Call for paper - Special Issue on "Novel Techniques for Visualizing and Manipulating Neural Plasticity"

 Dear friends, 

 I am writing to let you know about the upcoming Special Issue on "Novel Techniques for Visualizing and Manipulating Neural Plasticity," which I am the leading guest editor. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to develop and utilize novel technologies to understand and modulate brain plasticity. The presented techniques shall be strictly applied to neural plasticity study.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Novel recording and imaging techniques to facilitate the study of plasticity mechanisms, including nanosensing techniques, CMOS-biosensors, and imaging and image processing methods, to visualize neural plasticity from synaptic-level activity to the whole brain functional connectivity
• Novel manipulation techniques to modify and probe the neural plasticity, including nano actuating techniques, microfluidic platforms and new material and substrates for cell culture and cell stimulation

This special issue will be published in Neural Plasticity in July 2016. You can find the Call for Papers for this Special Issue at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/si/350149/cfp/ and the deadline for submission is 4th March 2016. The Special Issue is open to both original research articles as well as review articles. Briefly about the journal, the most recent Impact Factor for Neural Plasticity is 3.582 according to 2014 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters in mid 2015.

While it’s true that most of the time we all aim for publication in the top journals, I’d like to invite you to consider submitting your excellent work to this special issue, which has a more efficient peer-review process!

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this Special Issue or about the journal. 

Best regards,

-Nan

Nan Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Jasanoff LaboratoryDept. of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-253-0989 | MIT 56-638
Email: nli9@mit.edu