The goal of this special issue is to highlight recent advances in brain-body imaging. Brain network analysis has resulted in a major paradigm shift in neuroscience; however, the true function of these networks is not simply to facilitate communication between brain areas but to support brain-body-environment interactions. The brain and spinal cord are interwoven with the body and interact through the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems with other organ systems. This special issue will focus on mapping the pathways that regulate brain-body interactions and allow to sense and control one’s body and interact with the environment. Various types of interactions, e.g., brain-gut, brain-heart and brain-muscle, and imaging modalities, e.g., functional, diffusion and structural MRI, MEG, EEG and peripheral electrophysiology, as well novel computational and analytic approaches and clinical studies mapping disruption in brain-body interactions will be covered.
The Special Issue will comprise invited as well as unsolicited papers. Pre-submission inquiries are welcome: please contact any of the Guest Editors with questions.
All papers will be subject to peer review and must comply with the Guide for Authors.