Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Brain Sciences by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Brain Sciences.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
– All of the reviewers for Brain Sciences in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
– The winners will be announced in April 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
– If you have not yet reviewed papers for Brain Sciences, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link:
https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Brain Sciences is inviting applications for the Brain Sciences 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to one PhD student or recently qualified PhD fellow who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney.

Eligibility and Requirements
– The candidate must be a PhD student who is going to graduate or participate in a graduation thesis defense;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024.

Required Application Documents
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– An electronic certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Brain Sciences after peer review before 30 June 2025.

The application deadline is 31 July 2024. The winner will be announced on the Brain Sciences website by the end of September 2024.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Brain Sciences 2023 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Brain Sciences from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in the journal from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

Prizes:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Brain Sciences in 2024 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Brain Sciences in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in April 2024.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Brain Sciences is now inviting nominations for the Brain Sciences 2024 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of neuroscience. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney.

The Prize
– CHF 1500;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Brain Sciences after peer review before the end of 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2024;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of neuroscience;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
– Open for nomination: 1 November 2023
– Nomination deadline: 31 March 2024
– Winner announcement: 31 May 2024

How to Submit Nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Hillary Lv
Marketing Specialist
Email: hillary.lv@mdpi.com

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Brain Sciences, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2024 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Peng Liu, a PhD student in the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Korea, who is going to attend the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2024; and Dr. Matthew Chilvers, a post-doctoral fellow in the University of Calgary, USA, with his abstract “White Matter Disconnection Associated With Impaired Motor Recovery After Stroke” accepted by the American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) Annual Conference.

As the awardees, they will each receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of Brain Sciences 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Brain Sciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Brain Sciences. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Jamir Pitton Rissardo
Medicine Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
Research interests: epilepsy; stroke; headache; traumatic brain injury; pain; movement disorder; dystonia; Parkinson’s disease; tremor; ballism; seizure; meningitis; degenerative disease; ALS; MS; multiple sclerosis; facial pain; GCA; TBI; brain tumor.

Dr. Mohsen Soltanifar
Analytics Division, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University, Vancouver, Canada
Research interests: clinical trials; statistical inference; biostatistics; design; analysis; reporting; pharmaceutical; R software; mathematics.

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Brain Sciences before 31 December 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Brain Sciences, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Mohd Yaseen Malik, a PhD student at the University of Oxford, UK, and Dr. Meira Maria Forcelini Machado, a Postdoctoral Associate at Western University, Canada.

As the awardees, they will each receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2023 Young Investigator Award: Dr. Alessandra Borsini and Dr. Daniele Bertoglio.

Dr. Alessandra Borsini is a senior postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine at King’s College London, UK. Dr. Alessandra Borsini’s research interests include the brain, inflammation, and mental health. Dr. Alessandra Borsini received her Ph.D. in 2017 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 93 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Alessandra Borsini’s Scopus scientific citations number is 1425 and her Hirsch index is 20. She is clearly a rising star in the field of neuroimmunopsychiatry. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Alessandra Borsini for her outstanding achievements.

Dr. Daniele Bertoglio is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Bio-Imaging Lab (BIL), Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Dr. Daniele Bertoglio’s research exploits state-of-the-art small animal imaging modalities, namely magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, to identify candidate biomarkers to monitor disease progression, predict outcomes, and evaluate the efficacy of innovative therapeutics in preclinical models of neurological diseases. Dr. Daniele Bertoglio received his Ph.D. in 2019 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 32 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Daniele Bertoglio’s Scopus scientific citations number is 354 and his Hirsch index is 11. He is clearly a rising star in the field of neuroimaging in neurological disorders. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Daniele Bertoglio for his outstanding achievements.

The awardees will each receive an honorarium of CHF 1500 and an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 30 September 2023 in Brain Sciences following peer-review.

We would like to thank all of the nominees from various fields of study for their participation and all of the award committee members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Brain Sciences 2023 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Brain Sciences, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Brain Sciences 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:

“Immortal orexin cell transplants restore motor-arousal synchrony during cataplexy” By Sara Pintwala, University of California, USA

The winner will receive CHF 800, an electronic certificate and an offer to publish a featured paper in Brain Sciences with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Brain Sciences were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Summary of over Fifty Years with Brain-Computer Interfaces—A Review
By Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk, Natalia Browarska, Amir Al-Bakri, Mariusz Pelc, Jaroslaw Zygarlicki, Michaela Sidikova, Radek Martinek and Edward Jacek Gorzelanczyk
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(1), 43; doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010043

One Article:
Quantitative Evaluation of Task-Induced Neurological Outcome after Stroke
By Iqram Hussain and Se-Jin Park
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(7), 900; doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11070900

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a certificate.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Brain Sciences 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Brain Sciences.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Brain Sciences 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Brain Sciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to checking the manuscripts submitted to Brain Sciences. It is due to their efforts that the high quality and quick turnaround of the journal are maintained.

Dr. Chong Chen
Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan.
Research interests: cognition; depression; decision making; health promotion; green spaces; mental health; natural exposure; physical exercise; psychiatry; stress.

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish an original research article or review paper free of charge before 30 June 2023;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Brain Sciences 2022 Young Investigator Award are Dr. Dibyadeep Datta, Dr. Giacomo Valle and Dr. Morgan H James.

Dr. Dibyadeep Datta is an Associate Research Scientist of the Department of Neuroscience at Yale Medical School, New Haven, USA. His overarching research focus is to elucidate the molecular alterations and understand the etiology underlying the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders that contribute to cognitive dysfunction. Dr. Datta has funded by the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Pilot Project Award and the American Federation on Aging Research/Diamond Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellowship, among others.

Dr. Giacomo Valle is a Post-Doctoral Researcher of the Deparment of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests are in neuroengineering and computational models: neuroprostheses in animal and human models for peripheral stimulation of the nervous system in order to restore sensory feedback, and to understand the somatosensory processing and the neural control of movements. Dr. Valle has recently won several awards, including the Sir Henry Royce Medal 2021 IET Achievement Award, the FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2022, the European Entrepreneurship Robotics Award 2021, the NCCR Grassroot Research Proposals 2021 (17kchf), and many more. Dr. Valle was also nominated as an ETH Zurich Ambassador and was among the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science in 2021.

Dr. Morgan H James is a young investigator leading a translational neuroscience laboratory at Rutgers University. He focuses on the orexin system and addiction, examining this system from both a mechanistic and drug-development perspective. Dr. James is also interested in characterizing the involvement of the orexin system in dysregulated eating, using animal models of binge eating disorder and ‘food addiction’. Dr. James has served as a Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of several journals. His Hirsch index is 24 and his papers have attracted >2000 citations. His lab is funded by several extramural and intramural awards, including a NIDA K99/R00 Transition to Independence Award.

The awardees will receive an honorarium of CHF 1500, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 30 September 2022 in Brain Sciences, following peerreview, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation, and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Brain Sciences Travel Award for 2022 was granted to the following two applicants in recognition of their highly regarded work:

Dr. Roberta Bettoni, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of Milano Bicocca; and Mr. Liloia Donato, Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology, University of Turin. They will each receive CHF 800, which will assist in covering the cost for their attendence at international conferences in 2022.

Dr. Roberta Bettoni intends to present his work, entitled “The time-course of visual rule learning in preverbal infants: evidence from neural entrainment”, at the International Conference on Infant Study (ICIS).

Mr. Liloia Donato will present his research, entitled “Finding the Selectivity of Neuroanatomical Aberration in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Reverse Inference”, at the OHBM 2022 Annual Meeting.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of Brain Sciences, we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dr. Robert Kelly
Prof. Dr. Heather Bortfeld
Prof. Dr. Sergey Kasparov
Dr. Mark Burke
Dr. Andrew Clarkson
The members of the Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2021 Best Cover Award. In total, 12 cover stories published in 2021 in Brain Sciences were considered for these awards. The winners are as follows:

Brain Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 4 (April 2021)
Brain Molecular Connectivity in Neurodegenerative Conditions
(Doi: 10.3390/brainsci11040433)

Brain Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 7 (July 2021)
Mapping of Motor Function with Neuronavigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Review on Clinical Application in Brain Tumors and Methods for Ensuring Feasible Accuracy
(Doi: 10.3390/brainsci11070897)

The winners of the Brain Sciences 2021 Best Cover Award, in no particular order, will receive CHF 100 each and be able to publish one paper free of charge by 31 December 2023.

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research!

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Brain Sciences, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for three PhD students or recently qualified PhD who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:
“CYP2D in the Brain Alters Response to Drugs and Neurotoxins”, by Dr. Marlaina R. Stocco, University of California, USA;

“Neural Encoding of Prior Experience in Sensorimotor Behavior”, by Dr. Nicolas Meirhaeghe, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille, France;

“Perinatal Stem Cell: Epigenetic, Biological and Differentiative Characteristics”, by Dr. Giulia Gaggi, University "G.D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Brain Sciences in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Brain Sciences were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney, have been selected.

One Review Article:

Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
By Olalla Sáiz-Vazquez, Alicia Puente-Martínez, Silvia Ubillos-Landa, Joaquín Pacheco-Bonrostro and Javier Santabárbara
Brain Sci. 2020, 10(6), 386; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060386

One Research Article:

Psychosocial and Behavioral Impact of COVID-19 in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Online Parent Survey
By Marco Colizzi, Elena Sironi, Federico Antonini, Marco Luigi Ciceri, Chiara Bovo and Leonardo Zoccante
Brain Sci. 2020, 10(6), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060341

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a certificate.

We would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Brain Sciences and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Brain Sciences Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to thank all our reviewers for the time and energy they have devoted to checking the manuscripts submitted to Brain Sciences. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround have been maintained.

Based on the timeliness, quality, and speed of their review reports, three reviewers have been chosen to receive Brain Sciences 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards:

– Dr. Craig D. Workman, Department of Health and Human Physiology, N418 Field House, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

– Dr. Vivian Ciaramitaro, Department of Psychology, Developmental and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA

– Prof. Dr. Yang Zhang, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences & Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Each of them will receive the following:

– A certificate;

– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);

– Opportunities to publish papers as the first or corresponding author with a 50% discount (no quantity limit) before 31 July 2021.

We thank them for their efforts in the review process. In addition, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all our reviewers for their time and dedication in 2020.

If you are interested in reviewing articles for Brain Sciences, please register your contact details, including your ORCID identifier, institutional affiliation, a short CV, and 5–6 keywords in line with your expertise at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer/step/1.

The managing editors will send you a notification once approved.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards. In total, 24 cover stories published from 2019 to 2020 in Brain Sciences were considered for these awards. The winners are as follows:

Brain Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 7 (July 2020)
Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Pediatric Cancer and Its Treatment: The Role of Sleep
Doi: 10.3390/brainsci10070411

Brain Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 12 (December 2020)
Dysregulated Wnt Signalling in the Alzheimer’s Brain
Doi: 10.3390/brainsci10120902

Brain Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2019)
Ethanol Conditioned Taste Aversion in High Drinking in the Dark Mice
Doi: 10.3390/brainsci9010002

Brain Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2020)
Current Therapeutic Strategies for Glioblastoma
Doi: 10.3390/brainsci10010015

The winners of the “Brain Sciences 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards”, in no particular order, will receive 100 CHF each and be able to publish one paper free of charge by 31 December 2021.

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research!

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The Brain Sciences editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2020 Best Paper Awards. The winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Office, were the most cited:

Title: Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Links to Anxiety and Depression

DOI:10.3390/brainsci9040076

Authors: Katherine S. Young, Christina F. Sandman and Michelle G. Craske

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/4/76

Title: Upregulation of IL-1 Receptor Antagonist in a Mouse Model of Migraine

DOI:10.3390/brainsci9070172

Authors: Salvo Danilo Lombardo, Emanuela Mazzon, Maria Sofia Basile, Eugenio Cavalli, Placido Bramanti, Riccardo Nania, Paolo Fagone, Ferdinando Nicolett and Maria Cristina Petralia

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/7/172

Title: Glioblastoma under Siege: An Overview of Current Therapeutic Strategies

DOI:10.3390/brainsci8010015

Authors: Mayra Paolillo, Cinzia Boselli and Sergio Schinelli

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/8/1/15

Title: Intensity of Multilingual Language Use Predicts Cognitive Performance in Some Multilingual Older Adults

DOI:10.3390/brainsci8050092

Authors: Anna Pot, Merel Keijzer and Kees De Bot

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/8/5/92

We congratulate the authors and thank them for choosing Brain Sciences to publish their work. In recognition of their accomplishment, each winner will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate. All the original research papers and review articles published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 were eligible for consideration.

About Brain Sciences:

Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425; CODEN: BSRCCS) is an international peer reviewed open access journal on neuroscience published monthly online by MDPI. Brain Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE-Web of Science), Scopus and other databases. Citations are available in PubMed, and the full text archived in PubMed Central.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Brain Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award are Professor Rickie Patani, Dr. Olivia Gosseries and Dr. Francesco Bartoli.

Professor Rickie Patani is a physician scientist with over a decade of direct experience working on human induced pluripotent stem cell models of neurodegeneration. Rickie’s lab focuses specifically on the themes of RNA metabolism and cellular autonomy in motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS).

Dr. Olivia Gosseries is a neuropsychologist, research associate at F.R.S-FNRS and co-director of the Coma Science Group, University of Liège (Belgium). She studies pathological, physiological and pharmacological modifications of consciousness using behavioural assessments and imaging technologies. Her work focuses on diagnosis, prognosis and treatments in patients with disorders of consciousness after recovering from a coma.

Dr. Francesco Bartoli is a General Adult Psychiatrist (since 2018) and Assistant Professor (since July 2020) at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He has a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2012). He has led several research projects in recent years on biomarkers of severe mental disorders, psychopharmacology and the comorbidity between mental and substance use disorders. He has authored 89 studies published in international journals indexed in Scopus, mostly acting as the first author.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their careful evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

The Brain Sciences editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the 2019 Best Paper Award. The winning paper, which was nominated by the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial office, was the most cited in 2019:

Title: Brain–Computer Interface Spellers: A Review
doi:10.3390/brainsci8040057
Authors: Aya Rezeika, Mihaly Benda, Piotr Stawicki, Felix Gembler, Abdul Saboor and Ivan Volosyak *
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/8/4/57

We congratulate the authors and thank them for choosing Brain Sciences to publish their work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the winner will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate. All the original research papers and review articles published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 were eligible for consideration.

About Brain Sciences:

Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425; CODEN: BSRCCS) is an international peerreviewed Open Access journal on neuroscience published monthly online by MDPI. Brain Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE— Web of Science), Scopus and other databases. Citations available in PubMed, full-text archived in PubMed Central.

Dear Colleagues,

The Brain Sciences Editorial Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in assessing the manuscripts submitted to the journal. With their support, many high-quality, interesting papers have been published in Brain Sciences and a quick peer review process has been maintained.

The following reviewer has been selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Office of Brain Sciences to be awarded the “2019 Brain Sciences Outstanding Reviewer” award for the quantity, timeliness and quality of his reviews in 2019. she will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate for his outstanding review work:

Dr. Sara Invitto
Human Anatomy and Neuroscience Lab, DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

About Brain Sciences:

Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425; CODEN: BSRCCS) is an international peerreviewed Open Access journal on neuroscience published monthly online by MDPI. Brain Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE— Web of Science), Scopus and other databases. Citations available in PubMed, full-text archived in PubMed Central.

Dear Colleagues,

All the applications were evaluated by Evaluation Committee members, who ranked the applicants according to their CV and scholarly achievements, their research, the significance of the conference, and their career aspirations. On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief of Brain Sciences, Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Brain Sciences 2019 Travel Awards:

Stephanie Schultz, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (United States). Her current research focuses on implementing emerging biomarkers, including first- and second-generation tau PET ligands and blood-based neurodegeneration markers, to study the relationship between lifestyle factors and brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Katalin Bartus, from King’s College London (UK). Her current research centers on spontaneous repair processes and determining their underlying molecular mechanisms to develop new treatment strategies for spinal cord injury.

We congratulate them on their excellent work and would further like to thank all applicants for their interesting and high-quality contributions. We also wish to thank the Evaluation Committee members for their evaluation of the candidates.

Brain Sciences Editorial Office

The Brain Sciences editorial team would like to congratulate the winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award. The winning paper, which was nominated by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor-in-Chief, was the most cited in 2018:

Title: Multiple Sclerosis: Immunopathology and Treatment Update
Authors: Narges Dargahi, Maria Katsara, Theodore Tselios, Maria-Eleni Androutsou, Maximilian De Courten, John Matsoukas and Vasso Apostolopoulos
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/7/7/78
Doi:10.3390/brainsci7070078

We congratulate the authors and thank them for choosing Brain Sciences to publish their work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the winner will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate. All the original research papers and review articles published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017 were eligible for consideration.

Please download the PDF here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/7/7/78

The Brain Sciences Editorial Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in assessing the manuscripts submitted to the journal. With their support, many high-quality, interesting papers have been published in Brain Sciences and a quick peer review process has been maintained.

The following reviewer has been selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Office of Brain Sciences to be awarded the “2018 Brain Sciences Outstanding Reviewer” award for the quantity, timeliness and quality of his reviews in 2018. He will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a free publication (valued at 850 Swiss Francs) for his outstanding review work:

Prof. Gianluca Serafini
Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Genetics, and Infant-Maternal Science, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Kind regards,
Brain Sciences Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

An exciting new initiative launched this year by Brain Sciences is the establishment of two Travel Awards to assist a Junior Researcher and a PhD student to attend a relevant conference. Over 56 eligible applications, from Europe, USA, Canada and Australia, were evaluated by an international panel of experts, who ranked the applicants according to their CV and scholarly achievements, their research, the significance of the conference, and their career aspirations. Selecting the award winners from the two highly competitive fields was very difficult, and so it is a great pleasure for me to announce the worthy winners of the inaugural Brain Sciences Travel Awards:

• The Junior Research Award winner is Dr Anna-Sophia Wahl of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), who will attend the the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting in Washington, USA in November 2017.
• The PhD Award winner is Simon Morand-Beaulieu of the University of Montreal (Canada), who will attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2018 Annual Meeting in Boston, USA in March 2018.
Stephen D. Meriney

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

An exciting new initiative launched this year by Brain Sciences is the establishment of the Brain Sciences Outstanding Reviewer Award. It is given to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Brain Sciences in 2017. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The recipient was chosen by the Brain Sciences Editorial Team, Paul Friedemann, who will receive a certificate and CHF 500. The Brain Sciences Editorial Team is deeply grateful to all the reviewers for the time, energy and devotion that they have given to peer-reviews.

It is our great pleasure to announce the winner: Friedemann Paul, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany