PCN is published 12 online issues a year by JSPN in all fields of psychiatry and related clinical or translational neurosciences in the following categories: Review Articles, Regular Articles, Letters to the Editor and Research Letters.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Shigenobu Kanba (Fukuoka)
Tadafumi Kato (Wako)

VICE-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Shinji Hosoda (Matsue)
Michio Suzuki (Toyama)
Masaru Mimura (Tokyo)

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Yoji Hirano (Fukuoka)

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
Masatoshi Takeda (Osaka)
Hiroshi Kurita (Tokyo)

EDITORIAL BOARD
Hajime Baba (Tokyo)
Masato Fukuda (Maebashi)
Ryota Hashimoto (Tokyo)
Teruo Hayashi (Hamada)
Manabu Ikeda (Osaka)
Kazuya Iwamoto (Kumamoto)
Yoshiharu Kim (Tokyo)
Toshihiko Kinoshita (Osaka)
Ichiro Kusumi (Sapporo)
Masafumi Mizuno (Tokyo)
Atsuo Nakagawa (Tokyo)
Kazuhiko Nakamura (Hirosaki)
Daisuke Nishi (Tokyo)
Akihiko Nunomura (Tokyo)
Takashi Okada (Nagoya)
Toshiaki Onitsuka (Fukuoka)
Norio Ozaki (Nagoya)
Kazuhiro Shinosaki (Sakai)
Gen Shinozaki (Iowa)
Hidehiko Takahashi (Tokyo)
Hiroaki Tomita (Sendai)
Hiroyuki Uchida (Tokyo)
Hidenori Yamasue (Hamamatsu)
Reiji Yoshimura (Kitakyushu)

STATISTICAL ADVISERS
Toshiaki A. Furukawa (Kyoto)

CHIEF MANAGING EDITORS
Keiji Kobara (Matsue)
Shintaro Kawakami (Tokyo)

DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR
Masashi Mizutani (Tokyo)

ART ADVISORS
Kenjiro Hosaka (Tokyo)
Yoji Hirano (Fukuoka)

ADVISORY BOARD (International)
Dinesh Bhugra (UK)
Kamaldeep Bhui (UK)
Helen Chiu (Hong Kong)
Joseph T. Coyle (USA)
Wolfgang Gaebel (Germany)
Kua Ee Heok (Singapore)
Steven Hirsch (UK)
Hai-Gwo Hwu (Taiwan)
Richard Keefe (USA)
Jun Soo Kwon (Korea)
Min-Soo Lee (Korea)
Jeffrey Lieberman (USA)
Patrick D. McGorry (Australia)
Herbert Y. Meltzer (USA)
Häns-Jurgen Möller (Germany)
Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
Winston Shen (Taiwan)
Torgny H. Svensson (Sweden)
Pichet Udomratn (Thailand)
Zeping Xiao (China)
Xin Yu (China)