicidal behavior and psychosis); Testing new psychometric and psycho(pato)logical models; Empirically supported interventions in psychology


Blanca Reneses Prieto, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website   |   Website
“Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria” (IdiSSC), Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain; The Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Interests: depression; deep brain stimulation; psychiatric epidemiology; mental health policies; stigma and mental health


Marcos Rios-Lago, PhD          Email   |   Website   |   Website
Department Basic Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain; Brain Damage Unit, Hospital Beata Maria Ana, Madrid, Spain
Interests: neuropsychology: attention, executive functions, speed of processing; neuropsychological assessment; neuropsychological rehabilitation; neuroimaging; functional magnetic resonance imaging; obsessive compulsive disorder; brain injury; cognitive neuroscience


Michele Roccella, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website   |   Website
Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders (autism spectrum, intellectual disability, ADHD); neuropsychological disorders; developmental depression; gender dysphoria; anabolic addictions; addictions not linked to the use of substances (addictions to smartphones, internet, gambling, shopping, etc); sexual abuse; psychological abuse; behavioral disorders (obsessive compulsive disorder, etc.); emotional disorders (anxiety disorders in developmental age, etc.)


Adolf Tobeña, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra Campus, Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: neurobiology of fearfulness-anxiety; psychobiology of intergroup conflicts; animal models of mental disorders


Gerardo Villarreal, MD        Email   |   Email   |   Website   |   Website
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Interests: psychopharmacological treatment of PTSD; neurobiology of PTSD; cognitive behavioral therapy; sense of agency, mind wandering and consciousness


Jian Wang, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Department of Human Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Interests: stroke; intracerebral hemorrhage; traumatic brain injury; neuroprotection; neuroinflammation; immunity; metabolism


Zhe Wang, PhD          Email   |   Website
Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Interests: Alzheimer’s diseases; Parkinson’s disease; atherosclerosis; cell biology; biochemistry


Bin Zhang, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Tianjin Anding Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
Interests: affective disorders; suicidal behavior; neuromodulation; adolescent psychiatry; functional MRI


Xiaobin Zhang, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, Suzhou Guangji Hospital, Affiliated Guangji Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Interests: studies on the pathophysiological mechanisms of schizophrenia, encompassing oxidative stress dynamics and aspects of cellular immune factors, have been crucial in advancing our understanding of the disorder; molecular genetic studies on the side effects of antipsychotic drugs, including tardive dyskinesia and antipsychotic-induced obesity, offer valuable insights into the genetic predispositions underlying these adverse effects; multi-dimensional studies on the clinical features of depression, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), provide comprehensive assessments of the disorder's neurobiological underpinnings


Wei Zheng, MD, PhD          Email   |   Website
Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Interests: depression; bipolar disorder; schizophrenia; meta-analysis; systematic review; ECT; TMS; tDCS; tACS