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PLoS ONE launches the NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection

The following blog is by Babak Kateb, curator of the PLoS ONE NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection

One of the great challenges of the 21st century is how to translate scientific advancements from physical sciences into medicine. This gap of knowledge is also clearly visible amongst multiple disciplines within medicine (i.e. neurosurgery and radiology, neurology and neurosurgery, psychiatry and radiology and radiology and neurology). In this spirit, the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) has been successfully addressing this educational gap by bringing together physicians, surgeons, scientists and engineers from multiple disciplines to promote cross-disciplinary research and publication.

To foster increased dialogue between these communities, PLoS ONE has launched a special collection entitled SBMT NeuroMapping & Therapeutics. The SBMT encourages its members to publish their research in PLoS ONE. These articles will then be brought together into an ongoing Collection that will highlight this content.

The aim of the SBMT NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research aimed at translation of knowledge across a number of fields such as:

  • Neurosurgery (e.g. Image Guided Therapy/intervention, brain tumors and intraoperative navigation, nanoneurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, minimally invasive therapy, vascular neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery…)
  • Neurology (e.g. movement disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, neurooncology, as well as image guided device implantation…)
  • Psychiatry (e.g. medical imaging for psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, PTSD…)
  • Radiology (e.g. fMRI, PET, Nuclear medicine, MR SPEC, MRI, MR-PET, DTI, CT-PET, Focused Ultrasound, SQUID MRI, low magnet MRI…)
  • Neuroscience (e.g. stem cell, molecular neuroscience, image guided mapping of genes, proteomics, genomics…)
  • Neuroengineering (e.g. iomaterial & tissue engineering, human brain Machine Interface, brain and spinal cord devices, nanomedicine, extraterrestrial/space medicine & clinical practice…)
  • Policy (e.g. healthcare policy issues that affect the treatment delivery and usage of certain devices/drugs/imaging technologies…)

This Collection will contain a selection of those articles published within PLoS ONE, which the Editorial Board of the Collection feel are representative of the aims and scope of the SBMT society.  It will continue to expand over time as the number of relevant articles grows and are added to the Collection.

The SBMT welcomes submissions to the PLoS ONE NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection. If you wish to submit your research please consider the following when preparing your manuscript:

  • Submission to PLoS ONE as part of the NMT Collection does not guarantee publication or inclusion into the final Collection due to highly competitive nature of this collection.

When you are ready to submit your manuscript to the collection, please log in to the PLoS ONE manuscript submission system and select the ‘SBMT NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection’ from the dropdown menu to ensure the PLoS ONE staff are aware of your submission.

Please contact Sam Moore (smoore@plos.org) if you would like further information about how to submit your research to the PLoS ONE NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection.

The following PLoS ONE Editorial Board members have agreed to assist with this collection:

  • Dr. Krystof Bankiewicz, University of California at San Francisco, US
  • Dr. Mitch Berger, University of California at San Francisco, US
  • Dr. Keith Black, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, US
  • Dr. Aria Tzika, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, US
  • Dr. Michael Lim, Johns Hopkins Hospital, US
  • Dr. Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Dr. Shawn Hochman, Emory University, US
  • Dr. Stephen Ginsberg, Nathan Kline Institute and New York University School of Medicine, US
  • Dr. Andreas Meisel, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  • Dr. Hitoshi Okazawa, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
  • Dr. Joseph El Khoury, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, US
  • Dr. Karin Peterson, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories, US
  • Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Boston University School of Medicine, US
  • Dr. Mike Chen, City of Hope, US
  • Dr. Christopher Wheeler, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, US
  • Dr. Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, US
  • Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Johns Hopkins Hospital, US

 

Curators: Babak Kateb and Allyson C. Rosen

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