Molecular Neurobiology

In this special issue, we invite the scientific community to submit original research papers, reviews, meta-analyses, etc pertaining to the molecular mechanisms of neurologic and psychiatric diseases with emphasis on infectious microbes (the pathobiota) and/or the alterations to the microbiota that may lead to these disease states

The neurosciences field has particularly suffered from a bias toward using male animals. Sex continues to be largely ignored in preclinical studies, and biological sex is rarely taken in consideration when making treatment decisions in neurological disorders.

For this reason, we are calling for papers focused on molecular mechanisms underlying sex differences in healthy and diseased brain. We strongly believe that better understanding of these differences will help in generating diagnostic and therapeutic strategies optimal for each sex. These contributions will be included in our Special Issue “Sex and gender differences in neurological disorders”.