Advisory Board and Editors Psychiatry & Psychology
Luisa A.M. Pinto
Luisa Pinto is Assistant Researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho in Portugal, and Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho. She is also manager of a spin-off enterprise “BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Lab” of the ICVS. Luisa is Associate Member of EpiGeneSys, a FP7 European Community-funded Network of Excellence; Editor of the journal Advances in Biology.
Renato Polimanti
Dr. Renato Polimanti is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. His scientific interests include Human Genetics, Biological Psychiatry, Computational Biology and Human Evolution.
Ruth Propper
Dr. Ruth E. Propper is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Montclair State University, where she is the director of the Cerebral Lateralization Laboratory. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Toledo in Cognitive Neuropsychology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Mental Health Research Center, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Harvard Medical School, in the laboratory of Drs. Allan Hobson and Robert Stickgold. There, she studied the role of sleep and dreaming on memory consolidation. She was also a Visiting Researcher in the Golby Laboratory: A Surgical Brain Mapping Laboratory, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, examining individual differences in handedness effects on brain organization.
Propper has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, 2 book chapters, and more than 50 presentations at national and international conferences. She extensively mentors undergraduate and graduate research students, training more than 50 students in her laboratory over the course of her career to date.
Valter Prpic
Dr. Prpic is a cognitive psychologist. Before joining University of Bologna, he was a Senior lecturer at De Montfort University, visiting researcher at the University of Malta and a research associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Previously, he completed a postdoc and PhD at the University of Trieste.
Dr. Prpic’s research focuses on different topics related to perception and cognition. One of his main research areas focuses on the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Coded (SNARC) and other related spatial association effects. Dr. Prpic’s research investigates spatial association effects both for numerical and other non-numerical stimuli, such as music parameters (e.g., pitch height, tempo, musical notes), emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions), luminance and visual illusions.
A second line of research focuses on perception and action, in particular the research of Dr. Prpic aims at investigating how musicians, athletes and common people use visual and auditory information for improving their motor performance. His other research interests include visual and auditory perception, psychophysics, attention, music cognition and sport psychology.
Alexandre Quintas
Dr. Alexandre Quintas is a Senior Associate Professor at Egas Moniz University, Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Biological Chemistry.
Dr. Quintas' primary areas of research focus on tackling the
novel psychoactive substances issue, linking its use to neurodegenerative diseases.
Nicola Reavley
Dr Nicola Reavley is a Principal Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on improving public knowledge and beliefs about mental health problems, reducing stigma and discrimination and improving support for those with mental disorders.
A/Prof Reavley is a Chief Investigator on five NHMRC-funded projects, three of which aim to improve mental health literacy in members of the public. She also led a number of projects that aim to assist organisations to better manage mental health issues, including the development of guidelines for implementation of a strategy for the prevention of mental health problems and for supporting employees returning to work after an episode of anxiety or depression, which can be found at http://workplace-mentalhealth.net.au/ . She also led the conduct of the 2011 National Survey of Mental Health Literacy and Stigma and the 2014 National Survey of Discrimination and Positive Treatment in People with Mental Health Problems.
Darren Rhodes
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Interested in modelling perception, time perception, multisensory processing, Bayesian models, and Open Science.
Shane L Rogers
Shane is a lecturer in psychology at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research interests are primarily focused on mental health and interpersonal communication. He has an interest in using technology for psychological applications, such as eye tracking, and virtual reality.
Don C Rojas
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Chair, Department of Psychology
The main focus of my research endeavors is sensory and motor processing in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and childhood onset schizophrenia. A major theme in my work has been the identification of heritable biomarkers in autism, using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques in first-degree relatives. Recent work has focused on auditory temporal processing and gamma-band timing deficits as well as magnetic resonance spectroscopy of amino acid neurotransmitter systems associated with gamma-band oscillations. I am also affiliated with the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory and Brain Imaging Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and have expertise in several brain-imaging methods, primarily MEG, but also including structural MRI, fMRI and MR spectroscopy. Current research at CSU involves EEG and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine the coupling of electrophysiology and hemodynamics in sensory and motor systems.
Jayakumar Saikarthik
Dr Saikarthik has an undergraduate degree in Radiology and Imaging Sciences Technology from Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, India. He obtained his MSc in Medicine and Anatomy, followed by a PhD in the same specialty from the prestigious Saveetha University, India.
Dr Saikarthik's research interests include, Gross and Radiological Anatomy, Neurogenesis and Neurohistology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Medical Education and Qualitative Research Methods. He has authored many scientific articles which have been published in ranked journals. Recently he has also published a book chapter on the association of COVID-19 with neurogenesis.
Dr Saikarthik is a fellow from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, UK; Member of the British Association of Clinical Anatomy; Member of the Saudi Society of Medical Education and Member of the Royal Society of Biology UK. He is also a member and certificate holder of Essential Skills in Medical Education from Association of Medical Education from Europe.
Some of his awards include: Best oral presentation award from Association of Anatomist of Tamilnadu, Young researcher in Anatomy and Mental health (2021) and Global Faculty Award (2020). He is also currently an Associate Editor at Majmaah Journal of Health Sciences.
Kyoshiro Sasaki
Dr. Kyoshiro Sasaki is an experimental psychologist and an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Informatics at Kansai University. He obtained his PhD in 2016 where he engaged in research on embodied emotion. He has a wide range of research interests; emotion, embodied cognition, object recognition, spatial and temporal cognition, psychological ownership, and metascience.
Dr. Sasaki is an editorial board member of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, PLOS ONE, the Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, and the Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions. He is also a Recommender of Peer Community In Registered Reports.
Ricarda I Schubotz
2011 Professor for Biological Psychology, University of Münster
2008 Group Leader “Motor Cognition” (W2 Minerva Programme), Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne
2006/7 Dorothea Erxleben Professorship, University Magdeburg
2004 Habilitation Cognitive Neurology
1999-2007 Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
1998 PhD Cognitive Sciences
1995-1998 Research Scientist, Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin