''Brain Research'' is a

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focusing on several aspects of

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. It publishes research reports and " minireviews". The

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is Matthew J. LaVoie (

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). Until 2011, full reviews were published in ''Brain Research Reviews'', which is now integrated into the main section, albeit with independent volume numbering. In 2006, four other previously established semi-independent journal sections ('' Cognitive Brain Research, Developmental Brain Research, Molecular Brain Research,'' and '' Brain Research Protocols'') were merged with ''Brain Research''. The journal has nine main subsections: * ''Cellular and Molecular Systems'' * ''Nervous System Development, Regeneration and Aging'' * ''Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology and other forms of Intercellular Communication'' * ''Structural Organization of the Brain'' * ''Sensory and Motor Systems'' * ''Regulatory Systems'' * ''Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience'' * ''Disease-Related Neuroscience'' * ''Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience'' According to the ''

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'', the journal's 2020

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is 3.252.

Abstracting and indexing

''Brain Research'' is abstracted and indexed in:

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References

{{reflist Neuroscience journals Elsevier academic journals English-language journals Journals more frequent than weekly Publications established in 1966