Advisory Board and Editors Psychiatry & Psychology
Kenichi Shibuya
Professor of Kansai University.
Researching topics such as the Impact of exercise and physical activity on cognitive function, and on vascular health; the Impact of Flavors on taste perceptions; the Impact of Chewing on cerebral activation and Cognition; the Impact of Colors on taste perceptions
Jair C. Soares
Dr. Soares obtained his M.D. in 1990 from the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil. He completed his psychiatric training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging research at the department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He has extensive clinical research experience on brain imaging, neurocognitive methods and clinical trials primarily in the field of mood disorders.
Fabrizio Sors
Dr. Fabrizio Sors is an Assistant Professor in General Psychology at the University of Trieste. His research activity is mainly focused on perceptual-cognitive processes, both at a basic level and applied to various fields, primarily to sports.
Truc Thanh Thai
Associate Professor Truc Thanh Thai has a background in public health and a PhD in health sciences from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has been working in the field of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Methodology and is the Head of Department of Medical Statistics and Informatics at Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Dr. Thai has been proactively working with researchers worldwide to address practical, public health issues. His research interests include Biostatistics, Data sciences, Artificial intelligence, Epidemiology, Mental health, Adolescent health, and quality of life in people with chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS, and Substance use.
Luca Tommasi
I am an experimental psychologist and professor of psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Chieti, Italy. My research is currently focused on human perception, emotion and memory, with a slant on hemispheric and behavioural lateralization, and a comparative perspective. I earned a PhD in Psychology from University of Padua, and was a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS in Marseille, and at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg.
Brett Trost
Dr. Brett Trost is a Scientist in the Molecular Medicine Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He is a computational biologist with a particular interest in human genetics.
Lucy J Troup
Dr. Lucy J. Troup is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol) in the Strategic Hub for Psychology, Social Work, Health Behaviours and Addictions at the University of the West of Scotland. She is also holds an Affiliate Faculty appointment at Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. Her research focus is centered round Emotion Processing using Event Related Potentials to better understand the endogenous and exogenous variables that influence emotional expression recognition. Currently the main emphasis in the Troup lab is to understand how Cannabis effects emotion processing.
Dr. Troup received her Undergraduate degree in Psychology form the University of Plymouth in the UK. Her graduate work, translational M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems and Ph.D in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience were also awarded from the University of Plymouth under the direction of Prof. Mike Denham, Professor Emeritus Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience.
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara is Professor of Neuroscience at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento, Italy, and he has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at the University of New England, Australia for several years.
He is the author of over 400 scientific papers (with more than 30,000 citations overall; h-index: 76 Scopus; 96 Google Scholar), most in the area of animal cognition and comparative neuroscience. He discovered the first evidence of functional brain asymmetry in the so-called “lower” vertebrate species (fish, amphibians); he also worked on comparative cognition, in particular on visual perception of biological motion, and spatial and number cognition.
He served in the editorial boards of several cognitive science and neuroscience journals, he was co-editor of the journal “Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Body and Cognition” and has been the recipient of several awards.
His major research interest is the study of cognition in a comparative and evolutionary perspective, with particular reference to the mechanisms underlying the use of geometry in spatial navigation and the origins of number and object cognition in the animal brain. He also studied extensively the evolution of the asymmetry of the brain.
Jim van Os
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Academic Editor at PLoS ONE. Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011).
Shravan Vasishth
Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. Specialization in computational models of sentence comprehension; sentence processing in aphasia; working memory and language comprehension; Bayesian statistics.
Albert HC Wong
Albert H.C. Wong is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and a Professor at the University of Toronto. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto, where he also completed specialty training in psychiatry and a PhD in neurobiology. Dr. Wong’s lab uses animal models and clinical studies to investigate genetic, epigenetic and developmental mechanisms of psychiatric disease. His areas of clinical expertise are in schizophrenia and brain stimulation.
Yuki Yamada
He is an associate professor of Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University. He finished his PhD in 2008 where he carried out research looking at spatial localization. He is now expanding his research interests to emotion, personality, and consciousness as well as spatial and time perceptions. Awarded The Young Scientists' Award by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2021.
He serves as a senior editor of Journal of Illusion and as a managing board member of PCI Registered Reports. He is also an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Collabra: Psychology, Japanese Psychological Research, Trends in Scholarly Publishing, and Cognitive Studies.