Neuroscience
17 Feb 2017
Alcohol and problems remembering: can caffeine help?
Recent study challenges the view that the negative side effects of these drugs can be cancelled out when they are taken together
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Life sciences
15 Feb 2017
Are drones disturbing marine mammals?
Is noise pollution by drones interfering with marine wildlife research?
Neuroscience
13 Feb 2017
Prebiotics may help to cope with stress
Recent study shows prebiotic fibers can help to protect beneficial gut bacteria and restore healthy sleep patterns after a stressful event.
Neuroscience
10 Feb 2017
Pushing the Frontiers of Synaptic Neuroscience – an interview
Interview discusses aspirations for Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience and a vision for the field.
Psychology
10 Feb 2017
We like taking selfies but not looking at them
The selfie paradox: taking selfies is hugely popular, yet most people would prefer fewer selfies on social media.
Neuroscience
10 Feb 2017
Brain damage is not always damaging
This case report documents the extraordinary resilience of a woman in Argentina who endured multiple strokes.
Life sciences
07 Feb 2017
Your input: reproducibility in ethno-pharmacology
The issue of reproducibility is becoming more prominent across all sciences, not least in life sciences.
Health
01 Feb 2017
Females no longer neglected in obesity research
Scientists revise the typical use of male rats and point to sex-differences that can drastically change how we approach obesity in females.
Life sciences
31 Jan 2017
High altitude living decreases the risk of heart disease
This new research links living at high altitudes and the risk to initially healthy people developing all the criteria that make up the Metabolic Syndrome.
Neuroscience
30 Jan 2017
A way out of the junk-food eating cycle
Study shows that junk-food is habit-forming in rats – but that the habit could easily be broken by pairing it with the right environmental cues.
Humanities
30 Jan 2017
Section on assessment methods for education open for submissions
Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement is the new specialty section in Frontiers in Education, led by Professor Gavin Brown
Psychology
24 Jan 2017
Where belief in free will is linked to happiness
Researchers show that the phenomenon, previously seen in Western populations, also occurs in Chinese teenagers, and can cross cultural divides
Life sciences
13 Jan 2017
Professor Cheng wins innovation award for startup
Frontiers Editor’s startup Yiviva, developing therapeutics inspired by botanical medicines, wins Innovation Award at the USA-China Health Summit
Health
10 Jan 2017
Frontiers in Medicine launches a new specialty section – Infectious Diseases
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Marc Struelens will be leading our new specialty section in Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Public Health: Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment. Given the intertwined nature of the public health and medical community when it comes to infectious diseases, we felt that a combined editorial board will best serve both communities to provide the highest quality peer review for our authors. A former president of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Prof. Struelens is currently Chief Microbiologist at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and Professor of Medical Microbiology at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Prof. Struelens has extensive experience and publication record in microbiology, infectious diseases and public health. He has chaired the Belgian Infection Control Society and the European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers in addition to being a member of national and international advisory boards in the field of infectious diseases. Describing his vision for this specialty section, Prof. Struelens states: “I would like to provide a respected and interactive forum where medical researchers publish and contextualize research advances on determinants of human infections, at patient and population levels, and translate this knowledge into innovative […]
Life sciences
06 Jan 2017
Dynamical Systems new specialty section
Dynamical Systems is a new specialty section available through the community-driven open-access journal Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Led by Specialty Chief Editor Axel Hutt , senior researcher at the German Weather Service in Offenbach, Germany, the primary objective of this section is to provide a channel of communication among mathematicians, applied scientists and practitioners interested in the theory, methods and applications of dynamical systems and their use to model the time evolution of real systems. The goal is to bring together, in one open-access journal, high quality papers on every aspect of this multidisciplinary field of sciences. We bring particular emphasis on qualitative and global analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems and related phenomena, with applications in physics, biology, engineering, social sciences, among others. The editors consider that a qualitative theory of dynamical systems, with the related concepts of stability, bifurcations, attractors, is nowadays more and more widely used for the description, prediction and control of real world processes. With this in mind, they define the scope of section as to provide a focus and catalyst for the dissemination and cross-fertilization of new ideas, principles, methodologies and techniques in the framework of the theory of dynamical systems, across a broad interdisciplinary front. […]