Brain and Behavior is peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal, providing rapid publication of scientifically sound research across neurology, neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. The journal publishes quality research reports that enhance understanding of the brain and behavior. The e journal strives to help authors and look for reasons to publish rather than reject. The journal's broad scope considers empirical and theoretical submissions in areas including, but not limited to

mechanisms and treatment of psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases
behavioral and cognitive science
clinical, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology
neurosurgery, neuroimaging, and neuroimmunology
epidemiology and genetics of psychological and neurological conditions
emerging technologies and new research methods 
Brain and Behavior gives rapid consideration to papers in all areas of clinical and basic research across a broad scope of topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychology, and psychiatry. Brain and Behavior features original research articles, reviews, methods papers, editorials, and commentaries. Original research papers must report well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the data presented in the paper. Molecular, cellular, systems and population-level research in humans and animal models are welcome. A more extensive list of keywords is listed below. Terms are sorted into two categories: "Brain" and "Behavior". Those terms most relevant to neuroscience and neurology are found under  "Brain" and those terms most relevant to psychology and psychiatry research  are under "Behavior".

Research Articles
Review Articles
Method Papers
Data Articles
Editorials
Commentaries
Registered Reports

Editor-in-Chief
(USA)Nutan Sharma (Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)
Senior Editors
(United Kingdom)David Belin (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK)
(USA)Amanda Bischoff-Grethe (Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA)
(Germany)Claudia Grothe (Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, Hannover Medical School, Germany)
(USA)Bingren Hu (Department of Anesthesiology and Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, College Park, MD, USA)
(USA)Evan Kleiman (Depatment of Psychology, Rutgers University of New Jersey, USA)
(China)Weiwan Wang (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Editorial Board
(USA)Andrei Alexandrov, Editor-in-Chief: 2011-2015 (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
(USA)Hubert Amrein (Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA)
(Canada)Isabelle Aubert (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
(Canada)Sandra Black (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
(Canada)Sandra Bosacki (Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada)
(USA)Robert Bryan (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
(USA)Alexander Bystritsky (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
(UK)Hans Crombag (University of Sussex, East Sussex, UK)
(USA)Mirella Dapretto (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
(USA)David Diamond (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA)
(USA)Christine Fennema-Notestine (University of California, San Diego, USA)
(Germany)Ilona Grunwald-Kadow (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Planegg, Germany)
(USA)Martin Hagger (University of California, Merced and University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
(Hungary)Jozsef Haller (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
(Hungary)Ahmad Hariri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
(Hong Kong)Shu-Leong Ho (University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong)
(Germany)Andrea Huber Brösamle (Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany)
(Japan)Kazuhiro Ikenaka (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi, Japan)
(UK)Stephen Jackson (University of Nottingham and Korea University, Nottingham, UK)
(Japan)Takeshi Kaneko (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
(USA)Kenneth Kosik (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
(Sweden)Klas Kullander (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
(UK)Jonathan Lee (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)
(USA)Edward Levin (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
(China)Bai Lu (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
(USA)Randolph Marshall (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA)
(USA)Maryann Martone, Editor-in-Chief: 2015-2018 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
(Canada)Cheryl McCormick (Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada)
(USA)Douglas Mennin (Hunter College, New York, NY, USA)
(USA)Martin M. Mortazavi (California Neurological Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
(UK)Declan Murphy (King's College London, London, UK)
(Germany)Heinz Reichmann (University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany)
(USA)Richard Rende (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
(Italy)Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma, Parma, Italy)
(USA)Fred Sabb (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
(Russia)Veronika Skvortsova (Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russia)
(USA)Kai-Christian Sonntag (Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)
(USA)Sandeep Subramanian (UT Health San Antonio, Texas, USA)
(Japan)Takashi Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
(Hong Kong)Wai Kwong Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong)
(USA)Wesley Thompson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
(USA)Tanya N. Turan (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
(Germany)Hartmut Wekerle (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Planegg, Germany)
(China)Jianhong Zhu (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)