Aims and Scope
The journal’s concern is to understand and improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness globally. In addition to original research papers the journal accepts review papers, commentaries, short reports, and book reviews. We particularly encourage scholars from less privileged regions of the world who often have less access to scientific journals, to send us their papers and opinions.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Daina Crafa (the Netherlands)
Assistant Professor in Clinical Neuropsychology, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Editorial Staff
- Fatemeh Bagheri, Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief (Iran)
Editorial Assistant
- Efe Barbosa (Mexico)
Editorial Board
- Fernanda Pérez Gay Juárez (Canada)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Mike Campbell (Barbados)
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados - Sergio A. Covarrubias-Castillo (Mexico)
Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico - Svetlana Vladimirova (Russia)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia - Yared Z. Zewde (Ethiopia)
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
International Advisors
North America
- Renato D. Alarcon, MD, MPH – Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (USA)
- James K. Boehnlein, MD, MSc – Oregon Health and Science University (USA)
- Suk Choo Chang, MD – Seattle (USA & Korea)
- Armando Favazza, MD, MPH – University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
- Ezra Griffith, MD – Yale University (USA)
- Robert Kohn , MD – Brown University (USA)
- Juan Mezzich, MD – Mount Sinai School of Medicine (USA)
- Sergio J. Villaseñor Bayardo, MD, PhD – University of Guadalajara (Mexico)
- Joseph Westermeyer, MD, PhD – University of Minnesota (USA)
- Ron Wintrob, MD – Brown University (USA)
Central and South America
- Mario G. Hollweg, MD – Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)
- Mario Incayawar, MD, MSc – Runajambi Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health (Ecuador)
- Roger Montenegro, MD – Institute of Postgraduate & CME in Psychiatry of APSA (Argentina)
Europe
- Kamaldeep Bhui – Queen Mary University of London (UK)
- Vittorio de Luca – Azienda Sanitaria Locale ROMA 5 (Italy)
- Riyadh Al Baldawi, MD, PhD – Orient Health Centre (Sweden & Iraq)
- Rachid Bennegadi, MD – Centre Françoise Minkowska (France)
- Filippo Cieri, PhD – Università G. D’Annunzio Chieti (Italy)
- Wolfgang Jilek MD, MSc – University of British Columbia (Canada)
- Marianne Kastrup, MD, PhD – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Casear P. Korolenko, MD, PhD – Novosibirsk Medical Academy (Russia)
- Roland Littlewood, DPhil, DSc – University College London (UK)
- Mario Maj, MD – Seconda Università di Napoli (Italy)
- Joan Obiols, MD – Hospital de Meritxell (Andorra)
- Richard Rechtman, MD – Université de Paris 5 (France)
- Hans Rohlof, MD – University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
- Giangiacomo Rovera, MD – Università di Torino (Italy)
- Ekkehard Schröder, MD – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin (Germany)
- Thomas Stompe, MD – Psychiatric University Clinic (Austria)
- Kalpana Thomas, MRCPsych, Msc – South Essex NHS Trust (UK)
- Mitchell G. Weiss, MD, PhD – Swiss Tropical Institute (Switzerland)
Asia & Middle East
- Sing Lee, MB, BS – Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- Kwangiel Kim, MD, PhD – Hanyang University (Korea)
- Xudong Zhao, MD – Tongji University (China)
South Asia
- Ajita Chakraborty, FRCPE, FRCPsych – Calcutta University (India)
- Arabinda. N. Chowdhury, MD, MRCPsych – Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (India)
- Afzal Javed, MBBS, FRCPsych – University of Warwick (UK & Pakistan)
- M. Fakhr El-Islam, FRCP, FRCPsych – Behman Hospital (Egypt)
Africa
- Dan L. Mkize, MMed (Psych) – University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
- Seggane Musisi, MB, ChB – Makerere University Medical School (Uganda)
- Samuel O. Okpaku, MD, PhD – Meharry Medical College (USA & Nigeria)
Australia – New Zealand
- Andrew Hornblow, PhD – University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
- Eng-Seong Tan, MD – University of Melbourne (Australia)
Contact Information
You can contact the WCPRR by mailing Fatemeh Fatemeh Bagheri, assistant to the Editor-in-Chief: