İmran Gökçen YILMAZ KARAMAN currently works in Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, as a lecturer in Department of Psychiatry. She is a psychiatrist with a master degree on Women's Studies. The main focus of her research is the consequenses of gender inequality and gender based violence on mental health. Additionally she is interested in psychosocial treatments of psychiatric disorders, community mental health, group psychotherapies and mental health promotion.

Allan Young is the Chair of Mood Disorders and is Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, UK (where he is also interim Vice-Dean for Academic Psychiatry). Professor Young is the cluster and theme lead in the Translational Therapeutics Cluster at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre. He is the clinical academic lead in the Psychological Medicine and Integrated Care Clinical Academic Group in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, where he is also a consultant psychiatrist and the head of the National Affective Disorders Service. Professor Young is a member of several editorial boards and professional and scientific societies. He is immediate Past-President of the International Society for Affective Disorders, President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology and the immediate Past-Chair of the Special Committee for Psychopharmacology of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is also a trustee of the patient and family charity, Bipolar UK, and an independent academic unit, The Drug Safety Research Unit. Professor Young’s research interests focus on the causes of, and treatments for, severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and several books about psychopharmacology and affective disorders.

Professor Susan Young, BSc (Hons), DClinPsy, PhD, CSi, AFBPS, is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist, and a practitioner neuropsychologist. Since leaving clinical academia at the end of 2017, Susan has worked full time in private practice as the director of Psychology Services Limited (www.psychology-services.uk.com), providing psycho-educational materials, resources and clinical/forensic services relating to the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with mental health problems and/or neurodevelopmental disorders. Susan’s previous employers included Kings College London (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience), Imperial College London (Centre for Psychiatry), the South London and Maudsley Mental Health Trust (Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals) and West London Mental Health Trust (Broadmoor Hospital). Susan is involved in international research collaborations and has published over 170 articles in peer-reviewed research papers, books, book chapters, assessment tools and treatment programmes. These include the ACE/ACE+ clinical assessments of ADHD in children and adults (available in 22 languages), the Diagnostic Autism Spectrum Interview [DASI – available in 5 languages] and five cognitive behavioural therapy programmes developed for people of all ages who have cognitive, emotional, social and/or behavioural problems. She regularly runs training courses in these tools and programmes.