Volume

9, 2 issues

Latest issue

8:2 online 20 December 2022

Next issue

9:1 scheduled for June 2023

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2015

ISSN print

2213-6304

ISSN online

2213-6312
Open Access
Online Only

Aims & Scope

Brain Plasticity is an open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed Original Articles, Reviews and Short Communications on all aspects of neurogenesis, gliogenesis and synaptic plasticity, from development to the adult. This includes research articles or reviews on modifications to neural circuits in the developing and adult brain, whether by learning or physical activity, spine formation, changes in neural structure, changes in neural networks, new cell division, as well as response of the CNS to experimental injuries, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. Papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches on specification and function at the molecular and cellular levels, neural circuits, systems and behavioral levels are encouraged.

Editorial Board

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Henriette van Praag, PhD
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine,
and Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic University

Jupiter, FL
USA
Email: h.vanpraag[at]protonmail.com

Bernard Zalc, MD
Sorbonne University, ICM
Paris
France
Email:
boris.zalc{at}icm-institute{dot}org

Xinyu Zhao, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
USA
Email:
xzhao{at}waisman{dot}wisc.edu

Review Editor

Bryan W. Luikart, PhD
Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH
USA

Editorial Manager

Rasjel van der Holst, IOS Press, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: brainplasticity@iospress.com

Editorial Board

James Aimone
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque
USA

Matthew Peter Anderson
Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
University of California, San Francisco, USA
USA

Helena Mira Aparicio
CNM-Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid
Spain

Angelique Bordey
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven
USA

Henning Boecker
Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn
Germany

Tal Burstyn-Cohen
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Israel

Gyorgy Buzsaki
New York University, New York
USA

Jonah R. Chan
University of California, San Francisco, USA
USA

Brian R. Christie
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Canada

Jacqueline N. Crawley
MIND Institute, University of California Davis, Sacramento
USA

Charles ffrench-Constant
The University of Edinburgh, Edingburgh
United Kingdom

Max Cynader
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Canada

Hugues Duffau
The Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier
France

Steve Dunnett
Cardiff University, Cardiff
United Kingdom

Amelia J. Eisch
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
USA

Ben Emery
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Australia

Evandro F. Fang
Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine
University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital,
Lørenskog, Norway

James Fawcett
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Robin Franklin
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Andreas Frick
Neurocentre Magendie – u 862, Bordeaux
France

Jonas Frisen
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Sweden

Fred Gage
Salk Institute, La Jolla
USA

Vittorio Gallo
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington
USA

Jenny Hsieh
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
USA

Johan Jakobsson
Lund University, Lund
Sweden

Sebastian Jessberger
University of Zurich, Zurich
Switzerland

Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Jibran Y. Khokhar
Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Eric Klann
New York University, New York
USA

Anna Klintsova
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
USA

Mariah Lelos
Cardiff University, Cardiff
United Kingdom

Dieter (Chichung) Lie
Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen
Germany

Wange Lu
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
USA

Paul Lucassen
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Giovanna Mallucci
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Alysson Muotri
University of California San Diego, San Diego
USA

Kinichi Nakashima
Kyushu University, Fukuoka
Japan

Kimberly Nixon
College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
USA

Ozioma Okonkwo
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
USA

Jack Parent
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
USA

Giselle Petzinger
Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
USA

Sam Pleasure
UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco
USA

Stefano Pluchino
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
United Kingdom

William Richardson
UCL, London
United Kingdom

Anne Rosser
Cardiff University, Cardiff
United Kingdom

Amar Sahay
Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA

Alessandro Sale
Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa
Italy

David V. Schaffer
University of California, Berkeley
USA

Alejandro F. Schinder
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires
Argentina

Sama F. Sleiman
Natural Sciences Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos,
Lebanon

Hongjun Song
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
USA

Wendy A. Suzuki
New York University, New York
USA

John Svaren
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
USA

Nicolas Toni
University of Lausanne, Laussanne
Switzerland

Beate Winner
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen
Germany

Zhengui Xia
University of Washington, Seattle
USA

Sonata Suk-yu Yau
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom

Chun-Li Zhang
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Houston
USA

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT

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SUBMISSION POLICY

By submitting my article to this journal, I agree to the Author Copyright Agreement, the IOS Press Ethics Policy, and the IOS Press Privacy Policy.

The Journal of Brain Plasticity is an open access journal. Published papers are currently not subjected to an open access fee. They will be published freely available, under the default Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license, for download at no charge to the authors. If your article is funded by an organization that mandates CC BY, then publishing under the CC BY 4.0 license is available on request.

Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Any possible conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, related to the submitted work must be clearly indicated in the manuscript.

The article type (Research paper, Review paper, Editorial, Case Report, Letter to the Editor, etc) should be clearly mentioned in the cover letter to help the editorial process.

This journal operates with single-blind peer review. If the author prefers double-blind peer review, then please submit the manuscript excluding the author listing and make sure the document is anonymized, and list the authors and affiliations only in the cover letter for the Editor.

Note that the manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included. This file can be a Word document, a PDF, or an embedded zip file (.rar) if separate high resolution figures or a supplemental file such as a video are also to be included with the submission (the file size maximum for a video is 25MB). If the video is too large to submit, please contact brainplasticity@iospress.com to arrange a file transfer. For more information about submitting supplementary data scroll down this page to the header “Supplementary Data.”

Resubmissions should include the manuscript number in the cover letter. The author's replies to the reviewer comments should be included within the revised manuscript itself (at the top). The revised paper should always be a Word document.

ETHICS POLICIES AND PATIENT PERMISSIONS

Procedures involving experiments on human subjects should be in accord with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done or in accord with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. The author must state compliance in the cover letter and in the Methods section of the article.

Procedures involving experimentation on animal subjects should be in accord with either the guide of the institution in which the experiments were done, or with the National Research Council’s guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. The author must state compliance in the cover letter and in the Methods section of the article.

Preferably patients in figures should be unrecognizable. Authors are responsible for obtaining patient permission for use of the material from all recognizable participants in photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Journal or on the journal’s website. A statement that permission was granted by the patient must accompany the figure legend. Do not use study participants' names, initials, or hospital numbers anywhere in the manuscript (including figures).

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Research Reports

Organization and style of presentation

  1. Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to consult a professional English language editing service or a native English speaker prior to submission.
  2. Manuscripts should be double spaced throughout with wide margins (2.5 cm or 1 in), including the abstract and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should include a page number centered at the bottom. Do not number headings or subheadings (use all caps, italics, then underline). Footnotes should be avoided.
  3. There are no page or word limits for Research Reports but manuscripts over 10,000 words (Introduction through Discussion) should be approved by the Editor-in-Chief before submission.
  4. Manuscripts should be organized in the following order with headings and subheadings typed on a separate line, without indentation.

Title page
- Title (should be clear, descriptive and concise)
- Full name(s) of author(s)
- Full affiliation(s). Delineate affiliations with lowercase letters.
- Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
- Running title (45 characters or less, including spaces)
- Complete correspondence address, including telephone number, fax number and e-mail address

Leave the author information blank if double-blind peer review is wished for and anonymize your document, but do include the information in the cover letter.

If any author is also a member of the Brain Plasticity Editorial Board, this should be declared in the Conflict of Interest Section (see instructions in the section for Conflict of Interest)

Changes in Authorship

When submitting the manuscript the author listing and order should be final. If any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list does need to be made after submission, this can be done only before acceptance and with the Editor’s approval. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (1) the reason for the change in author list and (2) written confirmation from all authors, including the affected author, that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.

Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in an Erratum.

Please read the IOS Press authorship policy for further information.

Abstract and Keywords
-The abstract for research papers should follow the "structured abstract" format:
BACKGROUND: 
OBJECTIVE:
METHODS: 
RESULTS:
CONCLUSIONS:
The abstract should try to be no longer than 250 words.
- For other papers such as Reviews, the abstract should be clear, descriptive, and self-explanatory, and no longer than 250 words.
- Include a list of 4-10 keywords. These keywords should be terms from the MeSH database.
- Note that ALL articles (except book reviews and letters to the editor) must include an abstract.

Introduction

Materials and Methods
If applicable to the study, Ethics statements and/or patient permissions must be included in the Materials and Methods section (see top of this page “ETHICS POLICIES AND PATIENT PERMISSIONS”

Results

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Include individuals or companies which have assisted with your study, including advisors, administrative support and suppliers who may have donated or given materials used in the study.

If there are no acknowledgments, then do still include this section and insert: "The authors have no acknowledgments to report."

Funding

Include all funding sources for the study. If there is no funding involved, then do still include this section and insert: "The authors have no funding to report."

Conflict of Interest

All affiliations or financial involvement (e.g., employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants, patents received or pending, royalties) with any organization or entity with a financial interest in, or in financial competition with, the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript must be disclosed in the submitted manuscript.

If there is no conflict of interest to declare, do still include this section and insert "The authors have no conflict of interest to report". If an author is also on the Editorial Board of this journal, the following statement should be included in this section: "<AUTHOR> is an Editorial Board member of this journal, but was not involved in the peer-review process nor had access to any information regarding its peer review.''

References
Authors are requested to use the Vancouver citation style. Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references at the end of the manuscript. List the references in the order in which they appear in the text. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed as (author(s), unpublished data). If an article has a DOI, this should be provided after the page number details. The number is added after the letters 'doi'. Manuscripts will not be considered if they do not conform to the Vancouver citation guidelines.

References must be listed in Vancouver style:
[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93-113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.
[6] Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. In press 2002.
[7] Fletcher D, Wagstaff CRD. Organisational psychology in elite sport: its emergence, application and future. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2009;10(4):427-34. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.009.

Datasets and Data Articles

All datasets and data articles referenced in your manuscript should be cited in the main reference list of your article (not in a separate box or in the article text).

Tables
- Number according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all tables.
- Provide each table on a separate page of the manuscript after the references.
- Include a brief and self-explanatory title with any explanations essential to the understanding of the table given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.
- Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.

- Citations in the tables should be numbered and included in the Reference list.

Figure Legends

The author is required to have obtained patient permission from all recognizable participants in photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Journal or on the journal’s website. A statement that permission was granted by the patient must accompany the figure legend. Do not use study participants' names, initials, or hospital numbers in the legend, figure, or anywhere in the manuscript.

Figures
- Number the figures according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all figures.
- Figures should preferably be formatted in TIF or EPS format. JPG is also acceptable.
- Figures should be designed with the format of JHD in mind and preferable sized as they will appear when printed. A single column of the journal is 77mm and two columns are 165mm.
- Figures should be at 300 dpi or higher and be cropped to include the figure only (no blank space). CMYK is preferred for color figures.
- On figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales to avoid problems if the figure needs to be reduced.
- Each illustration should have a brief self-explanatory legend that should be typed separately from the figure in the section of the manuscript following the tables.
- Costs for color figures in the print version of the journal are as follows: 1 figure - 650 euro; 2 figures - 900 euro; 3 figures - 1050 euro; 4 figures - 1200 euro; 5 figures - 1350 euro. Cost for each additional color figure will be 150 euro. Color figures are free in the electronic version of the journal. You may opt to send in both black/white figures for print, and color figures for the online PDF (please adjust the figure legend appropriately).

Supplementary Data
Supplementary material is peer-reviewed material directly relevant to the conclusion of a paper that cannot be included in the printed version for reasons of space or medium (for example, movie clips or sound files). The supplement will be available for download from the publisher's content library site at the time of publication and will be made available in the format in which it was provided.

Supplementary material should be included at the end of the main manuscript at the time of submission. In the case of sound/movie files, these can be submitted separately to the Managing Editor (brainplasticity@iospress.com) at the time of submission. Supplementary tables and figures must have a separate numbering system from that used for tables and figures that appear in the print version of the paper (the first figure displayed should be labeled "Supplementary Figure 1", the first table "Supplementary Table 1", and so on). References should also be cited in supplements started with [1] and listed separately.

Supplementary files are limited to 10MB, except videos which can be up to 25MB.

Supplementary material for Short Communications is limited to 500 words and 1 table or figure.

Review Articles
Review Articles should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue. Review Articles should be prepared as detailed above for a Research Report, omitting Introduction through Discussion, and include a conclusion. An abstract must also be included. The length of the Review Article is at the discretion of the author but should be within reasonable limits. The Editor-in-Chief can be consulted regarding reviews of unusual length (>10,000 words).

Systematic reviews or meta-analyses that include a methods section are typically considered as a Research report and should be formatted as such.

Short Communications
A short communication is an article of original scholarship of unusual interest of less than 1500 words (not including references). An abstract of 100 words or less should be included with no subdivison of text into sections. References should be formatted as above. A total of two tables and/or figures are allowed.

Hypotheses
A hypothesis article should be a balanced and insightful consideration of a topic with novel hypotheses well presented and supported. The article should be prepared as a Research Report but without Methods or Results sections.

Book Reviews
Book reviews should be 750 words or less and without sections. Suggestions can be proposed to the Editors-in-Chief.

Letters to the Editor
Authors can submit comments of 1000 words or less concerning prior articles published in JHD to the Editors-in-Chief through the Editorial Office (brainplasticity@iospress.com).

Commentaries
Commentaries can be around 1000 words with an abstract and no other subdivisions.

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE

In cover letter:
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Name, postal address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
- Name of the preferred Editor-in-Chief with expertise in the area of the study (if no Editor-in-Chief is named, the Editorial Office will assign the submission).
- Statement that all authors have contributed to the work, agree with the presented findings, and that the work has not been published before nor is being considered for publication in another journal.
- Statement that procedures involving experiments on human subjects are done in accord with the ethical standards of the Committee on Human Experimentation of the institution in which the experiments were done or in accord with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975.
- Statement that procedures involving experimentation on animal subjects are done in accord with either the guide of the institution in which the experiments were done, or with the National Research Council's guide for the care and use of laboratory animals.

In manuscript:
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Compliance with guidelines on human experimentation as well as protocol approval by a local Institutional Review Board should be specified.
- Compliance with guidelines of animal experimentation as well as protocol approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee should be specified.
- Statement of all financial and material support for this research and any potential conflicts should also be clearly identified in the the acknowledgment and Conflict of Interest sections. If there is no Conflict-of-Interest then still add this statement.

Resubmissions
Resubmissions should include the manuscript number and a reference that the paper is a revision. The point-by-point response to the previous reviews should be included at the top of the manuscript. 

Financial Disclosure
All affiliations with or financial involvement (e.g., employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, royalties) with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or in financial competition with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript are completely disclosed in the letter of submission.

All financial and material support for this research and work are clearly identified in the manuscript including listing of support specified in the letter of submission that might constitute or give the appearance of influencing the findings, based on the judgment of the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Associate Editor handling the review of the manuscript.

PROOFS AND PRE-PRESS

The corresponding author will receive a PDF proof and is asked to check this proof carefully (the publisher will execute a cursory check only). Corrections other than printer's errors, however, should be avoided. Costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors.

The corrected proof is published online in the journal’s pre-press module shortly after the proof is created and author corrections are implemented. This is not the final version. As soon as the article is assigned to an issue, the final bibliographic information will be added and the pre-press file will be replaced by the updated, final version. Pre-press articles are fully citable by using their DOI number.

Note: Any changes to authors or title after acceptance should also be sent to the editorial office (brainplasticity@iospress.com) so our records can be updated. After acceptance, any additions or deletions to the list of authors MUST be approved by an Editor-in-Chief, and all authors on the manuscript must also sign off on the changes. Please see the section "Changes in Authorship" above for more information.

OPEN ACCESS

Brain Plasticity is a fully open access journal. The open access option helps authors to comply with major funder mandates. All open access articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC). More information about open access in IOS Press journals can be found in the IOS Press Open Library.

Policy regarding the NIH Public Access Policy mandate (PubMed Central)
All articles published in Brain Plasticity are automatically transferred to Pubmed Central by the publisher within 1 month from the final publication date.

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Copyright of your article
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that they have read and agreed to the terms of the IOS Press Author Copyright Agreement.

Article sharing
Authors of journal articles are permitted to self-archive and share their work through institutional repositories, personal websites, and preprint servers. Authors have the right to use excerpts of their article in other works written by the authors themselves, provided that the original work is properly cited. The consent for sharing an article, in whole or in part, depends on the version of the article that is shared, where it is shared, and the copyright license under which the article is published. Please refer to the IOS Press Article Sharing Policy for further information.

Quoting from other publications
Authors, when quoting from someone else's work or when considering reproducing figures or tables from a book or journal article, should make sure that they are not infringing a copyright. Although in general authors may quote from other published works, permission should be obtained from the holder of the copyright if there will be substantial extracts or reproduction of tables, plates, or other figures. If the copyright holder is not the author of the quoted or reproduced material, it is recommended that the permission of the author should also be sought. Material in unpublished letters and manuscripts is also protected and must not be published unless permission has been obtained. Submission of a paper will be interpreted as a statement that the author has obtained all the necessary permission. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.

COMPLIMENTARY COPY AND PURCHASE

Complimentary copy
The corresponding author of a contribution to this journal will receive a pdf copy of their published article on release.

How to order reprints, a pdf file, journals, or IOS Press books
An order form for reprints, additional journal copies or a non-watermarked pdf file will be provided along with the pdf proof.
If you wish to order reprints of an earlier published article, please contact the publisher for a quotation. IOS Press, Fax: +31 20 6870039. Email: editorial@iospress.nl.

An author is entitled to 25% discount on IOS Press books. See Author's Discount (25%) on all IOS Press book publications.

Please visit the IOS Press Authors page for further information.

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Peer Review Policy

Brain Plasticity adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors and reviewers [https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers]. Our guidelines should be read in conjunction with this broader guidance. All studies must be conducted to a high ethical standard and must adhere to local regulations and standards for gaining scrutiny and approval. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.

Brain Plasticity operates a rigorous, timely, single-blinded peer review process (double-blind on request). After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, manuscripts submitted to the journal will be assessed for suitability for publication in the journal by the Editors-in-Chief. Manuscripts that are deemed unsuitable may be rejected without peer review. Manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review are sent to appropriate anonymous referees (a minimum of two) for confidential review. Referee reports are then assessed by the Editor-in-Chief, who will send a decision letter to the author along with the anonymized referee reports.

The initial decision will be one of the following: rejection, acceptance without revision, or potentially acceptable after minor or major revisions. Revised manuscripts will then be appraised by the Editor-in-Chief, who may seek the opinion of referees (prior or new) before making a final decision. Once approved this decision is then conveyed to the author along with the referee reports. Once accepted manuscripts are normally published on-line without delay and appear in the next available print issue.

The Editors-in-Chief have ultimate responsibility for what is published in the journal. Authors may appeal decisions by contacting the Editors-in-Chief (at brainplasticity@iospress.com). Authors will be informed in writing of the result of their appeal.

Call for Papers

 

Special Issue on Exercise and Neural Plasticity in Parkinson’s Disease

A special issue of Brain Plasticity is planned, focusing on the topic of “Exercise and Neural Plasticity in Parkinson’s Disease”. 

This special issue will be guest-edited by Professors Giselle Petzinger (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, https://profiles.sc-ctsi.org/giselle.petzinger ) and Michael Jakowec (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/michael-jakowec/ ). Both review or research papers are invited, and all publication fees will be waived.

This issue is now open for submissions, with the deadline for receipt of contributions being February 29, 2024. All articles will be reviewed promptly and published upon acceptance on an ongoing basis in pre-press format. The target publication date for the special issue is Summer 2024. 

The following papers are in preparation for this Special Issue:

  1. Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity and its role in Resilience and Compensation in Parkinson’s disease,   G. Petzinger, M. Jakowec and D. Holschneider
  2. The Role of Exercise in Mediating Functional Connectivity in Animal Models of Parkinson’s disease, D. Holschneider
  3. The Role of Lactate in Mediating The Metabolic Link between Physical Activity and Neuroplasticity,   M. Jakowec 
  4. Better Motor Performance predicts Improved Cognitive Function In Parkinson’s disease, G. Petzinger, R. Foreman, D. Schiehser and D, Petkus
  5. Exploring the untapped potential of the association between gut microbiota and aerobic fitness status in people living with Parkinson’s disease, K. Zapanta, T. Schroeder and B. Fisher
  6. Promoting Brain Health through Physical Activity in Diverse Communities and Parkinson’s disease, L. Fukuzato, J. Diaz and C. Kaplan

Brain Plasticity is a fully open access journal, which is included in PubMed Central and all content will be indexed and visible in PubMed. When submitting, please state in your cover letter that this article is submitted https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/bpl/default2.aspx  for the special issue “Exercise and Neural Plasticity in Parkinson’s Disease”.

Submission deadline: February 29, 2024

We look forward to receiving your submission! If you have queries, please get in touch.

Dr. Giselle Petzinger  petzinge@med.usc.edu
Dr. Michael Jakowec  mjakowec@surgery.usc.edu
Rasjel van der Holst, Publisher http://www.iospress.nl/brain-plasticity/  r.holst@iospress.nl 

 

Special Issue on Nutrition and Neural Plasticity

A special issue of Brain Plasticity (BPL) is planned, focusing on the topic of “Nutrition and Neural Plasticity”, focusing on how different nutritional components and molecules can affect brain function, neural development, aging-related conditions, cognition, and behavior.

This special issue will be guest-edited by BPL Co-Editor-in-Chief Professor Henriette van Praag (Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Professor Evandro Fei Fang (Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway). Both review or research papers are invited, and all publication fees will be waived.

This issue is now open for submissions, with the deadline for receipt of contributions being February 29, 2024. All articles will be reviewed promptly and published upon acceptance on an ongoing basis in pre-press format. The target publication date for the special issue is Summer 2024.
Brain Plasticity is a fully open access journal, which is included in PubMed Central and all content will be indexed and visible in PubMed. When submitting, please state in your cover letter that this article is submitted for the special issue “Nutrition and Neural Plasticity.”

Submission deadline: February 29, 2024

We look forward to receiving your submission! If you have queries, please get in touch.

Henriette van Praag, PhD
Department of Biomedical Science 
Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter, FL USA
hvanpraag@health.fau.edu; h.vanpraag@protonmail.com

Evandro F. Fang, PhD 
Department of Clinical Molecular Biology 
University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital 
Lørenskog, Norway 
Emails: evandrofeifang@yahoo.com ; e.f.fang@medisin.uio.no

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