Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Impact Factor
2023
2.8
CiteScore
2023
5.5

Volume

41, 6 issues

Latest issue

41:5-6 online 16 February 2024

Next issue

42:1 scheduled for April 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 1989

ISSN print

0922-6028

ISSN online

1878-3627

Aims & Scope

This interdisciplinary journal publishes papers relating to the plasticity and response of the nervous system to accidental or experimental injuries and their interventions, transplantation, neurodegenerative disorders and experimental strategies to improve regeneration or functional recovery and rehabilitation. Experimental and clinical research papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches are encouraged. The overriding criteria for publication are novelty, significant experimental or clinical relevance and interest to a multidisciplinary audience. Experiments on un-anesthetized animals should conform with the standards for the use of laboratory animals as established by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, US National Academy of Sciences. Experiments in which paralytic agents are used must be justified. Patient identity should be concealed. All manuscripts are sent out for blind peer review to editorial board members or outside reviewers. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience is a member of Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Bernhard A. Sabel, PhD
Institute of Medical Psychology
Otto-v.-Guericke University of Magdeburg

Leipzigerstr. 44
39120 Magdeburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 391 672 1800
Fax: +49 391 672 1803
Email: rnn@iospress.com

Deputy Editor

Andrea Antal
University Göttingen, Göttingen
Germany
Email: rnn@med.ovgu.de

Founding Editor

D.G. Stein

Senior Associate Editors

William Freed
NIDA
Baltimore, USA

Lutz Jäncke
University Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Josef Rauschecker
Georgetown University
Washington, USA

Paolo Maria Rossini
Catholic University of Rome
Rome, Italy

Donald G. Stein
Emory University
Atlanta, USA

Doychin N. Angelov
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany

Associate Editors

Si-nae Ahn
Cheongju University
Korea

Amir Amedi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel

Andrea Antal
University Göttingen
Germany

Chandramallika Basak
University of Texas at Dallas
USA

Luca Battaglini
University of Padova
Italy

Michael Borich
University of British Columbia
Canada
    
Rocco S. Calabrò 
IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo
Italy

Clara Casco
University of Padova
Italy

Carmelo Chisari
University Hospital of Pisa
Italy
    
Sylvie Chokron
Université Paris-Descartes and CNRS
France

Leonardo Cohen
NINDS-NIH
USA

Branch Coslett
University of Pennsylvania
USA
    
Rima Dada
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

Tanuj Dada
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

Gary Dunbar
Central Michigan University
USA

Shamali Dusane
University of Illinois at Chicago
USA    
    
Ragab K. Elnaggar
Cairo University
Egypt
    
Gabriel de Erausquin
University of Texas Rio Grande
USA

Seth Finklestein
Biotrofix Inc.
USA

Felipe Fregni
Harvard Medical School
USA
    
Christian Gerloff
University medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Germany

Alexander C.H. Geurts
Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Centre
The Netherlands
    
Alfredo Gorio
University of Milan
Italy

Amir Hadanny
Shamir Medical Center, Bar Ilan University
Israel

Roy Hamilton
University of Pennsylvania
USA

Li He
Sichuan University
China

Paco Herson
Oregon Health and Science University
USA

Yong Hu
The University of Hong Kong
China

Trisha Kesar
Emory University
USA

Yun-Hee Kim
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Korea

Anthony E. Kline
University of Pittsburgh
USA

Chandramouli Krishnan
University of Michigan
USA

Eun Kyoung Kang
Kangwon National University College
Korea

Elisabetta Ládavas
University of Bologna
Italy

Teri Lawton
Early Childhood Parenting Institute
USA

Shelly Levy-Tzedek
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Israel

Pei-Hsin Liu
Tzu Chi University
Taiwan

Song Liu
Capital Medical University
China

Martin Lotze
University Medicine Greifswald
Germany

Niklas Marklund
Lund University
Sweden

Lofti Merabet
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Medical School
USA
    
Giovanni Morone
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia
Italy
    
Asok K. Mukhopadhyay
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

Antonio Nardone
University of Eastern Piedmont and Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri (IRCCS)
Italy

Xavier Navarro
University Barcelona
Spain

Xavier E. Ndone-Ekane
University of Eastern Finland
Finland
    
Randolph Nudo
University Kansas
USA

Souichi Ohta
Kyoto University
Japan

Michihiro Osumi
Kio University
Japan    
    
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Beth. Israel Hosp.
USA

Cecilia Perin
University of Milan-Bicocca
Italy

Alessandro Picelli
University of Verona
Italy

Daniele Piscitelli
University of Connecticut
Storrs, USA

Thomas Platz
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University
Germany

Uri Polat
Tel Aviv University
Israel

Sung-Bom Pyun
Korea University College of Medicine
Korea

Julio J. Ramirez
Davidson College
USA

Robert W. Regenhardt
Massachusetts General Hospital
USA

Elena Sergeeva
Harvard Medical School
USA

Mircea A. Schoenfeld
Kliniken Schmieder Heidelberg
Germany
    
Mattias K. Sköld
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden

Kwok-Fai So
University of Hong Kong
China

Chiang-Soon Song
Chosun University
Korea

Cathy Stinear
The University of Auckland
New Zealand

Peter A. Tass
Stanford University
USA

Edward Taub
CI Therapy Research Group & Taub Therapy Clinic
USA

Solon Thanos
University of Münster
Germany    

Hugo Théoret
Université de Montréal
Canada

Lechoslaw Turski
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Germany

Gitendra Uswatte
University of Alabama at Birmingham
USA

Chandler L. Walker
Indiana University
USA

Stephen Waxman
Yale University School of Medicine
USA

Reinhard Werth
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Germany

Steven L. Wolf
Emory University
USA

Youngkeun Woo
Jeonju University
Korea
    
Chuansheng Zhao
China Medical University
China

Mei Zhao
China Medical University
China

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Organization of the paper and style of presentation
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References
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References must be listed alphabetically in APA style:
Amengual, J. L., Rojo, N., Veciana De Las Heras, M., Marco-Pallarés, J., Grau-Sánchez, J., Schneider, S., ... & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2013). Sensorimotor plasticity after music-supported therapy in chronic stroke patients revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. PLoS One, 8(4), e61883.
Anderson, A. K. (2005). Affective influences on the attentional dynamics supporting awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154, 258–281.
Anderson, A. K., Christoff, K., Panitz, D., De Rosa, E., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2003). Neural correlates of the automatic processing of threat facial signals. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 5627–5633.
Armony, J. L., & Dolan, R. J. (2002). Modulation of spatial attention by fear-conditioned stimuli: An event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 40, 817–826.
Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A. (1988). An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56,893–897.
Calvo, M. G., & Lang, P. J. (2004). Gaze patterns when looking at emotional pictures: Motivationally biased attention. Motivation and Emotion, 28, 221–243.
Carretie, L., Hinojosa, J. A., Martin-Loeches, M., Mecado, F., & Tapia, M. (2004). Automatic attention to emotional stimuli: Neural correlates. Human Brain Mapping, 22, 290–299.

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Peer Review Policy

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience operates a rigorous, timely, blinded peer review process (with an option for double-blind if requested) by experts in the field. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.

Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be assessed for suitability for publication in the journal by the Editor-in-Chief. Manuscripts that are deemed unsuitable may be rejected without peer review by the Editor-in-Chief and/or the Associate Editors, and the author will be informed as soon as possible.

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The initial decision will be one of the following: rejection, acceptance without revision, or potentially acceptable after minor or major revisions. Revised manuscripts will be appraised by the Editor-in-Chief, who may seek the opinion of referees (prior or new) before making a decision. This decision is then conveyed to the author along with the anonymized referees’ reports. Once accepted, manuscripts are normally published on-line without delay and appear in the next available print issue (published quarterly).

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