Novel optical technologies for imaging and manipulation of brain structure and function span from visualization of intracellular organelles and protein assemblies to noninvasive macroscopic investigation of cortical activity in human subjects. The methods and applications are growing rapidly and are driving profound advances in understanding brain phenomena such as electrical excitability, neuroglial partnership, neurovascular signaling, metabolic activity, and hemodynamics in health and disease. At the interface of optics and neuroscience, Neurophotonics covers advances in optical technology applicable to study of the brain and their impact on the basic and clinical neuroscience applications. Neurophotonics publishes peer-reviewed papers on a broad range of topics highlighting the impact of novel optical methods in the neurosciences. Some representative, but not exhaustive, examples include development and applications of:


Microscopic methods
Super-resolution nanoscopic methods
Optogenetics and other optical methods of manipulating cellular behavior
Synthetic and genetically encoded optical reporters and actuators
Optical clearing methods
Methods to investigate neuroglial and vascular physiology
Methods to investigate cellular energetics
Noninvasive methods of measuring and imaging brain function and physiology
Photoacoustic methods spanning from optical to acoustic resolution
Clinical and translation applications
Computational methods relevant to understanding and interpreting optical measurements.