What is this collection about?

Psychiatric disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain circuits rather than isolated brain regions. Advances in functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology, computational modelling, machine learning and multimodal data integration are enabling researchers to characterise brain networks across health and disease. This Collection seeks research on functional connectivity alterations across psychiatric disorders, network-level mechanisms, connectivity biomarkers, multimodal imaging studies, developmental changes in brain networks, intervention effects and computational methods. Original research, Reviews and Perspectives are welcome.

Why is this collection important?

Understanding how brain networks function and become disrupted is essential for improving the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. By bringing together studies that span fundamental circuit mechanisms through to clinical applications, this Collection highlights a rapidly evolving area at the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry and data science. We are excited by the potential of emerging analytical approaches, multimodal datasets and computational tools to deliver new insights into mental health. This multi-journal Collection also supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being.

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Communications Biology is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members.

Guest Editors for Communications Biology: 

Sahar Ahmad, PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 

Dr. Sahar Ahmad is a Research Instructor within the Department of Radiology at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Her research integrates neuroimaging, computational methods, and developmental neuroscience to capture the dynamic and multiscale changes occurring in the human brain across the lifespan.

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD, University of Bordeaux, France 

Dr. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten received his PhD from la Sorbonne in Paris for his work on spatial neglect as a disconnection syndrome. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry King's College London, he mapped the organisation of white matter anatomy in the healthy human living brain. Michel joined the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a tenure- track researcher in 2012 and founded the BCBlab. He now conducts research on white matter anatomy, brain evolution, brain disconnections and new brain-behaviour associations. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious British Neuropsychological Society's Early Career Award, the Elizabeth Warrington Prize as well as the European Society for Neuropsychology Cortex prize.

Bo-yong Park, PhD, Korea University, Republic of Korea 

Dr. Bo-yong Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering at Korea University. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and completed his postdoctoral training at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University. His research focuses on multimodal neuroimaging and computational neuroscience, with an emphasis on developing computational methods for MRI analysis and translating them into clinically relevant applications for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.

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