Elsevier launches new neuroscience journal

Elsevier has announced the launch of a new medical journal dedicated to cognitive neuroscience in the coming months.

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is to be a new quarterly publication from the medical information specialist, including research papers on brain development from childhood through to old age.

Its content will relate to neurocognitive development and processing, electrophysiology and typical and atypical brain development, with a number of international experts in the field serving as the journal's editors.

Articles from the publication have already been made available via Elsevier's SciVerse ScienceDirect service, while print copies of the first issue will be distributed at the Society for Neuroscience's 40th annual meeting in November 2010.

Professor Daniel Pine, one of the editors of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, expressed excitement over "the opportunities for this journal to contribute to the growth and maturation of the rapidly emerging field".

Last month, Elsevier's established journals the Color Atlas of Clinical Hematology and Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine were among the winners at the BMA Medical Book Competition in London.