INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

The rapidly increasing world population of aged people has led to a growing need to focus attention on the problems of mental disorder in late life. The aim of the Journal is to communicate the results of original research in the causes treatment and care of all forms of mental disorder which affect the elderly. The Journal is of interest to psychiatrists psychologists social scientists nurses and others engaged in therapeutic professions together with general neurobiological researchers. The Journal provides an international perspective on the important issue of geriatric psychiatry and contributions are published from countries throughout the world. Topics covered include epidemiology of mental disorders in old age clinical aetiological research post-mortem pathological and neurochemical studies treatment trials and evaluation of geriatric psychiatry services.

世界老年人口的迅速增长使人们越来越有必要把注意力集中在老年精神障碍问题上。该杂志的目的是传播关于影响老年人的各种精神障碍病因、治疗和护理的原始研究结果。该杂志对精神病学家、心理学家、社会科学家、护士和其他从事治疗专业的人员以及一般的神经生物学研究人员感兴趣。该杂志对老年精神病学的重要问题提供了一个国际视角，并发表了来自世界各国的贡献。主题包括老年精神障碍的流行病学、临床病因学研究、尸检病理学和神经化学研究、治疗试验和老年精神病学服务的评价。