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Focus and Scope

Archives Italiennes de Biologie - a Journal of Neuroscience- was founded in 1882 and represents one of the oldest neuroscience journals in the world. Archives publishes original contributions in all the fields of neuroscience, including neurophysiology, experimental neuroanatomy and electron microscopy, neurobiology, neurochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, functional brain imaging and behavioral science.
Archives Italiennes de Biologie also publishes monographic special issues that collect papers on a specific topic of interest in neuroscience as well as the proceedings of important scientific events.
Archives Italiennes de Biologie is published in 4 issues per year and is indexed in the major collections of biomedical journals, including Medline, PubMed, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica.

 

Section Policies

Research Articles

Reporting results of original research. The major part of each issue will be comprised of original full-length papers.

Editors
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Short Communications

Reporting on research in progress

Editors
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Review Articles

Discussing current developments of interest to neuroscientists, both as stand alone manuscript and as occasional special issues.

Editors
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Book Review

Discussing publications of general interest to neuroscientists

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Historical Note

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Editorial

Editors
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Special Issue - Brain Plasticity and Recovery: Basic and Clinical Evidence

Editors
  • Carmelo Chisari
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Special Issue - AIMS 2014

Editors
  • Ugo Faraguna
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Special Issue - How physical exercise and oxidative stress could affect brain metabolism and function

Editors
  • Ugo Faraguna
  • Ferdinando Franzoni
  • Emiliano Ricciardi
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Special Issue - Crossing the watershed between sleep and wakefulness

Crossing the watershed between sleep and wakefulness: recent advances in neural and cognitive processing during sleep and intermediary sleep-wake states

Editors
  • Ugo Faraguna
  • Umberto Olcese
  • Lucia Talamini
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Readers without a subscription may still purchase individual articles. The following payment options and fees are available.

Article Pay-Per-View: 10.00 (EUR)

The payment of this fee will enable you to view, download, and print this article.

 

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