Frontiers in Neuroscience is a leading journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across a wide spectrum of specialties and disciplines. Field Chief Editor Idan Segev at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide.These are historical times for brain research - namely for the Brain itself. The convergence of novel molecular and optical techniques paves the way to the era of "causation neuroscience," whereby many thousands of cells composing the system studied can be recorded from and manipulated in a very specific manner (e.g. via "optogenetics") and the behavioral and functional consequences of these manipulations explored in vivo. It is also a new era of "anatomical neuroscience" - as recently developed techniques, both at the whole-brain level ("connectome") and the local circuit and synaptic level ("connectomics") become more widely used. These approaches allow us to link structure of specific brain regions and local circuits to function more astutely. New research fields have recently emerged, e.g. "neuroeconomics" and "neuroenergetics." In addition, and critically, in our information-generating world, new informatics-based methods are being developed to store the enormous amount of new “big data” in a systematic manner, for data-preservation, data-mining and for extracting key information from these data. And, importantly, theoretical and computational approaches are being developed for integrating this diverse data and for deriving principles of brain operations that may otherwise lie hidden within the intricacies of brain circuits.As the field is growing fast, we seek to integrate and cross-link studies and citations in related subfields, providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in these fields and the ways in which they complement each other. After all, we may each of us look at the brain from particular standpoints - all the way from "genes to behavior" - yet the brain integrates all these levels seamlessly; this journal should reflect this in the best possible way.

《神經科學前沿》是該領域的領軍期刊，發表了廣泛的專業和學科的同行評審研究。耶路撒冷希伯來大學的現場總編輯伊丹·塞格夫得到了一個杰出的國際研究人員編輯委員會的支持。這本多學科開放獲取期刊是向研究人員、學者、臨床醫生和全世界公眾傳播和交流科學知識和有影響力的發現的前沿。這是大腦研究的歷史時期——也就是大腦本身。新的分子和光學技術的融合為“因果神經科學”的時代鋪平了道路，在這一時代，構成所研究系統的數千個細胞可以以一種非常特殊的方式（例如通過“光遺傳學”）進行記錄和操作，以及這些操作在體內的行為和功能后果。這也是一個“解剖神經科學”的新時代——正如最近發展的技術，無論是在整個大腦層面（“連接體”），局部回路和突觸層面（“連接體”）都得到了更廣泛的應用。這些方法使我們能夠將特定大腦區域的結構和局部電路聯系起來，從而更加敏銳地發揮作用。最近出現了新的研究領域，如“神經經濟學”和“神經能量學”。此外，而且，至關重要的是，在我們的信息生成世界中，正在開發基于信息學的新方法，以系統地存儲大量新的“大數據”，用于數據保存、數據挖掘和提取關鍵信息。從這些數據中。而且，重要的是，理論和計算方法正在開發中，以整合這些不同的數據，并推導出可能隱藏在錯綜復雜的大腦回路中的大腦操作原理。隨著該領域的快速發展，我們試圖整合和交叉鏈接相關子領域的研究和引文，概述這些領域的最新技術及其相互補充的方式。畢竟，我們每個人都可能從特定的角度看待大腦——從“基因”到行為——然而大腦無縫地整合了所有這些層面；這本雜志應該以最好的方式反映這一點。