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Frontiers in Psychiatry publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research across a wide spectrum of translational, basic and clinical research. Field Chief Editor Stefan Borgwardt at the University of Basel is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide.

The journal's mission is to use translational approaches to improve therapeutic options for mental illness and consequently to improve patient treatment outcomes.

We are launching a new section of the journal today that focuses on autism and is very much in line with many of the themes that will be discussed during the meeting today. We are excited to be working with Professor Antonio Persico on this new endeavour and are looking forward to highlighting this important are of research in his new section, Autism.

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Editor and Journal Manager attending this meeting

Antonio Persico, Specialty Chief Editor, Autism – Frontiers in Psychiatry

Antonio Persico specialized in Psychiatry at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy) in 1990 and then worked for a number of years mainly on the genetics of drug addiction and panic disorder. In 1995, he started at the University “Campus Bio-Medico” (UCBM, Rome, Italy), exploring the role of serotonin in neurodevelopment and the genetics of autism. Since then, autism and neurodevelopmental disorders have been the primary focus of his research interests. In 2010 he started the clinical Unit of Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at UCBM, then becoming in 2015 Full Professor of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the University of Messina (Italy). Here he directs the Interdepartmental Program “Autism 0-90” at the “G. Martino” University Hospital. His overarching target is to link clinical phenomena to their genetic, epigenetic and neurobiological underpinnings in neurodevelopmental disorders. His specific research interests are thus primarily translational: clustering autistic patients in biologically meaningful ways, identifying biomarkers for early diagnosis and to predict response/non-response to specific forms of therapies, developing novel evidence-based pharmacological, behavioral and occupational interventions. His ultimate goal is to improve as much as possible the long-term trajectory and the quality of life of autistic individuals and their families at all ages.

Kelly Woods, Journal Manager – Frontiers in Psychiatry

Kelly Woods graduated from Brunel University in London, United Kingdom and worked for a couple of years in labs at the Royal Veterinary College and King’s College London before transitioning into the scientific publishing industry first at the Royal Society and then at Frontiers. She worked on a number of titles at Frontiers before becoming the Journal Manager for Frontiers in Psychiatry in 2019.

Email Kelly to discuss your research: kelly.woods@frontiersin.org

Frontiers highlighted Research Topics

Autism and Schizophrenia: Neurodevelopmental, Transdiagnostic, Dimensional Constructs of Reasoning

Led by Drs. Bodil Aggernæs, Mandy Johnstone, Sarah Lippe and Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc

Psychiatric Comorbidities in Children and Adolescents with ASD and in Typically Developing Children

Led by Drs. Marija Raleva, Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic, Vaska Slavcheva Stancheva-Popkostadinova and Luigi Mazzone

Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Bench to Bedside

Led by Drs. Rebecca Ann Muhle, Ellen J. Hoffman, Hanna E Stevens, Devanand Sadanand Manoli and Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele

Autism Spectrum Disorders: Developmental Trajectories, Neurobiological Basis, Treatment Update

18 articles | Led by Drs. Roberto Canitano, Yuri Bozzi, and Dirk Dhossche | eBook available

Why launch a Frontiers Research Topic?

Frontiers’ Research Topics are peer-reviewed article collections around cutting-edge research themes. Defined, managed and led by renowned researchers, they unite the world’s leading experts around the hottest topics, stimulating collaboration and accelerating science. Managed and disseminated on Frontiers’ Open Science platform, these collections are free to access and highly visible, increasing readership and citations for your research.

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• Average time from submission to final decision: 90 day