BMC Neuroscience is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of neuroscience, welcoming studies that provide insight into the molecular, cellular, developmental, genetic and genomic, systems, network, cognitive and behavioral aspects of nervous system function in both health and disease.  Experimental studies are within scope, as are studies that describe methodological approaches to monitoring or manipulating nervous system function.

Research article
Methodology article
Database article
Software article
Review

Editor
Darren Byrne, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
Ana Donnelly, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
Brock Madsen, BioMed Central
Section Editors
Sensory systems
Jiu-Lin Du, Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cognition and behavior: behavioral neurogenetics 
Robert Gerlai, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Systems Neuroscience
Tianzi Jiang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cognition and behavior: in vitro or in vivo brain repair 
Anthony Kline, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Cognition and behavior: learning and behaviour
Thomas Munte, University of Luebeck, Germany
Cellular and molecular mechanisms 
Mark Rasenick, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Maurizio Popoli, University of Milan, Italy
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Indian Institute of Science, India
Neurobiology of disease 
Karsten Ruscher, University of Lund 
Neuroengineering 
Shanbao Tong, Jiao Tong University, China 
Computational and theoretical neuromodeling
Si Wu, Beijing Normal University, China

Associate Editors
Anatomy, development, plasticity and repair
Gavin John Clowry, Newcastle University, UK
Alessandro Ieraci, University of Milan, Italy
Soheila Karimi, University of Manitoba, Canada 
Yingwei Mao, Penn State University, USA
Wei-Yi Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Michael Piper, The University of Queensland, Australia 
Antonio Salgado, University of Minho, Portugal
Samuel Sam Wah Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Anne Taylor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Hisashi Umemori, University of Michigan, USA 
Stefan Wiese, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 
Jing-Wei Zhao, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Cellular and molecular mechanisms
Philipp Albrecht, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 
John Allen, Pfizer, Inc., United States of America 
Stephanie A. Booth, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada 
Guy Brock, University of Louisville, USA
Peter Chidiac, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
Marcelo Coba, University of Southern California, USA
Luciano Conti, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy 
Robert Donati, Illinois College of Optometry, USA 
Jing Du, NIH, USA
Jeff Edwards, Brigham Young University, USA
Jürgen Engele, University of Leipzig, Germany
Jamie Foster, University of North Dakota, USA
Marc Freeman, University of Massachusetts, USA
Fabio Fumagalli, University of Milan, Italy 
Othman Ghribi, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, USA 
Aihua Gu, Nanjing Medical University, China
Nathaniel Jeske, UT Health San Antonio, USA
Rajesh Khanna, University of Arizona, USA 
Lubica Lacinova, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Slovakia
Alessandra Mallei, University of Milano, Italy 
Birendra Mallick, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 
Andrea Masotti, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Italy 
Laura Musazzi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy 
Damien O'Halloran, George Washington University, USA
Stephen Rayport, Columbia University, USA 
William D Richardson, University College London, UK
Rocio Bengoechea Ibaceta, Washington University, USA
Niaz Sahibzada, Georgetown University, USA 
Tomoaki Shirao, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 
David Slattery, University of Regensburg, Germany 
Ewan St. John Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Merab Tsagareli, Beritashvili Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Georgia
Zaijie Wang, University of Illinois, USA
Gregers Wegener, University of Aarhus, Denmark 
Lei Xue, Fudan University, China 
Yong Zhang, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Lei Zhu, Gladstone Institute-UCSF, USA
Cognition and behavior: behavioral neurogenetics 
Elvira De Leonibus, CNR, Italy 
Junhai Han, Southeast University, China
Zhengping Jia, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Erin Kinnally, University of California, Davis, USA
Claudio Mello, OHSU, USA 
Adam Miklosi, Eötvös University, Hungary
Howard Sirotkin, Stony Brook University, USA 

Cognition and behavior: in vitro or in vivo brain repair
Naima Lajud Avila, Laboratorio de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Mexico
Corina O. Bondi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Theresa Hernández, The Center for Neuroscience, USA
Mushfiquddin Khan, Medical University of South Carolina, USA 
Olga Kokiko-Cochran, Lerner Research Institute, USA 
Barry McColl, University of Edinburgh, UK 
Claudio Perez, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Michael P Weisend, Wright State Research Institute, USA 
Xiaolin Zhou, Peking University, China
Cognition and behavior: learning and behavior
Alessandro Angrilli, University of Padova, Italy 
Caroline Bass, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Nadia Bolognini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy 
Róbert Bódizs, Semmelweis University, Hungary 
Benjamin Clark, The University of New Mexico, USA
István Czigler, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungary 
Ryan D'Arcy, National Research Council, Canada 
Carlos Gómez, University of Valladolid, Spain
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Wei He, Macquarie University, Australia 
Norbert Jausovec, Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia 
Naima Lajud Avila, Laboratorio de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Mexico 
Josep Marco-Pallarés, University of Barcelona, Spain
Vishnu Murty, Temple University, USA 
Osvaldo A Rosso, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany
Mridula Sharma, Macquarie University, Australia
Adam S. Smith, University of Kansas, USA 
Nazan Uysal, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey 
Nathan Weisz, INSERM U821, France
Zheng Ye, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Tino Zaehle, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Juan Zhang, University of Macau, China 
Computational and theoretical neuromodeling
Jianxia Cui, UCSD, USA
Alain Destexhe, UNIC, France 
Sheng Li, Peking University, USA 
Pei-Ji Liang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 
Catherine Myers, VA New Jersey Health Care System, USA
Malte J Rasch, Beijing Normal University, China 
Da-Hui Wang, Beijing Normal University, China 

Neurobiology of disease
Nashat Abumaria, Fudan University, China
John Allen, Pfizer, Inc., USA
David Blum, INSERM U837, France 
Josh Burk, College of William & Mary, USA
Bruce Citron, University of South Florida, USA
Eric Engleman, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Merari Ferrari, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sylvia Fitting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA 
Mithilesh Jha, John Hopkins University, USA
Mohammad A Kamal, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia 
Ramesh Kandimalla, Texas Tech University, USA
Madepalli Lakshmana, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, USA
Thomas Leyhe, University of Tübingen, Germany 
Wei Li, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
Gurdeep Marwarha, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, USA
Jogender Mehla, Washington University at St Louis, USA 
Ramesh Raghupathi, Drexel University College of Medicine, USA
Muhammad Raza, Hamdard University, Pakistan
Raymond Regan, University of Maryland, USA
Rafal Rygula, Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Michael Schäfer, Focus Program Translational Neurosciences of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Shiva M. Singh, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Salvador Soriano, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA
Ann Stowe, University of Texas Southwestern, USA 
Marc Watson, MedImmune Ltd, UK
Beate Winner, Salk Institute of Biological Studies, USA
Xiao-Xin Yan, Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, China
Chunlong Zhong, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, China 
Neuroengineering
Tassos Bezerianos, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Myles Jones, University of Sheffield, UK
Yao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ali Yadollahpour, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Sensory systems
Heinz Breer, University of Hohenheim, Germany 
Sami Damak, Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland 
John I Glendinning, Barnard College, USA
Don Katz, Brandeis, USA
Haidong D Lu, Beijing Normal University, China 
Minghong Ma, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Wolfgang Meyerhof, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam Rehbruecke, Germany 
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford, UK
Wei Wang, Institute of Neurosience, Chinese Academy of Science, China 
Zhiqiang Yan, Fudan University, China
Systems Neuroscience 
Benjamin Becker, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China 
Danilo Bzdok, RWTH University, Germany 
Tianming Liu, University of Georgia, USA  
Stephen Tillery, Arizona State University, USA
Shan Yu, Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Editorial Advisors
Richard W Aldrich, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 
Susan G Amara, Oregon Health and Science University, USA 
Jonathan Ashmore, University College London, UK 
Cori Bargmann, The Rockefeller University, USA 
Ben A. Barres, Stanford University, USA 
Heinrich Betz, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany 
Tim Bliss, National Institute for Medical Research, UK 
Edoardo Boncinelli, Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Italy 
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Germany 
Philippe Brulet, Institute Pasteur, France 
Moses Chao, New York University School of Medicine, USA 
David Clapham, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Graham Collingridge University of Bristol, UK 
Martha Constantine-Paton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
Wim Crusio, University of Bordeaux, France 
John Dowling, Harvard University, USA 
Ruth A Eatock, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Frances Edwards, University College London, UK 
Thomas Elbert, University of Konstanz, Germany 
Piers Emson, The Babraham Institute, UK 
Alain Ghysen, Université Montpellier 2, France 
Corey Goodman, Renovis, Inc., USA 
James Gusella, Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School, USA 
Chris Henderson, Columbia University, USA 
Lily Jan, University of California, San Francisco, USA 
Thomas Jessell, University of Columbia, USA 
Charanjit Kaur, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Sue Kinnamon, Colorado State University, USA
Iring Koch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
Patricia K Kuhl, University of Washington, USA 
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Amy MacDermott, Columbia University, USA 
Lamberto Maffei, Istituto di Neurofisiologia del CNR, Italy 
Eve Marder, Brandeis University, USA 
Ronald McKay, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Fujita Health University, Japan 
William T. Newsome, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 
Marc Peschanski, INSERM, France 
Mu-ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley, USA 
Michael Posner, University of Oregon, USA 
Genevieve Rougon, Université de la Méditerranée, France 
Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, USA 
Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany 
Larry Squire, University of California, San Diego, USA 
Charles Stevens, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA 
Esther Stoeckli, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
Michael P Stryker, University of California, San Francisco, USA 
Thomas C Sudhof, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA 
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford University, USA 
David Van Vactor, Harvard Medical School, USA 
Frank Walsh, Kings College, UK 
Robert W Williams, University of Tennessee, USA