Behavioral and Brain Functions

Featured article: Attention deficits in HIV-infected patients

HIV-infected patients exhibited less efficient alerting and executive control compared to healthy controls. The link between lower CD4 T cell count and poorer attention network function implies the importance of starting antiretroviral therapy earlier to avoid irreversible neurocognitive impairment.

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Aims and scope

Behavioral and Brain Functions (BBF) is an open-access journal that welcomes manuscripts that provide insight into behavior and brain function or dysfunction, giving priority to manuscripts that combine both neurobiology and behavior.

Journal Sections

BBF publishes in the following sections:

Attention, learning and behavior: Animal studies, edited by Ashok Kumar
Attention, learning and behavior: Human studies, edited by Lucina Uddin
Behavioral neurogenetics and epigenetics, edited by Frank Middleton
Cellular and molecular mechanisms, edited by Yogesh Dwivedi
Computational and neural network modeling, edited by Yasser Roudi
Neurobiology of brain disorders, edited by Matthew Sutherland

Behavioral and Brain Functions is a member of the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium. The Consortium is an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to accept manuscript reviews from each other. If you submit a revision of your manuscript to another Consortium journal, we can forward the reviews of your manuscript to that journal, should you decide this might be helpful.

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