Avian olfaction has been neglected for a long time, although pioneering work has been conducted from the 1960th on (Bang, 1960; Bang and Cobb, 1968; Wenzel, 1968, 1971a,b; see also Nevitt and Hagelin, 2009). However, much of this research focused on odor perception in general or on the use of olfactory cues in non-social contexts, e.g., for navigation (Grubb, 1974; Papi et al., 1974; Wallraff, ...

After its discovery as a genetically inherited hemoglobinopathy one hundred years ago, finding a widely available cure for sickle cell anemia (SCA, HbSS) still remains a challenge and the disease requires multi-disciplinary theranostic approaches (Menaa et al., 2013; Menaa, 2014). Indeed, more effort and resources to promptly find alternative therapeutics and/or adjuvants (e.g. nutraceutics) to...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe and chronic condition affecting 350 million subjects worldwide with 1 million subjects committing suicide every year (World Health Organization 2008). MDD is prevailing in wealthy countries including Italy, where lifetime prevalence was estimated at 9.9% (Bromet et al. 2011). Diagnosis is defined by fulfilling at least five of the nine criteria descri...

The Research Topic “Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientificmethods” was crosslinked in two Frontiers journals, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis. Thus, contributing authors could choose to submit to either of those two journals. Among the 16 finally accepted contributions, 14 were submitted to Fr...

Epidemiological data suggest that the incidence of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is rapidly rising, and smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer in the world. The traditional therapies for NSCLC mainly include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc (Liu et al., 2013; Lu et al., 2013; Yan et al., 2013; Ji et al., 2014; Cui et al., 2014). However, these therapeutic interventions often br...

Gastric carcinoma (GC) remains the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide (Huang et al., 2013). According to the statistics, the 5-year relative survival rate of gastric cancer patients is 24.3% (Shin et al., 2012). Only 20% of the patients are suitable for curative resection because the majority of diagnosed patients are locally advanced or metastatic (Ajani et al., 2013; Wang ...