期刊名称：EXPERIMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
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ISSN： | 1226-2560
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出版频率： | Bi-monthly
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出版社： | KOREAN SOC BRAIN & NEURAL SCIENCE, KOREAN SOC NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, EXPERIMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY, SEOUL NATL UNIV, RM 410, BLDG 152-1, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 151-742
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出版社网址： | https://www.en-journal.org/
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期刊网址： | https://www.en-journal.org/
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影响因子： | 3.261 |
| 主题范畴： | MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL; NEUROSCIENCES |
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 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Experimental Neurobiology is an international forum for interdisciplinary investigations of the nervous system. The journal aims to publish papers that present novel observations in all fields of neuroscience, encompassing cellular & molecular neuroscience, development/differentiation/plasticity, neurobiology of disease, systems/cognitive/behavioral neuroscience, drug development & industrial application, brain-machine interface, methodologies/tools, and clinical neuroscience. It should be of interest to a broad scientific audience working on the biochemical, molecular biological, cell biological, pharmacological, physiological, psychophysical, clinical, anatomical, cognitive, and biotechnological aspects of neuroscience. The journal publishes both original research articles and review articles. Experimental Neurobiology is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal. The journal is published jointly by The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences & The Korean Society for Neurodegenerative Disease.
Experimental Neurobiology is indexed/tracked/covered by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), KoreaMed, Synapse, KoMCI, Google Scholar and Scopus.
Instructions to Authors
Revised on March 19, 2012
Revised on March 26, 2013
Revised on August 12, 2014
Revised on June 15, 2015
Revised on June 7, 2017
1. Manuscripts should be written in English, double-spaced throughout. All manuscripts should be submitted on line at http://www.enjournal.org. For submission, the text should be a single file in Microsoft Word format. Figures should be prepared separately as TIFF and JPEG files.
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Original research articles should be arranged in the following order: (1) title page, (2) abstract, (3) introduction, (4) materials and methods, (5) results, (6) discussion, (7) acknowledgements, (8) references, (9) tables, (10) figure legends, and (11) figures. Results and discussion may be combined. All pages should be numbered, starting with the title page, except for figures.
(1)
Title Page should include the following:
1) Journal Section (selected from Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, Development/Differentiation/Regeneration Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Diseases, Systems/Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience and Clinical Neuroscience.
2) Title of less than 150 characters including spaces.
3) Full names of all authors. A footnote to an author indicating a change of address may be included by use of superscript of lower case alphabets. Corresponding author should be indicated by the asterisk symbol (*).
4) Institutions in which the work was carried out. In the case of more than one affiliation, authors and their affiliations should be matched with superscript of Arabic numerals (such as 1, 2, or 3), placed at the end of each author and before the first letter of the institution.
5) A running title of less than 40 characters including spaces.
6) Name, phone and fax numbers, complete postal and e-mail addresses of the corresponding author.
7) Four to six keywords
(2) Abstract (up to 250 words) should be a single paragraph readily comprehensible to the broad readership of Experimental Neurobiology. It should provide a concise summary of the objectives, methodology, major results, and conclusions of the study. It should be written in complete sentences, without subheadings.
(3) Introduction should state the purpose of the investigation or the hypothesis being tested. A brief statement of the relevant background that supports the rationale of the study should be given, but extensive review of the literature should be avoided.
(4) Materials and Methods should be brief, but sufficient to allow the reader to judge the reliability and reproducibility of the experiments. Wherever possible, reference should be made to previously published procedures. Extensive descriptions of the methods should be avoided unless they represent new methods or substantially new modifications. The name and location of commercial suppliers and individuals from which materials were obtained should be listed.
(5) Results should present the experimental findings in tables or figures, but simple findings can be mentioned directly in the text. Only results necessary to establish the main points of the manuscript should be included. Numerical data should be analyzed using appropriate statistical tests.
(6) Discussion should include interpretation of the results and discussion of the validity and significance of the results in relation to previously published work in the field. Extensive discussion of the literature should be avoided. Results and Discussion may be combined for a clearer presentation.
(7) Acknowledgements should include personal assistance and financial support.
(8)
References are cited in the text by giving the numbers in square brackets.
For example,
1) Similar experiments were conducted elsewhere [1].
2) The study of Kwon and Shin [2] demonstrated....
3) Previous observations [3, 4] are consistent with....
4) Axonal transport defects are best characterized for motor neuron disorders [5-7, 9].
All references cited in the text must be listed in the References section, in numeric order. References must be complete with the last name(s) and initials of authors (names of authors divided by a comma), year of publication in parenthesis, title of paper, journal title, volume, and page numbers. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to List of Journals indexed in Index Medicus of the latest edition. List all authors in each reference. Do not use "et al."References to books should include name(s) of the author(s) or editor(s), year of publication in parenthesis, title of the book, publisher, and place of publication.
For example,
1) Journal articles
1. Chung JM, Lee KH, Surmeier DJ, Sorkin LS, Kim J, Willis WD (1986) Response characteristics of neurons in the ventral posterior lateral nucleus of the m thalamus. J Neurophysiol 56:370-390.
2. Kwon OB, Shin HC (2006) Hyperthermia-induced changes of afferent sensory transmission to the SI cortex of anesthetized rats. Exp Neurobiol 15:49-54.
3. Talbot K, Louneva N, Cohen JW, Kazi H, Blake DJ, Arnold SE (2011) Synaptic dysbindin-1 reductions in schizophrenia occur in an isoform-specific manner indicating their subsynaptic location. PLoS One 6:e16886.
4. Riederer P, Laux G (2011) MAO-inhibitors in Parkinson's disease. Exp Neurobiol (in press).
2) Books
5. Hille B (1984) Ionic channels of excitable membranes. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
3) Chapters in a book
6. Mountcastle VB (1984) Central mechanisms in mechanoreceptive sensibility. In: Handbook of physiology: the nervous system (Darian-Smith I, Hetch D, Uribe E, eds), pp 789-897. American Physiological Society, Washington DC.
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Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order of appearance in the text. Each table should be double-spaced on a separate page with a short descriptive title typed directly above and essential footnotes below. The footnotes to tables should be identified with the italic superscript lower case (e.g., a, b, etc.).
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Legends
Table and figure legends should be included within the text file as part of the main manuscript. They should contain sufficient information to be understood without reference to the text, and all symbols and abbreviations must be explained.
(11)
Figures
Figures must be numbered with Arabic numerals and prepared as JPEG or TIFF files. Color or grayscale images with no text or arrows (halftone images) should be at least 300 dpi. Color or grayscale images with any text or arrows (combination halftone images) should be at least 600 dpi. Black and white images with no shades of gray (line drawings) should be at least 1000 dpi. Color images should be created as RGB. Authors may be requested to send the original source files to the editorial office in the event that the converted files are not acceptable for publication for any reason. Figures should be uploaded individually as separate files.
3. Review articles should be arranged in the following order, each starting on a separate page: (1) title page, (2) abstract, (3) text, (4) footnotes, if any, (5) acknowledgments, (6) references, (7) tables, (8) figure legends, and (9) figures or other subsidiary matters, using the standard format for original research articles except for (3) text. The text (3) should be focused, critical, and topical accounts of the subject area.
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Supplementary Materials
Supplementary material may be submitted in support of the findings in the manuscript. It may be in the form of figures, movies, animation sequences, background datasets, sound clips, etc. A concise and descriptive caption for each file should be included in the manuscript.
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Short Communications
Short Communications are the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus relevant to the neuroscience field. Nevertheless, authors should note that short communications are intended to present exciting findings that will have a major impact in neuroscience. The style of main sections should be organized as described for Regular Manuscript, except that result and discussion are combined as one part. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
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Case Studies
Experimental Neurobiology also welcomes well-described Case Studies. Articles on the methodology of clinical research and trials relevant to the neuroscience field are particularly encouraged. Nevertheless, authors should note that case studies are intended to present exciting findings that will have a major impact in neuroscience. The style of main sections should be organized as described for Regular Manuscript, except that result and discussion are combined as one part. Case studies are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
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Technologue
Experimental Neurobiology promotes publication of articles on technical advancements. Articles on the methodology of basic brain science, including imaging techniques, pharmacological and molecular tool development, animal models and psychiatric tests, will be strongly encouraged. The style of main sections should be organized as described for Regular Manuscript, except that Materials and Method section should be extended. Technologue should be 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
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Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor will be considered for publication if they provide constructive comments or critiques to manuscripts published in Experimental Neurobiology in recent years. The maximum length of the manuscript allowed will be 2-3 printed pages in length, which may include 1,500 words, 8 references and 2 illustrations. A 150-word abstract including 2 key points is required in the abstract box of the submission site for the benefit of potential reviewing, but please do not include the abstract in the manuscript file.
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Publication fee
Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors will be required to pay KRW 500,000 for the publication fee before proceeding to production. (For a current member of Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences and of Korean Society of Neurodegenerative Diseases, a discounted payment of KRW 250,000 will be required.)
If a manuscript is accepted for publication through Quick Review Process, the authors will be required to pay KRW 1,000,000 for the publication fee before proceeding to production. Publicaton fee is not refundable. (For a current member of Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences and of Korean Society of Neurodegenerative Diseases, a discounted payment of KRW 500,000 will be required.)
Instructions to Authors
EN-manuscript-submission-template 2018-03-03.docx
Editorial Board
C. Justin Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. C. Justin Lee is currently a Tenured Research Scientist, serving as the Director of Center for Glia-Neuron Interaction at KIST. He has received his PhD at Columbia University in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and bachelor degree at University of Chicago in Chemistry. He has been a leading neuroscientist researching on the subject of astrocytes, whose functions have recently been re-evaluated in numerous reports. Particularly, he has focused on astrocytes’ ability to release various transmitters (termed gliotransmitters) including glutamate, d-serine, ATP, and GABA. He discovered that astrocytes in the cerebellum produce and release GABA through MAO-B enzyme and Bestrophin-1 channel, respectively. He also demonstrated the detailed molecular mechanisms of how astrocytes release glutamate upon GPCR activation. He went on to demonstrate that the astrocytic GABA in hippocampus impairs memory in Alzheimer’s disease. His work continues to impact the field of brain research by providing novel molecular mechanisms for glia-neuron interaction. These new findings are actively applied to the field of neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, promising novel drug targets for the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. He has published a total of 130 papers with H-Index of 38 (total citations of 5091 as of March 2018) in major scientific journals including Nature Medicine (2014), Nature Communications (2014), Cell (2012) and Science (2010). He also received numerous prestigious awards including Kyung Ahm Prize in Arts & Sciences, 2016, FILA Basic Science Award (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 2014), Jang Jin Award (Korean Brain and Neuroscience Society, 2014), and Star Professor Award (The University of Science & Technology, 2013).
Jong Eun Lee (Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea): Neurobiology of Diseases
Dr. Jong Eun Lee, Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, is neurobiochemist by training. Her research interests lies in developing the new functional stem cell and their therapeutic potential in various neuronal disease models, and conducts various studies focusing on the neuroregeneration from CNS disease.
She has been an editorial board member for the Korean Journal of Anatomy since 2003 and now the executive editor for the Anatomy and Cell Biology since 2009, and has been an executive editor for Experimental Neurobiology since 2010.
Byung-Ok Choi (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea): Clinical Neuroscience
Dr. Byung-Ok Choi is a neurologist, professor, and vice dean in the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, and a professor in the Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Science & Technology. Also he is a faculty member in the Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center and the Institute for Medical Device Management & Research Center. He is developing new therapeutic small molecules using stem cell technology, genetic editing and animal models. He also developed several types of transgenic animal models to facilitate the evaluation of new drugs, and a new drug screening platform for successful and productive research projects.
Executive Editors (Section Editors)
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience: Eunji Cheong (Yonsei University, Korea)
Development/Differentiation/Regeneration: Woong Sun (Korea University College of Medicine, Korea)
Neurobiology of Diseases: Byung Gon Kim (Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea)
Glial Biology: Eun-hye Joe (Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea)
Systems/Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience: Joung Hun Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Cinical Neuroscience: In Kyoon Lyoo (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Advanced Neurotechnology & Neuroengineering: Yo Nam (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Negative Data and Reproducibility in Neuroscience: Shawn Hyunsoo Je (Duke-NUS, Singapore)
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Section Editor: Eunji Cheong (Yonsei University, Korea)
Seung-Hee Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Seung-Hee Lee is a neuroscientist studying neural circuit mechanisms for multisensory perception in the mouse model. She studied molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in Aplysia during her Ph.D. training at the Seoul National University. She then switched her research field to the systems neuroscience and studied circuit mechanisms of visual processing in mice during her postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley. Her works have been published in Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, and Nature. She is passionate about innovation and mentorship in pursuing scientific findings. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST in September 2013, and she is now an associate professor in the same department.
Jaewon Ko (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Jaewon Ko is a molecular neuroscientist working on mechanisms underlying synaptic and circuit development. He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) since 2017.
Myoung-Goo Kang (Institute for Basic Science & Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Kang is a neuroscientist specialized in cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and learning and memory mediated by AMPA-type glutamate receptor protein complexes in the brain. Dr. Kang’s research is highly related to the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders related to abnormal synaptic plasticity including intellectual disability (mental retardation), dementia, depression, persistent pain, and epilepsy. He is a principal investigator in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He is also an adjunct professor at the Dept. of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and the Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Kiwoo Kim (Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Korea)
Imbalance of body weight and energy balance results in metabolic complications and mood disorders. Thus, understanding the neural systems underlying coordinated control of energy homeostasis and related psychiatric disorders is very significant. Dr. Kiwoo Kim’s lab focuses on the neural circuitry that regulates energy and mental homeostasis. Currently we are using interdisciplinary approaches including mouse genetics, cell and molecular biology, and electrophysiology to dissect molecular mechanism responsible for the regulation of brain circuit for energy and mental homeostasis.
Hey-Kyoung Lee (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Development/Differentiation/Regeneration Neuroscience
Section Editor: Woong Sun (Korea University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Woong Sun earned his BS, MS and Ph.D degrees in molecular biology from the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. As a postdoctoral fellow, he joined Nakamura Lab of dept. Biochemistry, Osaka University in 1997, and Oppenheim Lab of dept. Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University in 2000. He served as assistant/associate professor from 2002 and was appointed Professor since September 2009 in the department of Anatomy, Korea University College of Medicine. Dr. Sun’s research aims to understand the mechanisms of neuron production and circuit integration during the embryonic development. Currently his studies focus on histo-mophogenesis of brain and spinal cord using stem cell research and the development of novel histological techniques. Dr. Sun is also council member of Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN), and Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science (KSBNS).
Jin Woo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Jin Woo Kim is a developmental neurobiologist, who is interested in the development of mammalian visual system. He studied transcription factors that establishes the borders between optic neuroepithelial compartments in early embryo in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His current research interest is related with the intercellular communication, which specifies, maintains, and regenerates mouse retinal neurons. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.
Mi Ryoung Song (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Mi-Ryoung Song is an associate professor in Gwangju Instituete of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on diverse cellular and molecular mechanisms in neural development including brain formation, neural progenitor diversity, motor neuron differentiation and gliogenesis.
Hosung Jung (Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Hosung Jung is a molecular neurobiologist by training and has editorial experience in the field of molecular neurobiology. Research in his laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and axon guidance using the visual systems of Xenopus tropicalis and mouse as models.
Hae Chul Park (Korea University Graduate School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Hae Chul Park is interested neural development and related diseases in the central nervous system . His research is focused on oligodendrocyte developemt and multiple sclerosis, motor neuron development and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and novel neuropeptide screening and functional analysis using zebrafish animal model. Zebrafish is one of the most famous vertebrate anmimal model and Dr. Park’s lab established techniques for the generation of KO zebrafish and transgenic zebrafish to study CNS development and diseases.
Kazunori Nakajima (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
Dr. Kazunori Nakajima is Professor and Chair at Department of Anatomy, Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1988, and subsequently completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Keio University. He then joined Prof. Katsuhiko Mikoshiba’s group as a PhD student and received his PhD in 1994 from Osaka University. After postdoctoral training, he became Research Scientist at RIKEN in 1995, and started his own lab in 1998 as Department Head and Assistant Professor at Institute of DNA Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine. He then moved to Keio University in 2002 as Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Nakajima’s group developed the in utero electroporation technique and found several modes of neuronal migration such as multipolar migration, caudal migratory stream, climbing mode of hippocampal neurons, and 2-step migration of interneurons. His group focuses on the mechanisms underlying the development of cortical layers and neuronal circuits.
Soochul Park (Sookmyung Women's University, Korea)
Soochul is a neurobiologist in the field of signal transduction and neural development by training and has considerable editorial experience. He has been Chief Editor for Development at Experimental Neurobiology since 2010. He studied Ras-mediated oncogenic signal transduction at the University of Michigan and the mechanism of axonal pathfinding at the Bristol-Myers Squib Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Since his postdoctoral training, he has been interested in identifying molecular mechanism underlying diverse aspects of neural development such as neuronal cell death, neurogenesis and ependymogenesis. He is currently a full professor at the department of Biological Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul.
Section Editor: Byung Gon Kim (Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Byung Gon Kim studies how to rebuild neural connection after acute CNS injuries. He has been working on cellular and molecular mechanism of CNS axon regeneration and strives to develop novel strategies to improve neurological functions by promoting reconnection of severed axons. He is also interested in promoting neural connections by utilizing neural stem cell grafts. His recent work focused on the pathophysiology of white matter stroke revealing a novel function of innate immune system in regulating ischemic demyelination and oligodendrocyte death. Byung Gon went on to pursue doctoral degree in Neuroscience after having been trained as a neurologist. Therefore, he is familiar to a wide range of research topics related to neurological and pyschological disorders.
Sang Ryong Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
Dr. Sangryong Kim is a neuroscientist and an expert in neurodegeneration in the adult brain, scientifically evaluating the effects of the potential therapeutic reagents including viral constructs and natural compounds. He obtained his PhD from Ajou University, South Korea in 2006, and received Postdoctoral training in Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, NYC from 2006 to 2011. He was appointed as Assistant Professor of School of Life Sciences at Kyungpook National University, South Korea in 2012, and now working as Associate Professor since 2016. He is serving as the Director of Neurodegeneration Control Laboratory since 2012, and as the Deputy Director of Brain Science and Engineering Institute at Kyungpook National University since 2018. His research interests have related to the molecular basis of neurodegeneration in dopaminergic and hippocampal neurons, the role of neurotrophic factors against neurodegeneration, and the neurobiology of functional recovery.
Jee Hoon Roh (Ulsan School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Jee Hoon Roh is a trained neurologist and has worked on basic and translational research in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Roh has published several leading papers on how sleep or brain neuronal activities affect the amyloid beta metabolism in the brain with Dr. David M. Holtzman at Washington University. He has now extended the findings in humans using in vivo pathology PET images and sleep monitoring. Dr. Roh also pioneered in blood-based biomarkers of AD in collaboration with several leading groups in the field. Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)-Korea and Brain Bank at Asan Medical Center are among the major collaboration works that Dr. Roh is actively engaged in.
Seong-Ho Koh (Hanyang University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Seong-Ho Koh is working as a neurologist at Hanyang University College of Medicine and has considerable editorial experience: having started in Journal of clinical neurology in 2012 as an Executive Editor. He studied neurological diseases, especially dementia and stroke, at Hanyang University College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Uppsala University. He has a keen interest in finding new pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer’s disease and stroke.
Sun Ah Park (Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Sun Ah Park is a neurologist and neuroscientist who was trained in Yonsei University College of Medicine. Since her post-doc training in UCSD (Edward Koo’s lab) in 2008, her research has been more focused on Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To investigate the pathologic role of tau proteins in AD in relation to ER stress, cleavage and altered splicing are the main research topic. She also makes an effort to find the novel and useful disease tracking fluid biomarkers through comparing the CSF and plasma in reference to the clinical data in AD and non-AD dementia.
Hoon Ryu (Boston University, USA)
Dr. Hoon Ryu is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also an active investigator at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and a director of the laboratory for Neuronal Gene Regulation and Epigenetics in VA Boston Healthcare System. His research is focusing on the identification of epigenetic and pathological biomarkers and the elucidation of neurodegenerative mechanisms in Huntington’s Disease (HD), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Moreover, he is conducting reverse-translational studies to develop effective therapeutics with hope that it can slow or ameliorate neurodegeneration. He has published over 120 papers.
Yang Hee Kim (Sejong University, Korea)
Section Editor: Eun-hye Joe (Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Eun-Hye Joe has worked on behaviour and function of glial cells and blood cells in intact and injured, and how Parkinson’s disease genes affect their functions.
Kyoungho Suk (Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Kyoungho Suk is currently a professor of Department of Pharmacology, Kyungpook National University (KNU) School of Medicine (Daegu, Korea), and the director of Brain Science & Engineering Institute of KNU. He obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology at University of California at Davis in 1994, and M.S. degree in Immunology at Cornell University in 1991. Prof. Suk received his postdoctoral training in the division of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School between 2008 and 2009, during which he participated in large-scale experiments and systems biology approaches toward understanding of disease networks and pathways. Dr. Suk is the author of more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (h-index, 41) and holds patents on various therapeutic targets and lead compounds that could be used for the diagnosis or therapy of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Suk is currently acting as an associate editor of J Neurosci Res, and editorial board of J Neuroinflammation, Biochem Pharmacol, etc.
Sung Joong Lee (Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Korea)
Dr. Sung Joong Lee is a faculty member of Seoul National University. He studied astrocytes at the University of Alabama at Birmingham during for his Ph.D. research, and microglia at the University of Californial at San Diego during his postdoctoral training. For the past 15 years, he is dedicated on investigating neuroimmunologic function of glial cells in neurological disoders such as neuropathic pain and stroke. He is also working as a editor/editorial member of seveal Neuroscience journals including Molecular Brain, Itch and Pain, and International Journal of Neurology Research.
Dong Woon Kim (Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Dong Woon Kim is a neuroanatomical morphologist by training and has considerable experience on glia function in health and neurodegenerative disease. He have studied the comprehensive function of microglia and astrocyte activation in neuropathic pain, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and neurovascular diseases at Deparment of Anatomy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. He joined Editorial Board at Experimental Neurobiology in 2017.
Chan Young Shin (Konkuk University School of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Chan Young Shin is a neuropharmacologist by training and has acquired various experiences in research and publishing as author and peer reviewer, as well as editorial work in both local and international scientific journals. He runs his own laboratory focusing on understanding the complex neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders at Konkuk University, South Korea. His experimental expertise include neurological disorder research and new drug development which covers cell culture, molecular biology and behavior neuroscience as screening tools among others.
Hwan Tae Park (Dong-A University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Hwan Tae Park is a Schwann cell biologist and his primary interest is the molecular mechanism of myelination, demyelination and peripheral nerve repair. By using cellular and molecular technologies, he is trying to dissect pathophysiological mechanism of axonal and demyelinating peripheral neuropathies and to develop diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the neuropathies.
Shumin Duan (Zhejiaeng University, China)
Systems/Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience
Section Editor: Joung Hun Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Joung Hun Kim is a professor of Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH. He studied molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying long-term memory. Currently he has a keen interest in neuronal substrates for various animal behaviors.
Ja-Hyun Baik (Korea University, Korea)
Dr. Baik is currently Professor in Department of Life Sciences at Korea University, Seoul. Main research activities of her laboratory are focused on delineation of brain circuits that control reward-related behaviors, to identify the neural substrates of complex behaviors such as drug addiction, eating disorders and other emotional behaviors.
June-Seek Choi (Korea University, Korea)
Jong Cheol Rah (Korea Brain Research Institute, Korea)
Jong-Cheol Rah is a head of neurophysiology laboratory at the Korea Brain Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for biophysical chemistry, where he studied synaptic transmission and short-term plasticity with Dr. Christian Rosenmund. During postdoctoral training with Dr. John Isaac at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, he investigated synaptic plasticity and receptor trafficking. He then moved to Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, where he involved in developing methods for imaging-based large-scale cortical circuit analysis. His currentresearch interest is cortical circuit implementation of sensory integration and decision making.
Jinseop S. Kim (Korea Brain Research Institute, Korea)
Dr. Jinseop S. Kim is a Principal Researcher and the Lab Head of the Computational Neuroscience Lab at the Department of Structure and Function of Neural Networks, KBRI. He earned his PhD at Seoul National University in Physics. He studied Computational Neuroscience and Connectomics during his postdoctoral training at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT and at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University under the supervision of Dr. H. Sebastian Seung. He has studied neural computation of visual perception (Nature 2014 and Cell Reports 2016) and anatomical diversity of the retinal neurons (Cell 2018), through computational analysis of electron microscope images and other data. He is trying to find the biological basis of mental processes from the study of neural microcircuits.
Sébastien Royer (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Sébastien Royer worked on the amygdala during his Ph.D with Denis Paré and then worked on hippocampal place cells during his postdoc with Gyorgy Buzsaki. He is currently principal investigator at KIST where he carries research on spatial cognition using electrophysiology and optogenetic in behaving animals. One area of interest concerns the transformation of hippocampal place cell representations induced by learning.
Section Editor: In Kyoon Lyoo (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Dr. In Kyoon Lyoo, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is a graduate of Seoul National University College of Medicine. He has published a number of papers including seminal works in posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorders. Brain imaging techniques as well as clinical and behavioral assessment have been extensively used in his studies. Dr. Lyoo previously worked at Harvard University and Seoul National University, and holds positions at the University of Washington, Dept. of Radiology and University of Utah, Brain Institute, besides his current tenure at Ewha.
Perry F. Renshaw (University of Utah Medical School, USA)
Dr. Renshaw is USTAR Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah, where he co-directs the Diagnostic Neuroimaging cluster within the Department of Psychiatry. He also serves as Medical Director of the VISN 19 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Renshaw’s training as a biophysicist and psychiatrist has led to a primary research interest in the use of multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) neuroimaging to identify changes in brain chemistry associated with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Dr. Renshaw came to the University of Utah from Harvard Medical School in 2008, where he was Director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital.
Stephen R. Dager (University of Washington School of Medicine, USA)
Dr. Stephen R. Dager, MD is Professor of Radiology and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington and Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry at the University of Utah. He is Associate Director of the University of Washington Center on Human Development and Disability. Dr. Dager is a board-certified psychiatrist by training and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has served on numerous NIH and other national and international scientific review committees, including as Chair of the VA Merit Review Committee for Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences and as Chair of the New Jersey Board of Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism. Dr. Dager is the past Chair of the Department of Defense Vision Setting and Integration Panels, Congressional Mandated Medical Research (Combating Autism Reauthorization Act). He is on the Editorial Board for JAMA-Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) and Autism Research. Dr. Dager has been continuously funded by the NIH to conduct brain imaging research investigating psychiatric and developmental disorders during the past 29 years, including several current longitudinal studies of infant brain development that utilize innovative multimodal imaging techniques to investigate brain mechanisms underlying autism.
Byung-Joo Ham (Korea University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Byung-Joo Ham is a psychiatrist in the Korea university Anam Hospital as well as a professor in college of medicine, Korea university. He is currently a vice-president of the Korea university Anam Hospital Research Institution and a managing director in Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry. He has conducted researches on mood disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder(MDD), bipolar disorder using multidisciplinary approaches, mainly including structural/functional MRI scanned neuroimaging and genetic analysis. His enthusiasm for research is in order to contribute to the development of individually tailored treatment of affect-related disorders.
Manho Kim (Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Manho Kim is a neurologist by training and has dometic and international editorial and publishing experience: he is a editorial member of Scientific Reports at Nature Publishing Group, and editor of International Journal of Stem Cells, J our movement disorder, Journal of Clinical Neurology.
He is working on the the mechanism of Huntington’s disease from 1990 and collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology, Harvard Medical School, USA. (Postdoc 1995-1999). He still pursue development of therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative disorders at the Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul National University, Korea.
Jaeuk A. Hwang (Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Jaeuk Hwang is a psychiatrist working for Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital and neuroscientist who has research interests in anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and addiction. He has expertise in brain imaging including magnetic resonance imaging modalities. He has been working with Experimental Neurobiology as an Ad Hoc Reviewer and now as an Associate Editor for Clinical Neuroscience section.
Tae-Suk Kim (Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Tae-Suk Kim is a professor of psychiatry at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine since 2015. He has worked as a consultation psychiatrist at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He has studied neurobiological and clinical relationships between body and mind. He also has a deep interest in educating doctors to understand life and death.
Jin Woo Chang (Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea)
Dr. Jin Woo Chang graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine in 1983. He completed his neurosurgical residency and fellowship for stereotactic & functional neurosurgery at Severance Hospital, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. For two years he has served as an exchange professor at the University of Chicago, conducting basic research in movement disorders.
Currently Dr. Chang serves as a section editor of World Neurosurgery. He is also a member of the editorial board for the official journal of World Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) as well as the official journal of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS).
In addition to his various editorial duties, Dr. Chang currently serves as the president of the Korean Neurosurgical Society (KNS) and vice-president of World Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN).
Advanced Neurotechnology & Neuroengineering
Section Editor: Yo Nam (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Yo Nam is an Associate Professor in Bio and Brain Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he has been with KAIST, where he is now an Associate Professor of Bio and Brain Engineering and principal investigator of Neural Engineering Laboratory. His current research interests include the application of micro- and nanotechnology in neuroscience, Brain-on-a-Chip technology, electrical and optical neural interface technology, and multichannel neural signal processing. He was elected as ‘The Top 100 Technologies and Leaders in 2025 Korea’ from The National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2017.
Chang Hwan Im (Hanyang University, Korea)
Dr. Chang-Hwan Im is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Hanyang University, Korea. His research interests cover various fields of computational neuroengineering, including brain-computer interfaces, noninvasive brain stimulation, and neural signal processing. He has (co)authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He also serves as associate editors of Brain-Computer Interfaces and Biomedical Engineering Letters.
Sohee Kim (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Dr. Sohee Kim received her Ph.D. in mechatronics from University of Saarland in Germany, focusing on biomedical engineering. She worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert, Germany as researcher, and at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA as research professor. She was assistant and associate professor in School of Mechatronics and Department of Medical System Engineering at GIST, Korea, from 2009 to 2015. Currently she is associate professor in Department of Robotics Engineering at DGIST, Korea. Her research interests include neural interfacing microdevices, implantable neural stimulation devices, and soft bioMEMS based on polymers.
Noori Jun (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jeong-Woo Sohn (Daegu Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation, Korea)
Dr. Jeong-woo Sohn is a principal researcher of Medical Device Development Center at Daegu-Gyeonbuk Medical Innovation Foundation in Korea. He obtained his bachelor degree in nuclear engineering, master degree in cognitive science from Seoul Nation University in Korea and a Ph.D. degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from University of Rochester, NY, USA. Then he had been trained as a post-doctoral researcher in University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research interests are brain and machine interface, motor learning and statistical analysis on neural data. He is currently leading a research group of medical imaging
Negative Data and Reproducibility in Neuroscience
Section Editor: Shawn Hyunsoo Je (Duke-NUS, Singapore)
Shawn is currently an Associate Professor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He studied at KAIST, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) via graduate partnership program through the George Washington University Medical School. Then, he pursued postdoctoral training in the Michael Ehlers laboratory (HHMI/Duke University Medical School and later joined Duke-NUS Medical School as an assistant professor in late 2010. His research interest is to delineate the cellular and molecular underpinnings of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Albert I Chen (NTU-Warwick, Singapore)
Dr. Albert Chen is an assistant professor in the Warwick-NTU Neuroscience Program. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from Columbia University where he studied developmental neurobiology in the laboratory of Thomas Jessell. Albert was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Louis Reichardt at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Albert Chen's research aims to identify and characterize factors that direct the assembly and maintenance of neural circuits, and to understand how the organization of these circuits controls specific behaviors. These general issues are examined through the analysis of circuits in the cerebellum important for coordination, movement and motor learning. His lab is exploring mechanisms underlying the development and function of cerebellar circuits using genetics, imaging, and behavioral approaches.
Helen Zhou (Duke-NUS, Singapore)
Jeong Ho Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
As a physician-scientist, Jeong-Ho has a broad background in medicine, human genetics, and molecular neurobiology. He has pursued research that helps to elucidate brain function and bridge basic science discoveries in neurological diseases with human health impact since he joined KAIST as a faculty at 2012. Jeong-Ho is one of pioneer to identify brain-only mutations causing neurodevelopmental disorders such as focal malformations of cortical development. His lab currently conducts both human genetics and molecular neurobiology for the research of various neurological disorders, especially neurodevelopmental disorders. His lab also develops better diagnostic tools and therapies for these conditions.
Publication and Ethics Committee
Young Jun Oh (Yonsei University, Korea)
Dr. Young J. Oh has studied interplay between apoptosis and autophagy using both pathological and gene-based models of neurodegenerative disorders. He has also involved in developing a novel multi-modal neuroprotective drug in collaboration with GNT Pharma. In addition, he has considerable editorial and publishing experiences as the Chief Editor of Experimental Neurobiology and editorial board member of Journal of Neural Transmission.
Pyunglim Han (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Jong Eun Lee (Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea)
Soochul Park (Sookmyung Women's University, Korea)
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