A View from the Editor’s desk

Prof Masud Husain

Editor-in-Chief, Brain & Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

Wednesday 26th October, 16:00-17:00

Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the foyer

Publishing is changing, with competition for selection increasing and new challenges on the horizon. Masud will be providing an Editor’s perspective on:

What the editorial team at Brain is looking for in submitted manuscripts
Factors common to submissions that don’t succeed
How the review process works
Statistics on submissions and manuscript flows
Current trends and gaps in translational neuroscience
New initiatives at Brain

Masud Husain is Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. He works across departments of neuroscience, brain imaging and experimental psychology to understand cognitive functions in health and disease.

Masud studied Medicine at Oxford and was a Harkness Fellow at MIT, before holding positions at Imperial College and becoming Professor of Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, UCL and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London.

At Oxford, he leads a research group which focuses on understanding motivation and memory in healthy people and patients with neurodegenerative conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, small vessel cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Masud holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and leads the Neurological Conditions theme of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. He is Editor-in-Chief of Brain.

Please send enquiries to: a.gent@ucl.ac.uk