医学 | SCI期刊专刊信息3条

全文截稿: 2019-09-01

影响因子: 2.851

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 医学 - 3区

  • 小类 : 听力学与言语病理学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 神经科学 - 4区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-and-language

Recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in the ability of neuroscience to characterize and influence brain circuits that drive cognition and behavior, including within the language system. Noninvasive neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and different forms of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) have emerged as especially powerful and useful tools, both for interrogating intact language centers experimentally and for promoting recovery in patients with language deficits. Importantly, noninvasive neuromodulation techniques can be combined readily with cutting-edge advances in brain imaging, cortical neurophysiology, and network neuroscience in order to make increasingly sophisticated inferences about the structure-function relationships that underlie language processing, the mechanisms by which neurologic disorders negatively impact communication ability and the ways in which novel brain stimulation interventions may ameliorate these deficits. In this special issue, we will explore how technologies like TMS and tES are being currently employed to help establish causal relationships between the neural processes and language functions and examine how these tools can be paired synergistically with other emerging and rapidly accelerating methodologic and theoretical approaches. We will also present promising evidence that suggests that noninvasive neuromodulation tools may be soon ready to be employed clinically in order to enhance recovery from aphasia, either in the context of stroke or neurodegenerative disorders.

全文截稿: 2019-12-31

影响因子: 6.306

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 医学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 免疫学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 神经科学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-behavior-and-immunity

Amassing evidence has described a bidirectional relationship between inflammation and metabolic dysfunction that not only contributes to risk for major medical illnesses, but also likely affects the brain to contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms. Indeed, a number of patients afflicted with neurologic and/or psychiatric illnesses exhibit signs of increased inflammation that is often co-morbid with high body mass index (BMI) and/or evidence of metabolic disturbances such as dyslipidemia or insulin resistance. In addition, high peripheral or central levels of inflammatory markers and/or high BMI has been associated with poor treatment outcomes in psychiatric/neurologic patients. Obesity and metabolic disturbances have risen to epidemic rates, and neuropsychiatric illnesses such as depression are considered to be some of the largest contributors to global disability. Therefore, a more refined understanding of the respective contributions of inflammation and metabolism to symptoms of neuropsychiatric illness will provide opportunities for novel treatments and preventative strategies. This Special Issue will highlight bidirectional relationships between inflammation and metabolism and their role in the pathophysiology and treatment of psychiatric and neurologic disorders, as well as in behavioral symptoms that are associated with medical illnesses and their treatments.

Specifically, this issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity solicits original research or review articles on topics including, but not restricted to, the role of immune and metabolic interactions in cognition, reward and emotional processing; depression, fatigue or neurodegenerative disease; the influence of circadian changes, diet or exercise; and relation to medical illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer or HIV. Research related to metabolism may be broadly defined (e.g. biomarkers and processes related to metabolic disorders; interventions or lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise; cellular metabolism and mitochondrial function), and all manuscripts should include measurement of (or discussion of for reviews) at least one aspect of inflammation or the immune system.

全文截稿: 2020-05-31

影响因子: 4.907

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 医学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 行为科学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 神经科学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cortex

One century after Liepmann’s seminal works on apraxia, numerous studies have been conducted to understand the nature of this disorder. To date, praxis abilities are explored using different theoretical and methodological approaches, ranging from cognitive to neuroanatomical ones. How do these approaches contribute to our understanding of apraxia?

This special issue offers an opportunity to the authors to share their views on apraxia by means of theoretical or empirical papers with the aim to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of what apraxia is (and what it is not).