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Cover picture: It has long been hypothesized that activated microglia migrate to lesions of the brain in a collective and highly directed manner. However, using an in vivo lesion model combined with acute in situ brain-slice techniques and time-lapse confocal videomicrography, we demonstrate that perilesional microglia migrate autonomously and stochastically in response to a focal brain lesion. The cover illustration represents time-lapse z-plane images collapsed into a two-dimensional projection and demonstrates nondirected migration of microglia (pseudocolored cells) in the vicinity of a focal brain lesion (vertical red line). Nonmigratory cells (in gray) are concentrated primarily at the lesion site. For additional details, see the article by Carbonell et al. in this issue (pages 7040-7047). Illustration by W. Shawn Carbonell.