The Genomics of Psychiatric Illnesses: Moving Forward

Physical illnesses underlying psychiatric symptoms.

The authors reviewed 21 studies dealing with the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed physical illnesses in the psychiatric patient population. These studies performed by different authors in variable clinical settings with diverse methodology in different locations over a period of 45 years yielded a close concordance. Approximately half of the patients (50.1%) suffered from significant physical ...

Functional Neurosurgery in Psychiatric Illnesses

Advances in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses have made it possible to use neuropharmacological drugs, in many instances, thus diminishing the need for somatic type of invasive treatment. However there still remains a core of patients with psychiatric illnesses for whom continued attempts at treatment with psychotherapy and drugs have not yielded good results. Such cases deserve considerat...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.

Moving Forward into the Future

This is the final issue of Global Spine Journal for 2016. As the year draws to a close, we would like to update our readers, authors, and reviewers with the changes that will be made next year. This issue is also our final issue that we publish with Thieme Publishers. On behalf of the entire Editorial Board,wewould like to thank Thieme for their past services to GSJ and EBSJ over the last 5 yea...