Mitochondria and Brain Disease 2.0
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 30655
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diabetes; Alzheimer´s disease; mental disorders; mitochondria; oxidative stress; uncoupling proteins; brain metabolism
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Dear Colleagues,
Brain diseases, which can come in different forms (e.g., traumatic brain injuries, strokes, seizures, mental illnesses, dementia, neurodegenerative disorders), are a significant global health issue. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over a billion people worldwide are affected with one neurological or mental health debilitating condition. In the past few decades, research in brain pathologies has made great progress in clarifying the pathophysiological mechanisms contributing to disease appearance and progress. Among these, impaired mitochondrial function has taken center stage as a causative factor in brain disease pathogenesis. Apart from being a primary metabolic platform for brain cells, mitochondrial biological activities also include several other processes like calcium homeostasis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) neutralization, amino-acid metabolism, neurotransmission and plasticity etc. As the world is moving into a new era of mitochondrial medicine, foci of current research include providing feasible strategies to directly manage the major insidious disturbances of mitochondrial homeostasis as well as attempts to directly or indirectly manage its consequences in the context of brain disease. After a successful first edition of “Mitochondria and Brain Disease”, we are pleased to announce the second volume of this Special Issue. Herein, we intend to guide readers through the multifaceted investigation of mitochondrial function and mitochondria-directed interventions in the broad and heterogeneous field of brain diseases. For that, this volume “Mitochondria and Brain Disease 2.0” invites authors to contribute to this area of research with either original research articles or comprehensive literature reviews.
Dr. Susana Cardoso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- brain injury
- dementia
- mental health
- metabolism
- mitochondria
- mitochondrial medicine
- neurodegenerative disorders
- oxidative stress
- stroke
- translational medicine
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