''Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (PCN)'' is a bimonthly

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covering

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

and

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. It was established in 1933 as ''Folia Psychiatrica Et Neurologica Japonica'', and was renamed ''The Japanese Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology'' in 1986. It obtained its current name in 1995. It is published by

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on behalf of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology(JSPN), of which it is the official journal. The editors-in-chief are Shigenobu Kanba ( Kyushu University) and Tadafumi Kato (

RIKEN Brain Science Institute RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN-BSI) was established in 1997 as part of RIKEN, focusing on neuroscience research located in Wakō city, Saitama Prefecture in the greater Tokyo area, Japan. In 2018 RIKEN-BSI has been reorganized as RIKEN Ce ...

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). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 12.145, ranking it 14th out of 155 journals in the category "Psychiatry" and 16th out of 274 in the category "Neurosciences". PCN's mission is to become an international academic hub of psychiatry as well as a leading journal in the East disseminating prominent research which are valuable to the psychiatry field. PCN is published 12 online issues a year by JSPN in all fields of psychiatry and related neurosciences in the following categories: Review Articles, Regular Articles, and Letters to the Editor.

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