Twin Brains: From Identical Genes to Different Persons
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 350
Special Issue Editor
2. Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, MidAtlantic Neonatology Associates (MANA), Biomedical Research Institute of New Jersey (BRInj), Atlantic Health System (AHS), Morristown, NJ 07927, USA
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; movement disorders; TBI; neuroinflammation; neuroimmunlogy; neuropharmachology; idea density; semantics; grammar complexity; language development; neurolingustics; genetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Determining the role of genetic processes and their mutual influence with environmental factors across all phases of human life (development, adulthood, and aging) has been both tricky and fascinating. However, the nature–nurture dilemma has its paradigmatic situation in identical twins, which have been, historically, a natural experiment and an incomparable source of information since the gemellology studies, and even earlier, have been formally conceived.
One of the goals of this Special Issue on Twin Brains is to collect and organize a robust set of data to share across interested investigators and other readers and provide meanings and future perspectives on the various twin-research aspects generated during the last few decades of clinical and basic research in the field.
New data from studies on identical twins that analyze the similarities and differences in terms of neuro-structural, neuro-functional, cognitive, and non-cognitive aspects are particularly welcomed. This Special Issue is also open to the consideration of investigations of identical twins across the entire spectrum of biology from normality to pathologic conditions across the entire lifespan. In addition, epidemiological investigations using a large amount of data on cognitive, behavioral, genetic, and molecular aspects assessed employing any clinical, imaging, physiological, or other validated research or clinical technique or methods will be very welcomed.
Dr. Diego Iacono
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- twin brains
- identical twins
- similarities and differences
- gene environment
- nature–nurture
- cognition and behavior
- omics
