Editorial: Understanding brain mechanisms underpinning physical movement and exercise

Editorial: Mechanisms Underpinning the Link between Emotion, Physical Health, and Longevity

Editorial: Brain cholinergic mechanisms

While historically acetylcholine (ACh) holds a central place in the discovery of chemical transmission in the nervous system, progress in our knowledge of the mechanistic underpinnings of cholinergic transmission in the central nervous system (CNS) has lagged behind its sister transmitters. For example, unlike what we know about glutamatergic transmission, neither the prevalence of fast choline...

Editorial overview: Behavioural ecology-molecular and neural mechanisms underpinning adaptive behaviour in insects.

Around the turn of the century, there was a perception in some circles that behavioural ecology was dead [1]. However, the fashions in behavioural ecology that were then seen in decline were in fact dead before they were born (as indeed any science that thrives on fashion rather than discovery). Fields such as ‘fluctuating asymmetry’ and ‘UV vision’ have sunk into oblivion for all the right rea...

Editorial: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Movement-Based Embodied Contemplative Practices

Compared to the extensive body of neuroscientific work on seated meditation practices, far fewer studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying movement-based contemplative practices such as yoga or tai chi. One likely reason is the inherent challenge of dealing with their multifaceted nature, typically involving specific movement sequences, regulation of the breath, and modulation ...

Editorial: What Is Brain Mapping?

G20 World Brain Mapping Initiative (Neuroscience/N-20) is Putting Brain Mapping on the top of Global Economic Issues The Society for Brain Mapping, Therapeutics, and Brain Mapping Foundation are propelling therapeutic advances in Nano-Neurosurgery, Nano-Bio-Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Supercomputing and ‘cross-pollination’ among the bio-medical sciences and engine...