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

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neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

, founded in 1878 by

John Charles Bucknill Sir John Charles Bucknill (25 December 1817 – 19 July 1897) was an English psychiatrist and mental health reformer. He was the father of judge Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill QC MP. Biography Bucknill was born in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire ...

David Ferrier Sir David Ferrier FRS (13 January 1843 – 19 March 1928) was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist. Ferrier conducted experiments on the brains of animals such as monkeys and in 1881 became the first scientist to be prosecuted ...

, 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 s ...

. It is published by

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. The journal was edited by

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

from 1997 to 2004, Alastair Compston (

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

) 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 Squ ...

(UCL) until 2021. The current

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is Masud Husain (

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 15.255.

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