''Biological Psychiatry'' is a biweekly,

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psychiatric 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 psyc ...

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and

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, published by

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since 1985 on behalf of the

Society of Biological Psychiatry A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soc ...

, of which it is the official journal. The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the

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and treatment of major

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. A yearly supplement is published which contains the abstracts from the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

History

The journal was established in 1959 as ''Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry''. It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1 and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding

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was

Joseph Wortis Joseph Wortis (October 2, 1906 – February 22, 1995) was an American psychiatrist, longtime editor of the scientific journal '' Biological Psychiatry'', and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Early life Joseph Wor ...

, who edited the journal until 1992. The current editor is

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(

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). In 2016, a spin-off journal was established: ''Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging'' (). In 2021, a second spin-off journal was established: ''Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science'' ().

Abstracting and indexing

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

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 12.095.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: *

, 1959–1992 *

Wagner H. Bridger Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

, 1992–1997 * Richard C. Josiassen, 1997 *

Dennis S. Charney Dennis S. Charney is an American biological psychiatrist and researcher, with expertise in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He is the author of ''Neurobiology of Mental Illness'', ''The Physician's Guide to Depress ...

, 1998–2006 *

, 2006–present

References

External links

*
Society of Biological Psychiatry website
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History

Abstracting and indexing

Editors-in-chief

See also

References

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