Editorial Activity as It is: Scientific Editor Commentaries

Scientific Commentaries

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is the most prevalent acquired myopathy in adults beyond the age of 50. The disease is relentlessly progressive and largely resistant to immunosuppressive therapy (reviewed by Hohlfeld, 2011). In IBM, and less frequently also in polymyositis, non-necrotic muscle fibres are focally surrounded and invaded by CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTL) (Fig. 1) (Engel and Arahata, 1...

Scientific Commentaries

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Neural detection of complex sound sequences in the absence of consciousness’, by Tzovara et al. (doi:10.1093/ brain/awv041). Event related potentials (ERPs), classically measured by EEG, are the electrophysiological brain responses to a stimulus. Somatosensory and auditory ERPs have been used as a noninvasive tool for assessing brain functions and predictin...

Commentaries on the letter to the editor

In the letter by Scorza and Cavalheiro1, the authors posit that the use of psychoanalysis for neuropsychiatric syndromes “has a direct positive influence” on neurogenesis. Yet, the authors acknowledge that the putative mechanisms to explain the alleged role of psychoanalysis on neuroplasticity remain “still poorly explored”. In a letter addressed to Wilhelm Fliess in April 1895, Sigmund Freud m...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Editorial: From the Editor

This is the first issue of a new journal with a great tradition. What seems to be a contradiction is meant to be a fruitful synthesis. The critical and creative mind of A. Bernard Ack-erman, the founder of the journal, was a catalyst for many sustainable reactions and there is still considerable after-glow! The half-life of ideas can be longer than the life span of a human being! Under Bernie's...