Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease is a scholarly journal on psychopathology

Psychopathology

Psychopathology is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior. The term is most commonly used within psychiatry where pathology refers to disease processes...

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Founded in 1874, it is the world's oldest independent scientific monthly in the field of human behavior

Human behavior

Human behavior refers to the range of behaviors exhibited by humans and which are influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and/or genetics....

. Articles cover theory, etiology, therapy, social impact of illness, and research methods.

Editors:

1874-1881: James Stewart Jewell
1882-1885: W. J. Morton
1886-1887: Bernard Sachs
Bernard Sachs
Bernard Sachs was a Jewish-American neurologist. After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the most prominent physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul , Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen , Friedrich Goltz , Rudolf Virchow...
1888-1889: C. H. Brown
1889-1890: G. M. Hammond
1890-1901: C. H. Brown
1902-1944: Smith Ely Jelliffe
Smith Ely Jelliffe
Smith Ely Jelliffe . American neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst who lived and practiced in New York City nearly his entire life. Originally trained in botany and pharmacy, Jelliffe switched first to neurology in the mid-1890s then to psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and ultimately to...
1945-1957: N. D. C. Lewis
1958-1959: J. E. Finesinger
1961-1967: L. S. Kubie
1967-2010: E.B. Brody
2010-current: John A. Talbott

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