Neural Development is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of research that use molecular, cellular, physiological or behavioural methods to provide novel insights into the mechanisms that underlie the formation of the nervous system, as well as its renewal and regeneration in adults.

Neural Development aims to discover how the nervous system arises and acquires the abilities to sense the world and control adaptive motor output. The field includes analysis of how progenitor cells form a nervous system during embryogenesis, and how the initially formed neural circuits are shaped by experience during early postnatal life, as well as renewal and regeneration in adults. Some studies use well-established, genetically accessible model systems, but valuable insights are also obtained from less traditional models that provide behavioral or evolutionary insights.

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Editors-in-Chief
Chris Q Doe, University of Oregon, USA
Julia Kaltschmidt, Stanford University, USA
Kang Shen, Stanford University, USA 
Editorial Board
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, University of California, San Francisco, USA 
Silvia Arber, University of Basel, Switzerland 
Herwig Baier, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany 
Cornelia I Bargmann, Rockefeller University, USA 
Perry F Bartlett, University of Queensland, Australia 
Michael Bate, University of Cambridge, UK 
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Germany 
Andrea Brand, University of Cambridge, UK 
Michael Brand, Dresden University, Germany 
James Briscoe, National Institute for Medical Research, UK 
Jean-François Brunet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France 
Bill Chia, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Hollis T Cline, The Scripps Research Institute, USA 
Ann-Marie Craig, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Aaron DiAntonio, Washington University, USA 
Chris Q Doe, University of Oregon, USA 
Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge, UK 
Judith S Eisen, University of Oregon, USA 
Marla Feller, University of California at Berkeley, USA 
Gordon Fishell, New York University School of Medicine, USA 
Jonas Frisén, Karolinska Institute, Sweden 
Fred H Gage, Salk Institute, USA 
Anirvan Ghosh, University of California, San Diego, USA 
Alain Ghysen, University of Montpellier, France 
Martyn Goulding, The Salk Institute, USA 
Michael E Greenberg, Harvard University, USA 
William Guido, University of Louisville, USA 
Francois Guillemot, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
William Harris, University of Cambridge, UK  
Takao Hensch, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan 
Oliver Hobert, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA 
Christine Holt, University of Cambridge, UK
Andrew D Huberman, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 
Wieland B Huttner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Hiroyuki Kamiguchi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan 
Karl Kandler, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA 
Roger Keynes, University of Cambridge, UK 
Ole Kiehn, Karolinska Institute, Sweden 
Christopher Kintner, The Salk Institute, USA 
Ruediger Klein, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany 
Raj Ladher, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan 
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University, USA 
Andrew Lumsden, King's College London, UK 
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, USA 
Carol Mason, Columbia University, USA 
Susan K McConnell, Stanford University, USA 
Dennis M O'Leary, The Salk Institute, USA 
Hitoshi Okamot,  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan 
Nancy Papalopulu, University of Manchester, UK 
Mu-ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley, USA 
Alain Prochiantz, CNRS, France 
Joshua R Sanes, Harvard University, USA 
Carla J Shatz, Stanford University, USA
Tomomi Shimogori, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan 
Nicholas Spitzer, University of California, San Diego, USA 
Masatoshi Takeichi, RIKEN Kobe Institute, Japan 
Ian D Thompson, King's College London, UK 
David Van Vactor, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Christopher Walsh, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Frank Walsh, King's College London, UK 
Stephen Wilson, University College London, UK
Rachel Wong, University of Washington, USA  
Fengwei Yu, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore 
Xiao-bing Yuan, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS, China 
Kai G Zinn, California Institue of Technology, USA 
Larry Zipursky, University of California, Los Angeles, USA