Remission and Recovery in Mental Health
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 6008
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychiatry; autism spectrum disorder; neurodevelopmental disorders; social cognition; psychosis; complementary therapies
Interests: bipolar disorder; neuroplasticity; depression; addiction
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Dear Colleagues,
Evidence has shown that over their life course, around 5% of adults suffer from a serious mental disorder, such as schizophrenia or affective disorders. Patients with mental health problems frequently fluctuate between periods of full-blown symptomatology and periods of remission. Nevertheless, only a fraction of these patients reaches so-called “recovery”, a sustained period marked by the absence of clinically meaningful symptomatology, in which patients can progress live autonomously and participate in everyday activities, routines, employment, and education.
The Special Issue “Remission and Recovery in Mental Health” aims to encourage debate around the concepts of remission and recovery and to help in improving the quality and personalization of care in psychiatry. Authors are invited to submit cutting-edge original research, short reports, systematic and non-systematic reviews, as well as commentaries, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics: factors associated with symptoms remission and recovery in major mental disorders; rehabilitation programs to foster full functional recovery; efficacy of pharmacological and psychosocial treatments to prevent the relapse of psychiatric symptoms; unmet needs and patients’ preferences. First-person accounts from people who suffer or have suffered from a mental disorder are also of great interest.
Dr. Laura Fusar-Poli
Dr. Carmen Concerto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- major depression
- schizophrenia
- outcome
- functioning
- recovery
- remission
- rehabilitation
- discontinuation
- unmet needs
- quality of life