Open access scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced the launch of a new journal Translational Developmental Psychiatry, under the editorship of Professor Florian Daniel Zepf, RWTH Aachen University/JARA Translational Brain Medicine, Germany. The journal provides an Open Access platform for the exchange of high-quality scientific knowledge and research findings among professionals in the field of developmental psychiatry and aims to make innovative research widely, rapidly, and freely available to the psychiatry and neuroscience communities and beyond.
Translational Developmental Psychiatry launches with a series of articles that demonstrate the journal's focus on three crucial developmental epochs - infancy, childhood and adolescence. In addition, the abstracts and corresponding video-captured presentations from a 2012 symposium on 'Stimulating New Research on Serotonergic Neurotransmission from a Developmental Perspective' are available. Future authors will be strongly encouraged to publish video files and other multi-media materials and data to take fuller advantage of the opportunities online publishing provides.
Professor Zepf is supported by Senior Editors James Dee Higley, Professor at Brigham Young University, and David Rubinow, Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also joining the editorial team are three Section Editors, each specialists in one of the developmental phases addressed by the journal: Professor Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Harvard University (Infancy); Professor Louise Newman, Monash University (Childhood); and Professor James Dee Higley, Brigham Young University (Adolescence).
