''European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience'' is a

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published 8 times a year by

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History

The journal was established in 1868 by the German

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and

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Wilhelm Griesinger Wilhelm Griesinger (29 July 1817 – 26 October 1868) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart. Life and career He studied under Johann Lukas Schönlein at the University of Zurich and physiologist François Magendie in Paris ...

as the ''Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten'' (English: ''Archives of Psychiatry and Nerve Diseases''. From 1869, its

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were

Bernhard von Gudden Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (7 June 1824 – 13 June 1886) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve. Career In 1848, von Gudden earned his doctorate from the University of Halle and became an intern at the asylum in Siegbu ...

and

Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (23 March 1833, in Berlin – 27 January 1890, in Kreuzlingen) was a German psychiatrist from Berlin. He was the son of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800–1879) and Karoline Friederike Heine and the father of Alexa ...

. From 1984 to 1989, the journal was named ''European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences'', before obtaining its current title in 1990. In 1947, after a publication hiatus since 1944, the journal merged with the ''Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie'', which had been published independently since 1910. The merged journal continued the volume numbering of the latter journal. The main fields of interest of the journal include Psychiatry (psychopathology, clinical psychiatry, epidemiology), Neuroscience (neuropathology, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neurogenetics, molecular biology, animal models). European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience has consistently been placed as a Q1 since 1999 in Medicine (miscellaneous), Pharmacology (medical), and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2014

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of 3.525.

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External links

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