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Brain and Cognition

Article commentary

18 December 2018

Systematic review and meta-analysis of age-related differences in instructed emotion regulation success

Brooke Brady, Ian I. Kneebone, Nida Denson, Phoebe E. Bailey

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Bob Patton –– A useful review on an important issue

10 December 2018

Behavior problems and personality in Korean high school students

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Ada Zohar –– This study presents the growth over adolescence of behavioral problems and temperament and character in a way which illustrates the central importance of personality to psychopathology, at a period of intense change and development.

30 November 2018

A single Spanish version of maternal and paternal postnatal attachment scales: validation and conceptual analysis

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Antonio Palazón-Bru –– A paper to determine that the Spanish version of this test is useful for clinical practice.

30 November 2018

Assessing distinct patterns of cognitive aging using tissue-specific brain age prediction based on diffusion tensor imaging and brain morphometry

Section Editor rating: 8 / 10

Stephen Macknik –– The editor and reviewers are enthusiastic.

23 November 2018

Serum lipid level is not associated with symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Jafri Abdullah –– There are positive and negative studies and the association to ICH is an imortant information in the preventive area,

23 November 2018

Not all brawn, but some brain. Strength gains after training alters kinematic motor abundance in hopping

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Mario Negrello –– This article advances of our understanding of motor synergies with a well quantified case of motor abundance, clear methods and meaningful results. It uses uncontrolled manifold analysis (UCM) to model and quantify motor abundance, and provides support for the interesting idea that neural systems help shape motor abundance.

16 November 2018

Serotonin 5-HT_1A receptor binding and self-transcendence in healthy control subjects—a replication study using Bayesian hypothesis testing

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Kevin Black –– The authors do real science here, following up on an initial finding from a pilot study and reporting the outcome appropriately. That may sound obvious, but in the real world of research these days it is a delightful breath of fresh hair.

Clustering of fMRI data: the elusive optimal number of clusters

Editor rating: 9 / 10

Jafri Abdullah –– the number of clusters have always been debatable,

21 September 2018

Does Twitter language reliably predict heart disease? A commentary on Eichstaedt et al. (2015a)

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Tjeerd Boonstra –– The article re-examines the results of an influential paper and challenges the idea that social media data analysed on a county-level may provide a reliable predictor of health outcomes. The authors raise several questions on the reliability of data and study design that need to be addressed for this field going forward.

12 September 2018

Explanation of observational data engenders a causal belief about smoking and cancer

Section Editor rating: 7 / 10

Claire Fletcher-Flinn –– I agree with the reviewers comments re causality.

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Academic Editors

Average h-index of Editorial Board: 39

Abdullah

Kubke

Coyne

Kronfol

Collingridge

Mechelli

Damasio

Lasmezas

van Os

Perry

Soares

Holstein

Giugliano

Ben-Ari

Wisden

Morrison

Kowall

Vezzani