Editors

Biography: Dr. W John Martin is Medical Director of the Institute of Progressive Medicine, within MI Hope Inc., a non-profit United States public charity that specializes in the cause, prevention and treatment of mental illnesses. Dr. Martin received his medical degree from the University of Sydney in 1965 and the PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in 1970. He is Board Certified in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with subspecialty qualifications in Immunopathology and in Medical Microbiology.

Using molecular assays and specialized virus culture techniques, Dr. Martin pioneered research leading to the detection of stealth adapted viruses. These viruses are not effectively recognized by immune system due to the deletion or mutation of the virus genes that code for the relatively few virus components normally targeted by cellular immunity. Certain stealth adapted viruses currently infecting humans were likely originally introduced into humans as cytomegalovirus contaminants of polio virus vaccines. Moreover, the testing of contaminated experimental polio vaccines in African chimpanzees probably explains the origin of HIV, the AIDS virus.  Stealth adapted viruses are a probable contributing cause of several major mental illness, autism and the chronic fatigue syndrome.

Studies on stealth adapted viruses led to the description of the alternative cellular energy (ACE) pathway as a major defense mechanism capable of suppressing both stealth adapted and conventional viruses, as well as other pathogens. The ACE pathway differs from cellular energy obtained from food metabolism in other important ways, including empowering aspects of higher brain functioning. 

Dr. Martin explains the ACE pathway in terms of the brain’s capacity to attract a natural external energy force into the body. He has termed this force KELEA (kinetic energy limiting electrostatic attraction). Water and other materials, called enerceuticals™ can also capture and beneficially transmit KELEA to humans, animals and plants. KELEA can also be used in Industry, including improving the efficiency of heat transfer and of fuel combustion.

Biography: Dr. Katzman is the Clinic Director and Staff Psychiatrist at the S.T.A.R.T. Clinic (Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, Rehabilitation and Treatment) for Mood and Anxiety Disorders. He is also a faculty member at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Laurentian University and Lakehead University). He is also appointed in the Department of Psychology at Lakehead University and is a member of the Faculty of Psychology at Adler School of Professional Studies.

Dr. Katzman was trained at the University of Toronto, first undertaking his B.Sc. in Psychology and Neuroscience, and subsequently his medical training and residency.

Dr. Katzman’s clinical work deals chiefly with the diagnosis and treatment of adults suffering with mood and anxiety disorders, as well as those suffering with chronic Attention Deficit Disorders, Executive Dysfunction as well as chronic pain, providing expert diagnostic assessment, and pharmacological treatment as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in both group and individual formats, psychodynamic treatment and Mindfulness Based treatments.

Biography: I am a Professor of Paediatrics. I've worked as a neonatologist and paediatrician in the Siena University Hospital since 1993. I've published more than 400 papers and 15 books.

My main research interest is pain and stress prevention in childhood and neonates. In particular, I have devoted most of my research to pain assessment, and I have developed a pain scale ("ABC scale") that scores pain through the features of babies' crying. I studied both affective and spectral characteristics of babies' crying, and this has brought my studies into two directions: the ethics of pain treatment of those subjects who cannot speak, and the study of crying.

In the former field, I am member of the Ethics Committee of my Hospital and of the ethical Committee of theTuscany Region Presidency; I have been invited as an expert to several places, among which the Italian Committee of Bioethics, and the The Ethics Commission of Mexico. I have recently published a textbook on paediatric palliative care (A New Holistic-Evolutive Approach to Paediatric Palliative Care), where I deal with therapies and ethics of children's treatment, and an essay on the difference between weeping and crying. These researches have highlighted the importance of rhythmic behaviours for the homeostasis of children and adults: sucking, breathing, chewing, walking are substantial for health; to these I have recently added laughter.

Biography: Professor Augustine Nwoye is Professor of Psychology and Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Through his research and writings Dr. Nwoye has made original and unique contributions to the definition and study of African Psychology as an emerging specialization very much in demand in the curriculum of many departments of psychology in the South and other regions of Africa.

His inaugural lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, titled: What is African Psychology the psychology of? was well-received and is now published in the prestigious journal, Theory & Psychology. His other important contributions to the field have appeared in: Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Black Psychology, The American Journal of Family Therapy, Psychotherapy and Politics International, Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, South African Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Special Education, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, Contemporary Family Therapy, Dialectical Anthropology, Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management, Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, and the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy at the threshold of the Millennium, Edited by Massey & Massey, etc.

Professor Nwoye has held distinguished teaching positions in several other universities in Africa, including: The University of Jos, Nigeria; Kenyatta University, Kenya; The University of Dodoma, Tanzania; and Covenant University, Nigeria. During his time at Kenyatta University he helped to establish its Department of Psychology, and served as the pioneer Chair of that department. Also, while at Kenyatta, he was selected along with some few other academics to represent Kenyatta University in the task of assisting the University of Rwanda when the latter was struggling to re-establish itself at the cessation of hostilities and the return of civil peace in that country.

Professor Nwoye has won several visiting fellowships and given public lectures in many universities in continental Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, including the Universities of Cambridge and Suffolk (England), Toronto and Calgary (Canada), Stockholm (Sweden), Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), Covenant University (Nigeria), and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). Professor Nwoye is a native of Nigeria and received all his graduate education from the University of Nigeria. He was recently in the US as a Fulbright Scholar at College of the Holy Cross and Howard University.

Biography: Dr. Ginalber Serra is a psychologist and professor in Electrical Engineering, who leads the Research Group on Computational Intelligence Applied to Technology at Federal Institute of Education, Sciences and Technology (IFMA, São Luis-MA, Brasil), advises master's and doctorate students, has served as an editor for three books, and has produced around 200 papers comprising periodicals, conferences, and book chapters.

Biography: Dr Masoud Mohammadnezhad graduated with a BSc in Public Health Nursing and a MSc in Health Promotion before he was awarded his PhD in Public Health from Flinders University in Australia. As a Senior Lecturer in Health Research at Birmingham City University he is involved in vast range of research activities.

He has vast experience in all types of research designs including qualitative, quantitative, and systematic review studies. He is presently teaching research methodology to Masters and PhD students in a number of universities. Dr Mohammadnezhad has published more than 170 papers in high quality peer-reviewed journals and have also presented at more than 60 national and international conferences. He has a strong record of supervising master and PhD students. He is member of different international associations such as the American Psychological Association (APA).

Biography: Arturo Ortega holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from The National Autonomous University of Mexico  (1985),  a M. Sc. in Physiology  from Cinvestav, Mexico City (1985) and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology (1991) from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. After spending 2 years in the Department of Biochemistry in Cinvestav as an Assistant Professor, he moved to the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and in 2004 to the rank of Professor. More recently (2013) he moved to the Department of Toxicology where he established a Neurotoxicology Lab. He has been Visiting Professor in the Institute of Neuroscience of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008) and in the Catholic University of Louvain (2014-2015). He served as the Department Chair (Genetics and Molecular Biology). He has been working on glutamate receptors and transporters focusing on signaling, gene expression regulation at the transcriptional and translational levels for more than 30 years. He has published over 100 research articles and mentored 33 PhD and 67 MSc students. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of the two major Neurochemistry journals and of the book series Advances in Neurobiology.

Biography: Seth D. Norrholm, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with doctoral training in both Translational Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. He has over 20 years of research experience in furthering the understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying fear-, anxiety-, trauma-, and stressor-related disorders and the psychiatric conditions with which these disorders are co-morbid. Dr. Norrholm's lab consists of both “classical” bench-based neuroscience as well as clinical trials dedicated to the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. Together with a network of collaborators, Dr. Norrholm has employed objective, psychophysiological methods to study the underpinnings of mammalian fear processing as well as the mechanisms mediating effective treatments for fear and anxiety. Dr. Norrholm has been recognized as a world leader in the psychobiology of fear and trauma.

Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Institute of Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China

Research Interests: Behavioral science, Mental stress and psychotherapy

Biography: Marco Cascella, MD, works in the Department of Supportive Care at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Fondazione ‘G. Pascale” – IRCCS, Naples, Italy, where he has responsibility for research in anesthesia and pain medicine. He was granted the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) for Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care in Italian Universities and he is annual Professor of Physiology on the Degree Course in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques at the Faculty of Medicine, University ‘Federico II,” Naples. Dr. Cascella graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1997 from the University ‘Vanvitelli” of Naples and then undertook postgraduate studies in anesthesia and intensive care, obtaining his doctorate in 2001. He acts as an editorial board member for several medical journals. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences and conventions and is the author of about 150 scientific publications, books, and book chapters in the fields of anesthesia, pathophysiology, treatment of pain, oncology, and palliative care. Dr. Cascella also heads and participates in various research projects.

Biography: Dr. Kalliopi Megari Clinical Neuropsychologist Counselling psychologist Health Care Specialist International Representative- International Neuropsychological Society EDUCATION 1st Bachelor Degree Nursing School, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece 2nd Bachelor Degree (University Diploma) School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Master’s Degree Master’s Degree Program, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. School of Psychology & School of Medicine. Doctoral Degree Doctorate Degree Program, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. School of Psychology & School of Medicine. CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki “Theageneio”, Clinic of Radiation Therapy Treatment. Prison of Thessaloniki Diavata. School of a second chance. February 2013-Now. Counseling psychologist Group Parents Counselling. March 2014-2015. Adult educator. Head of the centre of creative activities of children with disabilities, Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece. November 2015-Now RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (EUROPEAN COMMISSION): Administration of measures to neurological and psychiatric patients. August 2011- December 2011. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grant: Neuropsychological decline in the elderly. February 2013-December 2013 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grant: Postoperative cognitive decline following cardiac surgery. February 2014-December 2014 ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI GRANT: Postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction following cardiac surgery-January 2015-September 2015.

Biography: Olesya Volkova obtained her degree as Candidate of Psychology (PhD) in the field of Clinical Psychology in 2009. Now she is an associate professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Department at the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. She has more than 70 papers published in reputed Russian and international journals, book chapters and 8 monographs.

The topic of the post-graduate research reveals the problem of “The specific features of will-power development among children of pre-school age having weak somatic health”. Now the research interest is in the field of studying ontogenetic development of the Learned Helplessness phenomena which is strictly connected with the state of somatic health, social environment and parental influence on the child since the pre-school age till the adulthood.

One of the fundamental methodological ideas of this researcher is to recover differences and similarities between Contemporary Positive Psychology and Cultural-and-Historical Approach developed in Russian Psychology on the spot of Learned Helplessness and Somatic Health.

Biography: Roberto Maniglio, Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.S., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology. He is a psychotherapist, a criminologist and forensic psychopathologist, and a court-appointed expert. He is Honorary Judge at Ministry of Justice, Juvenile Court of Bari, Italy, and he is also Director Psychologist at Ministerial Department of Health, Local Health Agency of Taranto, Italy. He teaches at the University of Basilicata, Italy.

Biography: Krystal Diedrichsen, EdD, MSN, RN is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Mount Marty University in Yankton, South Dakota. She currently teaches in the undergraduate nursing program and serves as the BSN Student Success Coordinator. She obtained her BSN at Mount Marty University and her MSN degree from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. In addition to teaching, she has over 20 years of experience working as a nurse in psychiatric mental health.

Her EdD with a focus in nursing education she obtained from Bryan College of Health Sciences in Lincoln, Nebraska. The topic of her dissertation research was "Undergraduate nursing faculty's lived experience of authentic leadership in nursing education". Her continued research interests include student success, stress management, and overall mental health factors in undergraduate nursing students. 

Biography: Professor Yong-Ku Kim graduated in Medicine from the Korea University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea in 1987. He received his master's degree in 1991 and Ph.D. in Psychiatry in 1998, both from the Department of Psychiatry, Korea University. His professional activities extend beyond the area of pure clinical or research work. He has well over 170 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and twenty book chapters in the area of biological psychiatry. He is currently on the editorial boards of some leading academic journals in the field of neurobiology, including Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Investigation, World Journal Psychiatry, Annals of Depression and Anxiety, and Psychiatry Journal. He has mainly conducted research in psychoimmunology, biological markers of suicide, and genetic polymorphism in biological psychiatry.

Biography: María Robles Martínez. PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Cádiz. Graduated in Medicine from the University of Cantabria. Specialist in Psychiatry (University Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cádiz). Expert in Emergencies in Mental Health by the University of Alcalá. Master's Degree in Psychopathology from the University of León. Member of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and the Spanish Society of Dual Pathology.

At present, she works as an Assistant Psychiatrist in the Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Addictions (INAD), Parc de Salut Mar (Barcelona) and as a Researcher in the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) (Barcelona). She is professor of the Master in Drug Addiction of the Continuing Education Institute IL-3, of the University of Barcelona. She is the author / co-author of several chapters of books and articles indexed in scientific journals.

She is co-author of the book "Alcohol dependence: an integral vision". She has participated as a speaker in several national congresses and as an author of posters and oral communications in both national and international congresses.

Biography: Shirley Telles completed M.B.B.S. and subsequently M.Phil and Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences [NIMHANS], Bangalore, India . Dr. Telles directs research at Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, India. She has 161 research publications related to the above mentioned areas of research in journals indexed in international bibliographic databases [such as Medline, PsycLit and others], 18 chapters in books and 4 published books. She received an award from The Indian Council of Medical Research, The John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org), U.S.A. (January, 2002), and a Fulbright Fellowship (J.William Fulbright Foundation, U.S.A) to study “Functional magnetic resonance imaging in meditators”. Dr. Telles is an enthusiastic practitioner of yoga herself.

Biography: Hellme Najim graduated from Mosul Medical School in Iraq in 1977. He attained membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1983 and served as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Mosul University from 1989 to 1993. He continued his academic career as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Sanaa in Yemen. Subsequently, he lectured at the Institute of Psychiatry in London from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Najim has been a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South Essex University NHS Trust since 2000. He is also an editorial board member of the International Journal of Psychiatry and has chaired the Transcultural Psychiatry Special Interest Group at The Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2012.

Biography: Dr (Col) Suprakash Chaudhury Professor of Psychiatry, Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College Hospital & Research Center, Pune, did his MBBS and MD in Psychiatry from Armed Forces Medical College and PhD from Gauhati University. He was Associate Prof of Psychiatry at AFMC from 2000-2004, Prof & HOD, Psychiatry at Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry & Allied Sciences  from 2005-2012 and thereafter Rural Medical College, PIMS (DU), Loni from 2012-Apr 2017. He is teacher & examiner of MD (Psychiatry) & PhD in few universities. He has won few professional awards, published over 200 papers in National & International journals. He is a member of the editorial board of 9 journals and edited 11 books.
 

Biography: Dr. Abed N. Azab received his PhD in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev during the period of 1999. Currently, he is working as a professor in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has authored 32 research articles. He is a member of Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry. He has awarded as Excellence in Studying Award, Pratt Fellowship for Faculty Candidates, Career Development Chair in Community Health Professions.

Biography: Dr.SAWSAN KAMAL ELGALAD is Assistant professor of nursing at psychiatric nursing department, king Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for health sciences, king Abdul-Aziz medical city since 19/10/2015 up till now.

She had previous employments as Lecturer of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Alexandria University, Egypt. Demonstrator from 9/9/1999. Worked as Assistant lecturer from 4/6/2008 and Lecturer from 26/6/2013. She completed her Bachelor degree from   Faculty of Nursing, University of Alexandria, June 1998.  And master degree from Faculty of Nursing, University of Alexandria, August 2007, in Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health excellent degree. And doctorate degree from Faculty of Nursing, University of Alexandria, April 2013, in Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health. 
 

Biography: Aditya Narayan Tripathi is an Associate Professor in Education Department at Sant Tulsi Das Post Graduate College Kadipur Sultanpur, which is affiliated to Avadh University, Faizabad, UP. He is the Editor of weekly and daily newspaper, Aditya Times and Founder of Degree College, Secondary School, Primary & Junior High School as Karmyogi Ram Surat Tripathi Mahavidyalya, Maharashi Dayanand Inter College, Swami Vivekanand Convent Junior High School & Swami Viveknand Primary Convent School, etc. He is also the Promoter of a political party named Bhartiya Jan Samman Party. He is the Convener of Education Department in Avadh University and also a Member of Indian Academy of Health Psychology. He is an Ex-Senior Vice President of Teacher Association of Avadh University Faizabad and Secretary of the Press Club, Ambedkar Nagar, UP.

Biography: Mrs. Grace Igiamoh-Livingwater was formally Miss. Grace Odunlami. She is a public health researcher and professional. She currently works as a lecturer at Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology. She also works with public health research organizations and community partners to solve problems in health-related fields. She is an expert in design, monitoring and evaluation, health information systems, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, proposal writing, questionnaire designing, reporting, research quality assessment, data analysis using advanced statistical methods, organization and presentation, coordination, planning and training. Apart from her Master's degree in Medical Statistics from the faculty of Public Health, she has acquired several other certificates in Environmental and Public Health from different international institutions. Her current research focuses on psychosocial functioning, mental health and depression, children and adolescents, sexual health, early menopause and so on.