''Brain: A Journal of Neurology'' is a

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of neurology, founded in 1878 by John Charles Bucknill, David Ferrier, James Crichton-Browne and

John Hughlings Jackson John Hughlings Jackson, FRS (4 April 1835 – 7 October 1911) was an English neurologist. He is best known for his research on epilepsy. Biography He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest so ...

. It is published by Oxford University Press. The journal was edited by

John Newsom-Davis John Michael Newsom-Davis (18 October 1932 – 24 August 2007) was a neurologist who played an important role in the discovery of the causes of, and treatments for, ''Myasthenia gravis'', and of other diseases of the nerve-muscle junction, ...

from 1997 to 2004,

Alastair Compston David Alastair Standish Compston (born 23 January 1948 ) is Emeritus professor of Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Education Compston was ed ...

( Cambridge University) until 2013, and

Dimitri Kullmann Dimitri Michael Kullmann (born 1958) is a professor of neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), and leads the synaptopathies initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust. Kullmann is a member of the Queen Squar ...

(UCL) until 2021. The current editor-in-chief is Masud Husain ( University of Oxford). According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 15.255.

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