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Editors-in-Chief

Susan Sesack, Ph.D
University of Pittsburgh, USA
(she/her/hers)

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Ph.D
University of Bordeaux, France
(he/him/his)


Founding Editors-in-Chief

Laszlo Zaborszky, 
MD Ph.D
Rutgers University, USA

Karl Zilles, MD Ph.D
University of Düsseldorf, Deceased

Associate Editors

Jose L. Cantero, Ph.D
Pablo de Olavide University, Spain 
Keywords: aging, Alzheimer's disease, biomarkers, neuroimaging, brain oscillations

Dirk Feldmeyer, Prof Dr.
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Keywords: function of cortical microcircuits, neuronal microcircuits, synaptic function, barrel cortex

Stephanie J. Forkel, Ph.D
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 
Keywords: cognitive neuroimaging, connectivity, neurovariability, neurology, language

William Graves, Ph.D
Rutgers University, USA
Keywords: functional neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, reading, language

Erin Hecht, Ph.D
Harvard University, USA
Keywords: brain evolution, neuroimaging, canids, primates

Patrick Hof, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Keywords: quantitative neuropathology, comparative neuroanatomy, neuropsychiatric illnesses

Stephan Lammel, Ph.D
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Keywords: neural circuits, dopamine, reward, motivated behavior

Rogier Mars, Ph.D
University of Oxford, UK
Keywords: cognitive neuroscience, comparative neuroimaging, anatomical imaging, non-human primate imaging, functional MRI

Juan Mena Segovia, Ph.D
Rutgers University, USA
Keywords: basal ganglia; pedunculopontine; dopamine; acetylcholine; motor Learning; appetitive behavior; sleep; Parkinson’s disease.

Eva Mezey, MD
National Institutes of Health, USA
Keywords: adult stem cells, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, bone marrow-brain connections, neuroendocrinology

Saak Victor Ovsepian, Ph.D
University of Greenwich, UK
Keywords: synapse, gap junction, exocytosis, neurotransmission, ionotropic and metabotropic receptors, endocytosis, ion channels, receptor trafficking, SNARE complex, amino acid transporters

Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, Prof Dr.
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Keywords: cellular and molecular neuroanatomy, comparative neuroanatomy, neurotransmitter receptors, structural connectivity

Romain Quentin, Ph.D
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, France
Keywords: electrophysiology, cognitive computational neuroscience, working memory, learning, machine-learning

Kathleen Rockland, Ph.D
Boston University, USA
Keywords: axons, cerebral cortex, corticocortical connections, corticothalamic connections, feedback, microcircuitry, synapses, visual system

Marcello Rosa, Ph.D
Monash University, Australia
Keywords: neuroanatomy, cerebral cortex, neural connectivity, primates, comparative neuroscience, visual prostheses

Susan Sesack, Ph.D
University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Keywords: neuroanatomy, ultrastructure, monoamines, reward circuitry, systems neuroscience

Lee Shapiro, Ph.D
Texas A&M University, USA
Keywords: epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, hippocampus, neurogenesis, dentate gyrus, striatum, addiction, reward circuit, neuroinflammation, inflammation, electron microscopy, neuroanatomy

Chet Sherwood, Ph.D
George Washington University, USA
Keywords: evolutionary neuroscience, comparative neuroanatomy of the cerebral cortex in mammals.

Jochen Staiger, Prof Dr.
Universität Göttingen, Germany
Keywords: cortical microcircuits; GABAergic neurons; principal cells; somatosensory cortex; optogenetics; paired recordings; viral tract-tracing

Masahiko Takada, Dr.
Kyoto University, Japan
Keywords: in vivo gene transfer; motor control; cognitive behavior; anatomy; physiology

Hiromasa Takemura, Ph.D
National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
Keywords: visual system, white matter, diffusion MRI, tractography

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Ph.D
University of Bordeaux, France
Keywords: cognitive neuroscience, stroke, brain anatomy, connections and evolution

Sofie Valk, Dr.
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Keywords: cognitive neuroscience, brain organisation, genomic neuroimaging, comparative neuroscience, plasticity 

Advisory Board

Babak Ardekani, Ph.D - New York University - Orangeburg, NY, USA
Keywords: MRI, hippocampus, corpus callosum, ageing, Image processing and statistical analysis methods

 

Michal Ben-Shachar, Ph.D - Bar Ilan University - Ramat Gan, Israel
Keywords: language pathways, reading pathways, diffusion MRI, tractography

  

Elena Borra, Ph.D - University of Parma, Italy 
Keywords: neuroanatomy, motor control, cortical networks, grasping, comparative neuroscience, primates

 

György Buzsáki, Ph.D - New York University, NY, USA 
Keywords: brain rhythms, electrophysiology, hippocampus

  

Michael W. Cole, Ph.D - Rutgers Univeristy - Newark, NJ, USA  
Keywords: functional connectivity, instructed learning, cognitive control

  

Alvaro Duque, Ph.D – Yale Univeristy- New Haven, CT, USA 
Keywords: basal forebrain, cortical development, subplate
 

Chris Foulon, Ph.D – University College London, UK 
Keywords: MRI, stroke, automated lesion segmentation, lesion-symptom mapping, machine learning

 

Alessio Fracasso, Ph.D - University of Glasgow, UK 
Keywords: sensory-motor integration, visual system, high-field MRI/fMRI, neuroanatomy

 

Tamas F. Freund, Ph.D - Péter Pázmány Catholic University- Budapest, Hungary 
Keywords: cerebral cortex, hippocampus, neuronal networks, inhibition, GABA, interneurons

 

Patrick Friedrich, Ph.D - Forschungszentrum Jülich- Germany 
Keywords: hemispheric asymmetries, functional lateralization, evolution, individual differences 

 

Miguel Angel Garcia-Cabezas, Ph.D - University of Madrid, Spain 
Keywords: cerebral cortex, thalamus, connections, primate, and development

  

Stephen D. Ginsberg, Ph.D - New York Univeristy, Orangeburg, NY, USA 
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, selective vulnerability, single population RNA-seq, basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

  

Patrice Guyenet, Ph.D - University of Charlottesville, VA, USA 
Keywords: neural control of breathing, autonomic nervous system, lower brainstem, chemoreceptors

  

Erika Gyengesi, Ph.D - Western Sydney University, Australia 
Keywords: stereology, neuroinflammation, 3D morphology, neurodegeneration, glial activation 

  

Stephen J. Hanson, Ph.D - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA 
Keywords: connections, neuroimaging, graph theory

 

Jochen Herms, MD - Univeristy of Munich, Germany
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, dendritic spine pathology, 2 photon imaging, a-synucleinopathies, synaptic pathology

  

Claus C. Hilgetag, Ph.D - University of Hamburg, Germany 
Keywords: brain connectivity, computational neuroscience and lesion inferences

 

Imre Kalló, MD Ph.D - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 
Keywords: neuroendocrinology, hypothalamic regulation of reproduction, and metabolism, estrogen signalling in the brain, circadian regulation, basal forebrain functions

  

Hans-Otto Karnath, Prof. Dr. - University of Tübingen, Germany 
Keywords: cognitive neurology, neuropsychology, space perception, attention

 

Peter Kohler, Ph.D -York University, Toronto, Canada 
Keywords: visual neuroscience, functional brain imaging, fMRI, EEG

 

Jose L. Lanciego, MD - Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada, Pamplona, Spain 
Keywords: glucocerebrosidase, adeno-associated viral vectors, neuromorpholgy, neuroanatomical tract-tracing, non-human primates

 

Nikos Logothetis, Ph.D - University of Tübingen, Germany 
Keywords: system-neuroscience, self-organization of dynamic systems, brain-structure-interactions, neural-event related multistructure activities, memory consolidation

  

Joachim Lübke, Prof. Dr.  - Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany 
Keywords: neuronal network in the neocortex and hippocampus, synaptic organization of the brain, neurotransmitter receptors, synaptic proteins

  

Jeffrey Padberg, Ph.D - University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA 
Keywords: evolution, animal models, central nervous system, brain connectivity, neuroanatomy

  

Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D - Kent State University, OH, USA  
Keywords: comparative neuroanatomy, evolution, primate

  

Charles E. Ribak, Ph.D - University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 
Keywords: adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus, synaptic connections of the neuronal types in the dentate gyrus and the fine structure of microglial cells

  

Cyndi Schumann, Ph.D - University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA 
Keywords: amygdala, neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, psychosis), non-human primates, postmortem human brain 

  

Yoland Smith, Ph.D - Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA 
Keywords: basal ganglia, Parkinson's disease, neuroanatomy, electron microscopy, synaptic plasticity

  

James Tepper, Ph.D - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA 
Keywords: basal ganglia, striatum, substantia nigra, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy

  

Emmanuel Valjent, Ph.D - Univeristy of Montpellier, France 
Keywords: dopamine, basal ganglia, neural circuits, intracellular signaling

  

Sonja Vernes, Ph.D - Univeristy of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Keywords: genetics/neurogenetics, speech & language, gene/protein expression, vocal learning, animal models

  

Deniz Yilmazer-Hanke, MD Ph.D - University of Ulm, Germany
Keywords: amygdala, limbic system, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, neurovascular disease

  

Daniel S. Zahm, Ph.D - St. Louis University, MO, USA 
Keywords: basal forebrain, basal ganglia, brainstem, dopamine, drug abuse, and circuitry

 

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