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Sleep problems and psychopathology

Guest Editors:
Hsi-Chung Chen: National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues: Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil


BMC Psychiatry welcomed submissions for the Collection on 'Sleep problems in people with psychiatric disorders'.

Despite the numerous publications touching upon the topic, the relationship between sleep-related issues and psychiatric disorders is as relevant as ever. Recent studies have focused on discovering new knowledge that discusses the treatment and diagnosis of sleep disorders, and their relationship with various psychiatric disorders. This collection was not limited to the mentioned studies, as it aimed to publish research covering a wider scope of topics touching upon sleep disorders and psychopathology. BMC Psychiatry invited submissions on the mentioned topic in the form of research articles, reviews, case reports, and meta-analyses, among others.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Hsi-Chung Chen: National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dr. Hsi-Chung Chen is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University. He has been interested in studies of sleep medicine, from bench-to-bedside to the community. He is also devoted to the establishment and translation of several psychometric instruments. In addition to classical epidemiological research, he has conducted several studies by analyzing continuous physiological signals with power spectral approach. He is also experienced in collecting and analyzing information from polysomnography which will assist in identifying promising neurophysiological markers of various psychiatric disorders that often comorbid with sleep disorders.

Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues: Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues is a biologist with a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is an Associate Professor at the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. Her current research interests are in assessing the relationship between sleep/ circadian rhythm and mental health in epidemiological studies, using sleep objective measures, genetics, and other biological markers. 


About the collection

BMC Psychiatry welcomed submissions to our Collection on sleep problems in people with psychiatric disorders.

Despite the numerous publications touching upon the topic, the relationship between sleep-related issues and psychiatric disorders is as relevant as ever. Recent studies have focused on discovering new knowledge that discusses the treatment and diagnosis of sleep disorders, and their relationship with various psychiatric disorders. This collection was not limited to the mentioned studies, as it aimed to publish research covering a wider scope of topics touching upon sleep disorders and psychopathology. BMC Psychiatry invited submissions on the mentioned topic in the form of research articles, reviews, case reports, and meta-analyses, among others.

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  3. There is a complex relationship between social anxiety and sleep quality. However, network analysis studies of associations between social anxiety and sleep quality are lacking, particularly among patients wit...

    Authors: Chunyan He, Yang He, Tianqi Yang, Chao Wu, Yawei Lin, Jiaran Yan, Wei Chang, Fenxia Chang, Yameng Wang, Shengjun Wu and Baohua Cao
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:887
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Regularizing bedtime and out-of-bed times is a core component of behavioral treatments for sleep disturbances common among patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although improvements in subjectiv...

    Authors: Jiyoung Song, Aaron J. Fisher and Steven H. Woodward
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:869
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Studies on sleep problems among caregivers of psychiatric patients, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, are limited. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of insomnia symptoms (insomnia hereaf...

    Authors: Pan Chen, Yan-Jie Zhao, Feng-Rong An, Xiao-Hong Li, Mei Ieng Lam, Ka-In Lok, Yue-Ying Wang, Jia-Xin Li, Zhaohui Su, Teris Cheung, Gabor S. Ungvari, Chee H. Ng, Qinge Zhang and Yu-Tao Xiang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:837
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  6. Transitions from middle adolescence into merging adulthood, a life stage between age 15–25, has a high prevalence of sleep problems. Mindfulness is a trait defined as being attentive to the present moment whic...

    Authors: Huaiyuan Zhou, Ziqing Zhu, Xiangang Feng and Ruibin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:626
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. While expansive research has accumulated concerning the association between traditional, face-to-face peer victimization and psychosis, a paucity of empirical research has been undertaken so far to investigate...

    Authors: Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Manel Stambouli, Diana Malaeb, Nour Farah, Majda Cheour, Sahar Obeid and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:524
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  8. Nurses in tertiary hospitals are at high risk for depression. Understanding sleep quality and perceived stress may contribute to nurses’ mental health and health-related nursing productivity. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Yi Zhou, Sha Wang, Min Liu, Gang Gan, Ning Qin, Xiaofei Luo, Chun Zhang, Jianfei Xie, Kewei Wang and Andy SK Cheng
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2023 23:416
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Sleep Problems and Psychopathology" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.