《神經(jīng)科學(xué)前沿》是該領(lǐng)域的領(lǐng)軍期刊，發(fā)表了廣泛的專業(yè)和學(xué)科的同行評審研究。耶路撒冷希伯來大學(xué)的現(xiàn)場總編輯伊丹·塞格夫得到了一個杰出的國際研究人員編輯委員會的支持。這本多學(xué)科開放獲取期刊是向研究人員、學(xué)者、臨床醫(yī)生和全世界公眾傳播和交流科學(xué)知識和有影響力的發(fā)現(xiàn)的前沿。這是大腦研究的歷史時期——也就是大腦本身。新的分子和光學(xué)技術(shù)的融合為“因果神經(jīng)科學(xué)”的時代鋪平了道路，在這一時代，構(gòu)成所研究系統(tǒng)的數(shù)千個細(xì)胞可以以一種非常特殊的方式（例如通過“光遺傳學(xué)”）進(jìn)行記錄和操作，以及這些操作在體內(nèi)的行為和功能后果。這也是一個“解剖神經(jīng)科學(xué)”的新時代——正如最近發(fā)展的技術(shù)，無論是在整個大腦層面（“連接體”），局部回路和突觸層面（“連接體”）都得到了更廣泛的應(yīng)用。這些方法使我們能夠?qū)⑻囟ù竽X區(qū)域的結(jié)構(gòu)和局部電路聯(lián)系起來，從而更加敏銳地發(fā)揮作用。最近出現(xiàn)了新的研究領(lǐng)域，如“神經(jīng)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)”和“神經(jīng)能量學(xué)”。此外，而且，至關(guān)重要的是，在我們的信息生成世界中，正在開發(fā)基于信息學(xué)的新方法，以系統(tǒng)地存儲大量新的“大數(shù)據(jù)”，用于數(shù)據(jù)保存、數(shù)據(jù)挖掘和提取關(guān)鍵信息。從這些數(shù)據(jù)中。而且，重要的是，理論和計算方法正在開發(fā)中，以整合這些不同的數(shù)據(jù)，并推導(dǎo)出可能隱藏在錯綜復(fù)雜的大腦回路中的大腦操作原理。隨著該領(lǐng)域的快速發(fā)展，我們試圖整合和交叉鏈接相關(guān)子領(lǐng)域的研究和引文，概述這些領(lǐng)域的最新技術(shù)及其相互補(bǔ)充的方式。畢竟，我們每個人都可能從特定的角度看待大腦——從“基因”到行為——然而大腦無縫地整合了所有這些層面；這本雜志應(yīng)該以最好的方式反映這一點(diǎn)。

Frontiers in Neuroscience is a leading journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across a wide spectrum of specialties and disciplines. Field Chief Editor Idan Segev at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide.These are historical times for brain research - namely for the Brain itself. The convergence of novel molecular and optical techniques paves the way to the era of "causation neuroscience," whereby many thousands of cells composing the system studied can be recorded from and manipulated in a very specific manner (e.g. via "optogenetics") and the behavioral and functional consequences of these manipulations explored in vivo. It is also a new era of "anatomical neuroscience" - as recently developed techniques, both at the whole-brain level ("connectome") and the local circuit and synaptic level ("connectomics") become more widely used. These approaches allow us to link structure of specific brain regions and local circuits to function more astutely. New research fields have recently emerged, e.g. "neuroeconomics" and "neuroenergetics." In addition, and critically, in our information-generating world, new informatics-based methods are being developed to store the enormous amount of new “big data” in a systematic manner, for data-preservation, data-mining and for extracting key information from these data. And, importantly, theoretical and computational approaches are being developed for integrating this diverse data and for deriving principles of brain operations that may otherwise lie hidden within the intricacies of brain circuits.As the field is growing fast, we seek to integrate and cross-link studies and citations in related subfields, providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in these fields and the ways in which they complement each other. After all, we may each of us look at the brain from particular standpoints - all the way from "genes to behavior" - yet the brain integrates all these levels seamlessly; this journal should reflect this in the best possible way.