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Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics focuses on the interactions between genes and the environment that influence human behavioral traits and the manifestation and pathology of psychiatric illness (including addiction and developmental disorders). The section accommodates research covering a wide range of phenotypes, encompassing both normal variation in the population and psychopathological extremes in areas as varied as cognition and personality.We aim to publish significant studies that investigate these research questions from a variety of methodological and sampling design perspectives covering the human condition, including, but not limited to, clinical, family-based, and epidemiological approaches. Animal research that is relevant to human behavioral and psychiatric phenotypes is also welcome. We place particular emphasis on the careful characterization of phenotypes and environmental factors, as well as both traditional and novel genetic methodological approaches to the study of human behavior and psychiatric illness. In particular, we emphasize the value of etiological applications that increase the understanding of inherited risk or resilience to behavioral and psychiatric disorders and the increased need to discover molecular mechanisms and pathways that underlie those genetic susceptibilities. The elucidation of molecular mechanisms and biological pathways that might advance treatment and prevention efforts is especially encouraged.
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Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Correction, Data Report, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Protocols, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Psychiatry and Genetics.
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