Networks and Hubs Re-defining the Role of the Connectome in the Nervous System
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cells of the Nervous System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2927
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Interests: neurology; neuroanatomy; clinical neurophysiology; migraine; synaptic plasticity models; glial cells
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Interests: neuroinflammation; astrocytes; synaptic plasticity; nerve growth factor; vagus nerve stimulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue offers the opportunity for an open and peer-reviewed debate about modern theories and experiments identifying the shape of the nervous system connectome. The fine structure and defined connections of neuronal networks hardly prove to be necessary and sufficient in explaining the emergent properties of the system. From bench to bedside, evidence has been accumulated for the definition of novel theories that look at epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein-based mechanisms that could change the neural network paradigms.
Here, we accept novel ideas and research regarding the nervous system connectome through pathological and physiological models. Different approaches will be accepted as long as the novelty of the proposed theory and experimental settings is well elucidated.
Dr. Ciro De Luca
Prof. Dr. Michele Papa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- connectome
- CNS
- omics
- systems biology
- connectome
- CNS pathology
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