Editorial Board

Updated November 2021

Any views expressed are the editors’ own and do not necessarily represent the views of their institution.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Marina R. Picciotto
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Email: JN_EIC@sfn.org

Features Editor

Senior Editors

Dr. James Bisley
Department of Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles
10833 Le Conte Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
University Profile
Email: jbisley@mednet.ucla.edu

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Jeffrey Diamond
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
35 Convent Drive
Bldg. 35A, Room 3E-621
Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
NIH Profile
Email: diamondj@ninds.nih.gov

Sections:

Cellular/Molecular
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Jay A. Gottfried
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St.
3 West Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
University Profile
NCBI Profile
Email: jaygottf@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Neurobiology of Disease
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Gavan McNally
School of Psychology
UNSW Sydney
Sydney NSW
Australia
Email: g.mcnally@unsw.edu.au

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Dan H. Sanes
Center for Neural Science
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 USA
NCBI Profile
Email: dhs1@nyu.edu

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Cellular/Molecular
Development/Plasticity/Repair
Neurobiology of Disease
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Ruth S. Slack
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
451 Smyth Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5 Canada
University Profile
NCBI Profile
Email: rslack@uottawa.ca

Sections:

Cellular/Molecular
Neurobiology of Disease

 

Dr. Ivan Toni
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
University Profile
NCBI Profile
Google Scholar Profile
Email: ivan.toni@donders.ru.nl

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Systems/Circuits

 

Dr. Catherine S. Woolley
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
2205 Tech Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208 USA
University Profile
Email: cwoolley@northwestern.edu

Sections:

Cellular/Molecular
Development/Plasticity/Repair
Neurobiology of Disease
Systems/Circuits
 

Reviewing Editors

Dr. Bruno Averbeck
Section on Learning and Decision Making (SLDM)
NIMH/NIH
Interests: reinforcement learning, basal ganglia, frontal-striatal systems, prefrontal cortex, learning, cognition, learning theory, dopamine, amygdala, striatum, decision making

 

Dr. Farran Briggs
Department of Neuroscience
University of Rochester
Interests: visual system anatomy and physiology, lateral geniculate nucleus, V1, neuronal circuitry, attention neurophysiology

 

Dr. Heather Cameron
National Institute of Mental Health
Interests: Neurogenesis, hippocampus, dentate gyrus, granule cells, stress, glucocorticoids, anxiety, depression, motivation

 

Dr. Jianhua Cang
Department of Biology and Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Interests: visual neuroscience, early visual processing, experience-dependent development, critical period plasticity, neural circuits, superior colliculus, visual cortex, rodents and tree shrews

 

Dr. Jonah Chan
Department of Neurology
Division of Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology
University of California, San Francisco, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Interests: Glia, myelination, myelin repair, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, differentiation, multiple sclerosis, chronic hypoxia, peripheral neuropathies, nerve injury

 

Dr. Jun Chen
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests: stroke, traumatic brain injury, vascular dementia, white matter injury, cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s disease, neuroinflammation, microglia, macrophages, brain repair, demyelination, remyelination, blood-brain barrier damage, endothelia cells

 

Dr. Ruth Anne Eatock
Department of Neurobiology
The University of Chicago
Interests: sensory transduction, early vestibular and auditory processing, voltage-gated ion channels, synaptic transmission, electrophysiological differentiation, patch clamping

 

Dr. Elana Zion Golumbic
Gonda Center for Brain Research
Bar Ilan University
Interests: Human Cognitive Neuroscience, Real-world neuroscience, Speech Processing, Attention, Rhythm and Timing, Dynamic and Multisensory Perception

 

Dr. Aidan Horner
Department of Psychology
University of York
Interests: Memory, forgetting, consolidation, spatial navigation, decision-making, vision, amnesia, priming, hippocampus, cognitive neuroscience, open research

 

Dr. Jenny Hsieh
Department of Biology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Interests: induced pluripotent stem cell, neurodevelopment, neurogenesis, regenerative medicine, epilepsy, stem cell therapy, transcriptional/epigenetic regulation

 

Dr. Thorsten Kahnt
Department of Neurology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Interests: Cognitive and computational neuroscience, decision-making, reward, olfaction, associative and reinforcement learning, dopamine, orbitofrontal cortex, midbrain, striatum, hippocampus

 

Dr. Artur Kania
Neural Circuit Development Laboratory
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
Interests: Developmental neurobiology, axon guidance, neuronal migration, intracellular signalling, neuronal biology, neuronal connectivity, motor neurons, projection neurons, neural circuits, nociception

 

Dr. Mary Kay Lobo
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests: Basal ganglia, reward circuit, striatum, nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum, transcriptome, mitochondria, stress, drug abuse, repetitive behaviors

 

Dr. Anita Lüthi
Department of Fundamental Neurosciences
University of Lausanne
Interests: Mechanisms and functions of sleep, Sleep disorders, Thalamocortical rhythms, Ascending arousal systems, Ion channels, Electrophysiology in vivo and in vitro, Polysomnography, Opto- and chemogenetics, Biosensors, Rodent learning behavior

 

Dr. Margaret M. McCarthy
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests: Sex difference, preoptic area, amygdala, microglia, synapses, play, steroids, hormones, progesterone, estradiol, estrogens, hypoxic ischemia, autism, sex behavior, endocannabinoids, epigenetics, neuroinflammation, development, cerebellum, neuroimmunology, neurological disorders, brain injury

 

Dr. David McKemy
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Interests: pain, nociception, thermosensation, spinal cord, trigeminal ganglia, dorsal root ganglia, ion channels, allodynia, hyperalgesia, sensitization, sensory signaling

 

Dr. Tirin Moore
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Interests: Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual Neuroscience, Perception and Cognition, Prefrontal Cortex, Electrophysiology, Psychophysics, Neural Circuits

 

Dr. Ralph A. Nixon
Nathan S. Kline Institute
Interests: Endosomal–lysosomal trafficking, endocytosis, lysosome regulation, lysosomal disorders, autophagy, calpain-calpastatin system, axon structure and function, axonopathies, axonal transport, neurofilament proteins, neuronal cytoskeleton, aging-related neurodegenerative disease, mouse models of disease, therapeutic approaches and therapies for dementia

 

Dr. Jonas Obleser
Department of Psychology
University of Lübeck
Interests: neural oscillations, neural dynamics, attention, perception, executive functions, cognition, behavior, psychophysics, stimulus statistics, audition, speech, language, aging, hearing loss

 

Dr. Hans Op de Beeck
Department of Brain and Cognition
KU Leuven
Interests: cognitive/sensory/systems neuroscience, perception, perceptual learning, psychophysics, learning and memory, vision in animals: rodents and monkeys, neurodevelopmental disorders

 

Dr. Anne-Marie Oswald
Department of Neurobiology
The University of Chicago
Interests: Sensory systems, cortical circuits, synaptic plasticity, olfaction, inhibitory interneurons, learning and memory

 

Dr. Linda Overstreet-Wadiche
Department of Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmimgham
Interests: synaptic transmission, adult neurogenesis, dentate gyrus, synaptic inhibition, interneurons

 

Dr. Daniela Schiller
Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Emotion, cognition, affective/behavioral/social neuroscience, decision making, learning, memory, neuroimaging (fMRI), psychophysiology, behavioral testing, psychopharmacology

 

Dr. Kevin J. Staley
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Interests: cellular electrophysiology, epilepsy, hippocampal inhibitory synaptic physiology, ion-sensitive fluorophores, long-term EEG analysis, neuronal chloride homeostasis, organotypic cultures

 

Dr. Mark Stopfer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Interests: Insect, invertebrate, olfaction, gustation, taste, odor, circuits, information

 

Dr. Kate Wassum
School of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: behavioral neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neural circuits, learning and memory, reward, motivation, decision making, addiction

 

Dr. Nicole Wenderoth
Department of Health Sciences and Technology
ETH Zürich
Interests: Sensorimotor control, sensorimotor learning, motor behavior, motor fatigability, motor rehabilitation, action observation, motor imagery, non-invasive neuromodulation, neurofeedback, cortical excitation-inhibition balance, fMRI connectomics in humans and rodents, brain networks, large-scale brain dynamics

 

Dr. Donna M. Wilcock
Department of Physiology
University of Kentucky
Interests: Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, neurovascular unit, microglia, neuroinflammation, astrocytes, cerebrovascular disease, stroke, ischemia, hemorrhage, cytokines, neurodegeneration, biomarkers, pericytes, vascular cognitive impairment and dementia, Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics

* Serving in a personal capacity

Associate Editors

Woo-Young Ahn
Regina Armstrong
Mark Baccei
Bernard Balleine
Til Ole Bergmann
Stephanie Borgland
Laura Bradfield
Andreas Burkhalter
Erin Calipari
Donna Calu
Jianhua Cang
Yu-Qing Cao
Joseph F. Cheer
Marlene Cohen
Michael Cohen
Joanne Conover
Laura Corbit
Andre Cravo
Carsten Culmsee
Mauricio R. Delgado
Hanneke den Ouden
Mingzhou Ding
Yan Dong
Julie Duque
Gregory Dussor
Marla Feller
Lesley K. Fellows
Antonio Ferrer-Montiel
Alfredo Fontanini
Christie D. Fowler
Michael J. Frank
Rita Fuchs
Nicholas Furl
Gianluca Gallo
Lindsey Glickfeld
Shannon Gourley
Christina Gremel
Saskia Haegens
Simon Hanslmayr
Gesa Hartwigsen
Corey Harwell
Yu Hayashi
Matthew R. Hayes
Mary Heinricher
Molly Henry
Jochen Herms
Jens-Max Hopf
Susan Ingram
Mihaela Iordanova
Ru-Rong Ji
Bong-Kiun Kaang
Thorsten Kahnt
Josef Kapfhammer
Thomas Kash
Bradley Kerr
Baljit Khakh
Satoshi Kida
Hackjin Kim
Peter Kok
Conny Kopp-Scheinpflug
Brice Kuhl
Julie Lefebvre
Angelika Lingnau
David M. Lovinger
Arianna Maffei
Nathan Marchant
Hugo Merchant
Courtney Miller
Marisela Morales
Maria Concette Morrone
John Murray
Vishnu Murty
Nandakumar Narayanan
Christopher Pack
Marius Peelen
Markus Ploner
Gabriela Popescu
Theodore Price
Erin Rich
Jocelyn Richard
Peter Rudebeck
Viji Santhakumar
Hyojung Seo
Juan Song
Thomas A. Stalnaker
Alexis Stranahan
János Szabadics
Arielle Tambini
Katalin Toth
Vincent Tropepe
Kuei Y. Tseng
Anastassios Tzingounis
Stephen Van Hooser
Rufin VanRullen
Felix Viana
Timothy Vickery
Rufin Vogels
Kaspar Vogt
Kerry Walker
Lu-Yang Wang
Michael Wegner
Catherine Weisz
Andrew Westbrook
Maria Wimber
Catharine Antonia Winstanley
Geoffrey Woodman
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Ying Zhang
Hui Zheng
 

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