Locus Coeruleus Function and Vulnerability in Neurodegenerative Conditions: Evidence from Animal Model and Human Imaging Studies
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuromodulation; noradrenaline; locus coeruleus; memory consolidation; brain state; sleep; attention; cognitive flexibility
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to contribute to a Special Issue summarizing the materials of the 3rd Locus Coeruleus Meeting (2024) to be held in Innsbruck 9–11 September, 2024.
The Special Issue will focus on the locus coeruleus (LC), a core nucleus of the brain noradrenergic system. The scope of this Special Issue encompasses basic and applied, human and animal, empirical and theoretical research. It aims to elucidate the developmental origin of the LC neuron diversity, reasons for vulnerability of the LC in neurodegeneration, provide an overview of cognitive and physiological functions linked with the LC and how these change in aging and neurodegeneration, and will discuss methods for mapping brainstem nuclei precisely in in vivo data.
This Special Issue aims to share the results, insights and discussions that will take place at the 3rd Locus Coeruleus Meeting (2024). The contributions on the following topics are welcome:
- How do subcortical structures contribute to sleep;
- What makes the LC vulnerable to neurodegeneration;
- What contributes to LC MRI contrasts;
- Altered and altering LC function in aging and neurodegeneration;
- Cognitive functions supported by the LC and changes in aging;
- Brainstem mapping.
Given the fact that the suggested topics cover the meeting sessions, the symposia speakers are invited to team up to prepare a contribution on the respective topic. We also welcome contributions on relevant topics that are not included in the meeting program, as well as from researchers who did not attend the meeting.
We cordially invite you and your colleagues to contribute full research articles or review papers or perspective papers for peer review and possible publication in this Special Issue. The submission deadline is 15 March 2025. Papers may be submitted at any time until the deadline and published on an ongoing basis. For more information on this Special Issue and submission guidelines, please visit the Special Issue homepage.
Dr. Oxana Eschenko
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Hämmerer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- noradrenaline
- locus coeruleus
- neuromodulation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- neurodegeneration
- psychiatric disorders
- sleep
- brainstem
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