Frontiers in Psychiatry has announced the appointment of Professor Sören Krach from Lübeck University, Germany, as Specialty Chief Editor of the new Social Cognition section. Professor Sören Krach heads the Social Neuroscience in Psychiatry group at Lübeck University's Social Neuroscience Lab. His clinical research focuses primarily on Autism Spectrum Disorder and social anxiety.
As the Specialty Chief Editor of the new Frontiers in Psychiatry section, he aims to encourage scientists in the field of psychiatry to dare new avenues in the study of social cognition. He also hopes to create a space for researchers to embrace the full methodological breadths of the field.
The domain of social cognitive processes thus belongs to the central themes on the way to a better understanding of mental disorders. This has been also acknowledged in the Research Domain Criteria (RDOC) initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) by explicitly listing 'Systems for Social Processes' as one of their five research domains to the investigation of mental disorders.
Prof. Krach believes that Open Access facilitates and fosters fruitful communication, interaction and collaboration between researchers worldwide, and does not exclude researchers from ongoing discussions in the field. Prof. Krach argues this is a key ingredient to the development of novel paradigms in general - something especially known in the field of social cognition.
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