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Call for papers - Sleep Problems and Psychopathology

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

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 10 October 2023


BMC Psychiatry invites 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 is not limited to the mentioned studies, as it aims to publish research covering a wider scope of topics touching upon sleep disorders and psychopathology. BMC Psychiatry invites 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 is calling for 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 is not limited to the mentioned studies, as it aims to publish research covering a wider scope of topics touching upon sleep disorders and psychopathology. BMC Psychiatry invites submissions on the mentioned topic in the form of research articles, reviews, case reports, and meta-analyses, among others.

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There are currently no articles in this collection.

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.