Impact of Infection on the Brain in Development and Adulthood
A special issue of Journal of Developmental Biology (ISSN 2221-3759).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2024) | Viewed by 340
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Interests: neuroinflammation; PET imaging; Alzheimer’s disease; stroke; comorbidities; tracer development; MR imaging
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Interests: cytokine signaling; unfolded protein response; transcriptional control; T helper cell; immunity and inflammation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit to a Special Issue about the “Impact of Infection on the Brain in Development and Adulthood”.
There is much evidence in neuropsychiatry—the most famous example being schizophrenia—that infection has an effect on the brain in early life and may possibly lead to brain disorders later in life. In neurodegenerative diseases, this has been far less investigated, and the evidence is scarce. In either case, mechanisms linking infection and brain disorders in early life and associated impacts in later life remain under-investigated and poorly understood.
This Special Issue aims to gather research or review manuscripts dealing with these questions.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: experimental models using viral (COVID-19 or others) or bacterial infection and its impact on neuropsychiatry and neurodegeneration models; clinical studies looking retrospectively or prospectively in cohorts of patients; and imaging studies aiming to develop methods or contrast agents to image infection and/or inflammation in the context brain disorders.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Biomolecules.
Dr. Hervé Boutin
Dr. Xuexian Yang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- infection
- viral
- bacterial
- neuroinflammation
- neurodevelopment
- neurodegeneration
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