Editorial Board

Updated November 2024

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

Editor-in-Chief

Sabine Kastner
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University

Senior Editors

Department of Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles 

Sections:

 Behavioral/Cognitive
 Systems/Circuits

 

   Jonathan Demb 
    Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
    Yale University

 Sections:

  Systems/Circuits
  Cellular/Molecular
  Neurobiology of Disease

 

 

   Alyson Fournier
   McGill University
 

 Sections:

  Cellular/Molecular
  Development/Plasticity/Repair

 

Jay A. Gottfried
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania


 

     Sections:

     Behavioral/Cognitive
     Neurobiology of Disease
     Systems/Circuits

 

Artur Kania
Neural Circuit Development Laboratory
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Sections:

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

 

Gavan McNally
School of Psychology
UNSW Sydney
Sydney NSW
Australia
 

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Systems/Circuits

 

Anna Christina Nobre
Department of Psychology
Yale University
 

Sections:

Behavioral/Cognitive
Systems/Circuits

 

Linda Overstreet-Wadiche
Department of Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
 

Sections:

Development/Plasticity/Repair
Cellular/Molecular

 

Deputy Editor: Rober E. Boshra

Features Editor: Teresa Esch

Reviewing Editors

 

Mark Blumberg
University of Iowa
Interests: Behavioral and systems neuroscience, sleep–wake processes, behavioral development, sensory neurodevelopment, neurophysiology, neural oscillations.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Serena Dudek
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
 
Interests: Synaptic plasticity, hippocampus, glucocorticoids, nuclear hormone receptors, development, critical periods, sex differences, developmental disorders

 

Tatiana Engel
Princeton University
 
Interests: Computational and theoretical neuroscience, neural population dynamics, neural circuit models, cognitive functions, decision-making, selective attention, working-memory, brain states, perception

 

Ian Fiebelkorn
Department of Neuroscience
University of Rochester

 

Interests: Cognitive and systems neuroscience, selective attention, working memory, visual perception, multisensory integration, neurophysiology, temporal dynamics, oscillations

 

 

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

 

Angelika Lingnau
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Regensburg
Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, perception and action, action observation, cognitive and neural organization of high-level vision, lateral occipito-temporal cortex, visual imagery, fMRI, multivariate pattern analysis, representational similarity analysis

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Timothy O’Leary
University of Cambridge
Interests: Theoretical and computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, homeostasis, cellular physiology, neural networks, network dynamics and neuromodulation, central pattern generators, brain–machine interfaces, spike-based computation

 

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

 

Erin Rich
Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Interests: Learning, working memory, value-based decision-making, strategies, social behavior, prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex

 

Erik Roberson
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, mild cognitive impairment, hyperexcitability, mouse models, hippocampus, lysosome dysfunction

 

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

 

William Stacey
University of Michigan
Interests: Epilepsy, engineering, signal processing, machine learning, computational modeling, data science, brain stimulation, clinical neurology

 

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

 

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

 

János Szabadics
HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine
Interests: Hippocampus, neocortex, neuronal excitability, voltage-gated ionic channel, action potentials, synaptic physiology, synaptic connectivity, cell type-specific functions, axonal signaling, dendritic integration. In vitro electrophysiology, voltage imaging, calcium imaging, cellular neuroanatomy.

 

Vincent Tropepe
University of Toronto
Interests: Neurogenesis, developmental genetics, epigenetics, gene expression, neural stem cells, retina, brain, regeneration, plasticity, zebrafish.

 

Anastasios Tzingounis
University of Connecticut
Interests: Ion channels, transporters, potassium channels, neuronal excitability, neurodevelopmental disorders, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorders, neocortex, hippocampus, brainstem. Technical Expertise: Electrophysiology, whole cell patch clamp, two-electrode voltage-clamp, calcium imaging, mass spectroscopy and proteomics.

 

Kerry Walker
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
University of Oxford
Interests: Audition; auditory cortex; attention; pitch; timbre; hearing loss; perception; neural coding; multisensory

 

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

 

Ying Zhang
Department of Medical Neuroscience
Dalhousie University
Interests: Sensory-motor control; Neural circuits; Neurodegeneration; Neurodevelopment (Neuronal diversification); Spinal cord injury; Neuron-muscular diseases
 

 

 

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

Associate Editors

Regina Armstrong
Mark Baccei
Michael Cohen
Laura Corbit
Philip Corlett
Stephanie Correa
Andre Cravo
Theresa Desrochers
Gregory Dussor
Marla Feller
Stephanie Gupton
Corey Harwell
Randolph Helfrich
Mary Heinricher
Jochen Herms
Alicia Izquierdo
Thomas Kash
Anne Keitel
Mazen Kheirbek
Peter Kok
Brice Kuhl
Julie Lefebvre
Julia Lemos
Sarah London
Stephen Mahler
Meghan Meyer
Laurel Morris
Nandakumar Narayanan
Amy Orsborn
Anthony Peng
Andrew Pruszynski
MenSheng Qiu
Angela Radulescu
Alon Rubin
Peter Rudebeck
Viji Santhakumar
Dori Schafer
Jaclyn Schwarz
Juan Song
Henning Sprekeler
Alexis Stranahan
Deborah Talmi
Arielle Tambini
Katalin Toth
Freek van Ede
Stephen Van Hooser
Felix Viana
Kaspar Vogt
Catherine Weisz
Andrew Westbrook
Maria Wimber
Geoffrey Woodman
Malte Wöstmann
Junqian Xu
Benedikt Zoefel