Abstract
It is my pleasure to introduce myself as the new editor-in-chief of Brain Connectivity. I am a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. My main focus of research is neuroimaging in neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders using positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). I am honored to take up this position and am looking forward to your contributions to Brain Connectivity.
I would like to congratulate Drs. Pawela and Biswal for their outstanding contribution to Brain Connectivity as the founding and co-editors-in-chief. Under their leadership, the journal has made a significant impact and continues to be a leading journal in the field of connectivity. I would also like to thank all the authors who have contributed to the journal, and the associate editors and the entire editorial board for their substantial contribution to the journal.
The importance of structural and functional connectivity is increasingly being recognized as the underlying mechanism of neuronal damage in most brain disorders, and Brain Connectivity plays a significant role in this field. Brain Connectivity has published several seminal papers on the novel methodology of evaluating structural and functional connectivity.
The field of neuroscience is constantly evolving, with multimodal imaging now considered as the preferable method of evaluating different diseases and interventions. The remit of Brain Connectivity has always been the inclusion of the articles of a translational nature. Going forward, we aim to increase the number of articles with clinical implications and relevance while maintaining the core of Brain Connectivity with outstanding methodological contributions.
With the view of expanding the scope of Brain Connectivity, I would like to invite articles describing: The underlying mechanisms and influences on structural and functional connectivity behind neurological disease. How different pathological substrates influence structural and functional connectivity in brain disorders. Multimodal imaging in brain disorders. Imaging in both human and animal models. Experimental techniques combining MRI (connectivity), electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, PET, single photon emission computed tomography, and other new and evolving methods. Original manuscripts, communications, and review articles. Several sub-categories under original articles and communications will be considered, including reports of original experimental data, methodological studies, novel data analysis schemes, theoretical data modeling, and descriptions of changes in brain connectivity in health and disease. Reports of original investigations in the areas of neuroscience, neurology, physics, biophysics, computer science, neuroinformatics, developmental biology, genetics, molecular biology, psychiatry, pharmacology, and anesthesiology, which influence brain connectivity.